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   Message 44,407 of 45,517   
   Cujo DeSockpuppet to NancyGene   
   Re: Snow, Snow / George J. Dance   
   09 Jan 26 16:27:58   
   
   From: cujo@petitmorte.net   
      
   nancygene.andjayme@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (NancyGene) wrote in   
   news:AB2dnb84M4hLvvz0nZ2dnZfqnPqdnZ2d@giganews.com:   
      
   >> HarryLime wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Will-Dockery wrote:   
   >>> nancygene.andjayme@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (NancyGene) wrote   
   >>> in news:vnKdnQ0NxOsLPcP0nZ2dnZfqn_udnZ2d@giganews.com:   
   >>>   
   >>>> HarryLime wrote:   
   >>>> George J. Dance wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Snow, Snow   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Again, here in the Southlands you'd have gotten your wish, this   
   >>>> last Christmas was warm, actually it could have been considered   
   >>>> hot.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I wrote a poem, an early attempt at a sonnet, about a similar   
   >>>> Christmas in  1976 or 1977, probably lost, titled "Snow No   
   >>>> Show."   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Dan Barfield was a bit harsh on it because he wasn't a fan of   
   >>>> rhymes in poetry, which may have contributed to the poem's lost   
   >>>> status now.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I'm thinking about recreating the poem using my currently more   
   >>>> advanced knowledge of writing the sonnet, possibly in these last   
   >>>> few weeks of winter.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> It's easy to pick out   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Agreed the photograph is quite iconic.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> But only in its true, iconic form:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> This from HarryLiar, who'll whine for years about someone else   
   >>>> posting an "altered photograph".   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> We don't see the distinctive Will Donkey ears on anyone else in the   
   >> family. He is an outlier (liar?) and a stray. Was Mildred known to   
   >> dally with Coonhounds?   
   >>   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   > Of course not, after you vandalized the photograph.   
   >   
   > HTH and HAND.[/quote]   
   >   
   > Are you claiming that your family members all have Dumbo ears like   
   > you?[/quote]   
   >   
   > That's what Donkey is saying.  Also, some of them had bushy tails.   
      
   I hear Quackery has webbed feet.   
      
   PS: "Holy fuck a duck, Batman!"   
      
      
   --   
   "The fact that it doesn't apply to the poem is of little consequence to   
   you, because your poems don't have a literary basis, because you're   
   functionally illiterate and haven't got a clue as to what a poem is." -   
   Little Willie Douchebag gets another asskicking from Pendragon   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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