Shameless Fandom and a Bit of Etymology for the Septics

If you haven't heard, "The Two" (the surviving members of The Who) are searching for rare recordings and memorabilia for their 50-year reunion--like the guitar Townshend tossed at Woodstock. Word is a roadie managed to wrest it from the tripping, mud-drenched minions, but this is disputed. Here's betting a bunch of folks will emerge from the cracks bearing the alleged guitar, never mind the inevitable horde of former groupies proffering panties (knickers for the Limeys onboard) purportedly ripped by Keith Moon (probably by trying them on),  sealed vials of bodily fluids, snippets of hair in glassine envelopes...Their claims will be verified for a Sotheby's auction via DNA analysis after a lengthy battle over Moonie's exhumation, Townshend and Daltrey insisting through barristers that "It's simply too dangerous to dig the cunt* up"...and who can forget the Plaster Casters? 

Admit it, until just that moment--you did.  

Peace. 
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*British men tend to use that word so freely in casual conversation, you begin to believe (after hanging out with them for a few weeks on holiday, say) it would be perfectly proper to tell parents you just met, as you peer into the carriage on a May morning, that their newborn child is "a cute little cunt." This is true in Eastern Scotland, apparently, but Not True At All in London.To confuse matters further, at a dinner party in London (where I was the honorary Septic) the hostess related getting Beckham's autograph in a random street encounter: "I don't mean to be a twat,  but could you sign this for my brother?" I later verified what the conversation implied:  for UK, or at least London usage, anyway, "twat" [rhymes with flat] is the politer form of the barely risque "cunt." Yeah, I know, the bulk of Yanks are clutching our heads and reeling at this point, but I merely report. Indeed, I've known anglophilic American women (I get it's the accent; British women certainly sound smart/sexy to me) at first merely shocked by this, to eventually become outraged at just how difficult it is for the poor bastard to actually stop saying the word, no matter how much he otherwise expresses his love.