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   Message 44,264 of 45,517   
   Cujo DeSockpuppet to Will Dockery   
   Re: HarryLiar gives PPB some unsolicited   
   03 Jan 26 03:56:13   
   
   From: cujo@petitmorte.net   
      
   Will Dockery  wrote in   
   news:1767410166-3274@newsgrouper.org:   
      
   >   
   > Cujo DeSockpuppet  posted:   
   >> Will Dockery  wrote in   
   >> news:1767400951-3274@newsgrouper.org:   
   >> > mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) posted:   
   >> >> George J. Dance wrote:   
   >> >>> Cujo DeSockpuppet wrote:   
   >>>>>> Will Dockery wrote:   
   >>>>>>> George J. Dance wrote:   
   >> >>>>> Will Dockery wrote:   
   >>   
   >> >> >>> I've just looked and don't see April Magazine anywhere on PPB   
   >> >> >>> Do you have a link?   
   >> >> >>>   
   >> >> >>> Sure, I have two links (since there were two issues):   
   >> >> >>>   
   >> >> >>> April, volume 1 (2010):   
   >> >> >>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2010/04/   
   >> >> >>>   
   >> >> >>> April, volume 2 (2011):   
   >> >> >>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2011/04/   
   >> >> >>>   
   >> >> >>> Now that HarryLiar's dropped out of the discussion, Will, I   
   >> >> >>> hope we   
   >> >> >>> can move on to some of the other points in the OP which he's   
   >> >> >>> tried to bury. The most important one is his "advice" that I   
   >> >> >>> should take all of your poems off the blog.   
   >> >> >>>   
   >> >> >>> Not at all, in fact, I hope to contribute more poetry to PPB   
   >> >> >>> in 2026.   
   >> >> >>>   
   >> >> >>> Given you haven't donated anything but unspeakable sh*t so   
   >> >> >>> far, when do you plan to compose your first one, Douchebag?   
   >> >> >>>   
   >> >> >>> As if you've read any of it.   
   >> >> >>>   
   >> >> >>> It's a question of whether I can read all the way through his   
   >> >> >>> derivative, yet amazingly incoherent, nonsense.   
   >> >> >>> But I have tried. Indeed I have!   
   >> >> >>>   
   >> >> >>> I ask that you show some pity, Douchebag Willie has called me   
   >> >> >>> a "mailcious troll and cyberbully". I don't know how I can   
   >> >> >>> concentrate without those hurtful words breaking up my   
   >> >> >>> thoughts and concentration.   
   >> >> >>>   
   >> >> >>> In other words: "Curb your Douchebag, George!". And wipe up   
   >> >> >>> after. Thanks for your attention to this matter.   
   >> >> >>>   
   >> >> >>> I've tried to make some sense of this, but this is the best I   
   >> >> >>> can do:   
   >> >> >>>   
   >> >> >>> You've tried to read Will's poetry on the blog, but you've   
   >> >> >>> been unable to concentrate because you keep remembering   
   >> >> >>> comments he's made to you that hurt your feelings; so you've   
   >> >> >>> decided to call all of it "unspeakable sh*t." I hope that's an   
   >> >> >>> accurate summary.   
   >> >>   
   >> >> >> PSSST! George!   
   >> >> >> It's satire!   
   >> >> >> HTH!   
   >> >>   
   >> >> > Effective satire often contains more than a grain of truth, Mr.   
   >> >> > Fries. Pointing that out is nothing to get defensive over; after   
   >> >> > all, you wouldn't be the first to let one's personal   
   >> >> > acquaintance with a poet get in the way of appreciating his   
   >> >> > poetry. Look, for instance, at HarryLiar, who's popped up in   
   >> >> > this thread again. Notice that he doesn't like Will's poetry,   
   >> >> > either, which I'm sure he would claim has nothing to do with the   
   >> >> > fact that Will has identified him (quite accurately) as one of   
   >> >> > the most malicious trolls on Usenet.   
   >> >>   
   >> >> If your memory hasn't totally eroded, you'll recall that for the   
   >> >> first few years that I was with AAPC, I was allied with you and   
   >> >> Will against PJR and "The Regulars."   
   >> >>   
   >> >> You might also recall that I had refrained from commenting on   
   >> >> Will's poetry, until after he posted a link to a video/song   
   >> >> version.   
   >> >>   
   >> >> I'm not going to try find the post, but I posted something   
   >> >> addressed to Will along the following lines:   
   >> >>   
   >> >> I've always avoided commenting on your poetry because I couldn't   
   >> >> think of anything positive to say about it.  Now that I've seen   
   >> >> your video, I realize that your poems are actually song lyrics --   
   >> >> and as song lyrics they work very well as what I termed "3 am bar   
   >> >> music."  I also noted that his vocal delivery worked well with   
   >> >> that genre as well.   
   >> >>   
   >> >> Again, I wrote this when I was on Will's team, and I have repeated   
   >> >> variations of it many times since (including very recently).   
   >> >>   
   >> >> And I will restate it again:   
   >> >>   
   >> >> Will is a terrible poet.  However, his poetry works as 3 am bar   
   >> >> song lyrics.  I don't think Will should try to pass himself off as   
   >> >> a poet.   
   >> >>  He hasn't got the requisite education/skills to write poetry, and   
   >> >>  he   
   >> >> only ends up making himself seem like a pretentious, narcissistic   
   >> >> fool.  He should, however, call himself a songwriter, and speak of   
   >> >> his poetry as "lyrics."  He'd come across as more down to earth,   
   >> >> and would piss people off a lot less.   
   >> >   
   >> > Thanks again for the positive points, that was definitely "fair and   
   >> > balanced."   
   >>   
   >> Point of order!   
      
   >> Dreckery doesn't just seem to be "like a pretentious, narcissistic   
   >> fool".   
      
   >> He's also a Douchebag.   
   >   
   > Says CujoDeSockpuppet, the low level troll and malicious cyberbully.   
      
   That's so precious. An alleged poet out of words.   
      
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   that you have already lost the argument." - Little Willie Douchebag gets   
   another asskicking from Pendragon   
      
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