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Now that it's winding down, I'm gonna jump out of LurkMode and
say: this "Cussin' On Stage" thread has been one of the lamest
I've seen in my years on  this List.

Way I get it (I wasn't there), this Earle person said, from
stage,  something like "This McCoury kid is one m!therf!cker
of a banjo player!"  Now, in the circles in which I travel
(note grammar), that would be understood as a straightforward
endorsement of highest prase, stated in the parking-lot
vernacular.

Fact 1: Dirty words ain't what they used to be.  These days, you can
hear junior high school girls using language that woulda made a sailor
blush Back When.  Filth drips from children's lips as easily as dew
from the morning rose.

Fact 2: Anybody who thinks Their Child is gonna be Corrupted by witnessing
an Earle-like episode is living in a dream world.  They're the folks who
think that kids never heard of s-x until dad-or-mom took 'em aside and
(with due embarrassment) explained about penia and vulvae and all that stuff.
Hey Folks! The average kid (including Yours) can overwhelm you in the first
round of a dirty-talk contest.

Fact 3: Dirty talk has it place, but the bluegrass stage isn't one of them.
This isn't a matter of Corrupting The Youth; it's a matter of what's proper
for the venue.  In a bluegrass show, risque humor is OK, blue humor is not.
Anybody who doesn't understand the difference doesn't belong on the stage.

Fact 4: Earle's phrase (if I have it right) is not in the same category
with the eruptions of the Dice Clay bunch.  Them guys make their living
with grown-up versions of the grade school lavatory snickers we all used
to engage in.  They talk filthy for the sake of talking filthy, knowing it
will get a laugh whether it's funny or not.  Earle was just saying what
your average bluegrass-loving lumberjack would have said out in the
parking lot.  He wasn't pushing filth, just using the vulgar vernacular
to express his endorsement.

Fact 5: Anybody who circumscribes their social activities by whether or not
they might hear dirty words, will eventually need to move to the fabled
Peak in Darien or someplace even more remote.

Fact 6: Somebody needs to take the Earle person aside and convince him that
parking-lot vernacular is not going to earn him a big following in the
bluegrass world.  In other words: clean up that mouth.

Fact 7:  The bluegrass world is NOT populated by mostly
puritanical blue-noses. Most of us can cuss with the best of
them...when the occasion calls for it. That doesn't mean we're
willing to filth-out at every opportunity.

Fact 8: Now everbody siddown and shuddup already.  This topic done
been milked dry.


Bangster
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