Its front is its best side, with a big beaming blue badge and a solid, ballsy-looking hood.

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You have to be really ballsy to work at a bar like this.

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Well, well because it is ballsy and artistic and British and crazy.

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Strangely, though, they had nicknames that evoked either the Broadway characters of Damon Runyon or, more bizarrely, the upper classes of Wodehousian England: Bongbong, Teddyboy, Ting Ting and Ballsy, for example.

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Pretty bold, pretty ballsy, but will it work?

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Still, taking the risky route is ballsy.

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Fairly or not, Blackshaw has come to represent the "academic" side of the acoustic guitar (as opposed to the raw American Primitive sound of the late Jack Rose), so it's a surprising and somewhat ballsy move to put aside the full, resonant sound of a 12-string acoustic for the staccato feel of the electric guitar, with all the rock baggage that instrument carries.

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