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   Message 44,136 of 45,517   
   Will Dockery to All   
   Re: I Met A Girl / Will Dockery (1982)   
   28 Dec 25 23:33:44   
   
   From: user3274@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   Cujo DeSockpuppet  posted:   
      
   > mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) wrote in   
   > news:StucnUhBUp4k4cz0nZ2dnZfqn_SdnZ2d@giganews.com:   
   > Will Dockery wrote:   
   >> HarryLime wrote:   
   >>> Will Dockery wrote:   
   > >>>>>> mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) posted:   
   >   
   > >>>>>>> "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.   
   >   
   > > But your defense only concerns itself with the age of the victim --   
      
   Again, it's only a poem based on a dream, it isn't real.   
      
   HTH and HAND.   
      
   > Not to mention his response to actually being responsible for any   
   > hellspawn produced from it is to dodge child support payments   
      
   Why do you lie and misrepresent so much, CujoDeSockpuppet?   
      
   Right, you're a malicious cyberbully troll.   
      
   Got it.   
      
   --   
   Poetry and songs of Will Dockery:   
   https://www.reverbnation.com/willdockery   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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