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Old 02-03-2015, 11:00 AM   #13
Hamlet53
Nameless Being
 
Really getting off topic I guess, but I always thought that the folk band The Mother Folkers were very clever in the choice of their name. As their web site says a name that music radio announcers must pronounce with great care.

That reminds me of something from a few years back. I had put in a request to the person who at the time ran the Sunday night radio program Simply Folk broadcast throughout the Wisconsin on public radio that the song Working Class Hero (by John Lennon, warning the F word used) be played on their next all request show. I received the reply that to do so would cost WPR a fine of $1,000. Not in total, but for each of their numerous affiliates in Wisconsin. On the other hand last night I was watching an television show (not cable, but ordinary broadcast network) in which all sorts of gruesome violence was portrayed, including numerous corpses with feet severed. Americans are mother folking strange in what they feel must be censored.
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