From: cujo@petitmorte.net   
      
   georgedance04@yahoo-dot-ca.no-spam.invalid (George J. Dance) wrote in   
   news:_06dnX_JzIlyXuL0nZ2dnZfqnPednZ2d@giganews.com:   
      
   >> Will-Dockery wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> George J. Dance wrote:   
   >>> Merry Christmas from Penny's Poetry Blog   
   >>>   
   >>> Penny's poem for Christmas Day:   
   >>> The Poor Boy's Christmas, by Ellis Parker Butler   
   >>>   
   >>> [...]   
   >>> The philosophic mind can see   
   >>> The uses of adversity.   
   >>>   
   >>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-poor-boys-christmas-ell   
   >>> is-parker.html   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Actually this post was made a month ago.   
   >>   
   >> CC: NancyGene   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   > You're right. The poem was posted on Christmas Day, 2025 (which was a   
   > Thursday).   
   >   
   > MummyChunk, who seems to be searching the recent archives for poems to   
   > bump, replied to it on Friday, Jan. 30, 2026.   
   >   
   > You saw her Friday post, replying to a Thursday one, and (since JLA   
   > doesn't put the date on each post). you didn't realize she'd dug up an   
   > older post.   
   >   
   > When challenged on that, you went back and checked. Good on you.   
      
   When challenged, Dreckweasel snipped and ran away. SSDD.   
      
   It can't be a good sign that people are being encouraged to drag corpses   
   like Douchebag Willie rather than add a new conversation.   
      
      
   --   
   "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)