From: cujo@petitmorte.net   
      
   Will Dockery  wrote in   
   news:1766948846-3274@newsgrouper.org:   
      
   >   
   > mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) posted:   
   >> Will Dockery wrote:   
   >>> HarryLime wrote:   
   >>>> Will Dockery wrote:   
   >>   
   >> >>>>>> "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.   
   >>   
   >> >> 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,   
   >   
   > If never expect you to admit it, Pendragon.   
      
   Illiterate fool. Parse that, dipshit. I dare you.   
      
   > The poem is also a work of fiction,ba poem based on a dream.   
      
   Illiteracy and incoherence aren't your friends, Douchebag.   
      
   > Which shoots you down from a completely different direction.   
      
   Nor is denial and stupidity.   
      
   --   
   "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   
      
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