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   Cujo DeSockpuppet to Will-Dockery   
   Re: "January," by Ellwood Roberts (Janua   
   27 Jan 26 20:53:32   
   
   From: cujo@petitmorte.net   
      
   will.dockery@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (Will-Dockery) wrote in   
   news:gdqdndeY1be0ueT0nZ2dnZfqn_WdnZ2d@giganews.com:   
      
   >> NancyGene wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> MummyChunk wrote:   
   >>> Ellwood was a stern looking man.   
   >>>   
   >>> Thanks for sharing.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> We try not to let these obscure poets remain obscure.  Too bad some   
   >> people repost our poems after we post them and claim that they   
   >> discovered the poet.  Thievery.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   > Either way, the poem is in the public domain, so both of you can use   
   > it, no "thievery" involved.   
      
   So you're suddenly the expert on what constitutes theft? How so?   
      
   --   
   "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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