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  • Crap! Well, it’s back to eating brass instruments for me.

  • When gut strings are outlawed, only outlaws will have gut strings.

  • Is there nothing too petty for these loons?

  • What will they ban next, String Theory? It is obvious that the EU bureaucrats will never have to worry about coming down with a brain disease.

  • My husband and I can’t give blood because we were in Germany during the period from 1980 to 1990 and therefore we might have, as Denny Crane puts it, “the Mad Cow.”

  • Given the EU’s recent woes, there’s a joke to be made about fiddling while Rome burns (I just can’t quite make it, so I leave it to your imagination).

  • @kimsch: I understand that. I was in the UK from ’94-’98. I and the rest of my family are banned from giving blood. That’s a pity, because I was a regular donor.

    As for gut strings, maybe they can go back to cat… they don’t carry Mad Cow or C-J to the best of my knowledge.

    Anyway, the ban on gut strings is ridiculous. Every study on C-J has reported on nerve tissue being the conduit. Intestines are not nerve-rich tissue.

  • @L.C. – you do realize the brass instruments may have a significant amount of lead

  • It’s good to know that European bureaucrats can be just as stupid as American ones.