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   Message 44,127 of 45,517   
   Cujo DeSockpuppet to HarryLime   
   Re: I Met A Girl / Will Dockery (1982)   
   28 Dec 25 19:05:25   
   
   From: cujo@petitmorte.net   
      
   mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) wrote in   
   news:StucnUhBUp4k4cz0nZ2dnZfqn_SdnZ2d@giganews.com:   
      
   >> Will-Dockery wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> HarryLime wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Will-Dockery wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> HarryLime wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> Will Dockery wrote:   
   >>>>>> mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) posted:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Will Dockery wrote:   
   >>>>>>> Peter J Ross  posted:   
   >>>>>>> On 2025-12-18, Will Dockery   
   >>>>>>> >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> "I Met A Girl"   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> "And Within A Week A Judge Forbade Me To Go Within Ten Miles Of   
   >>>>>>> Her"   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> All in your imagination, PJR.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> In 1982, perhaps.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> In 2025, if you met a girl, and "put [your] finger to her hole,"   
   >>>>>>> you'd be thrown in jail.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> You've forgotten that the poem is based on a dream, anyhow,   
   >>>>>> apparently.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Poetry and dreams are not "real life."   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Dream or not, your poem depicts a minor (implied by "girl")   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> For starters, she would be a little younger than my 24 years of age   
   >>>> in May 1982.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Secondly, the use of "girl" referring to a female romantic interest   
   >>>> in poetry and song is traditional.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> See The Beatles' "Girl":   
   >>>>   
   >>>> https://youtu.be/NaXXmpjaIq4?si=-XdBVG5-UTLGDrMV   
   >>>>   
   >>>> And Billy Joel's "Hey Girl":   
   >>>>   
   >>>> https://youtu.be/tMfLKrGvCzI?si=38fUyrH2A7bcjT3v   
   >>>>   
   >>>> HTH and HAND.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> *yawn*   
   >>>   
   >>> Age is not the issue   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> You tried to make it an issue until I just shot you down over that.   
   >>   
   >> HTH and HAND.   
   >   
   >   
   > You haven't shot anything down, delusional Donkey,   
   >   
   > But your defense only concerns itself with the age of the victim --   
   > not with the criminal act of sexual assault.   
   >   
   > You seem to think that sexual assault is not only normal, but "a   
   > romantic interlude" provided that the victim is 18+.   
      
   Not to mention his response to actually being responsible for any   
   hellspawn produced from it is to dodge child support payments and lie   
   about it.   
      
   --   
   "Post-editing someone's statement before replying to it is a sure sign   
   that you have already lost the argument." - Little Willie Douchebag gets   
   another asskicking from Pendragon   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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