From: cujo@petitmorte.net   
      
   mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) wrote in   
   news:tdednca6TM0eMRP0nZ2dnZfqn_ednZ2d@giganews.com:   
      
   >> NancyGene wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> HarryLime wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> NancyGene wrote:   
   >>>> Our pals in law enforcement raided the Donkey Hovel to take more   
   >>>> pictures.  See attached, which proves that the "introduction"   
   >>>> supposedly from Zu-Bolton was not a part of "Pegasus," and that   
   >>>> Will Donkey was aware of the Zu-Bolton repudiation letter.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Bad Donkey.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Once again, the Donkey has been snagged.   
   >>>   
   >>> Bad, bad Donkey.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Yes, and Will Donkey continues to deny the fraud that he is   
   >> perpetuating.  As an editor for ~38 years, what is your opinion of   
   >> the Pegasus publication?   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   > I feel compelled to qualify my opinion by noted that I have only seen   
   > two pages, and the front cover, of the magazine.   
   >   
   > The cover features a line drawing of a winged horse.  It's a fitting,   
   > of hardly imaginative, cover.  The horse looks about like what one   
   > would expect from a high school student.  It's easily recognizable as   
   > a horse, although its body was obviously not sketched from life.   
   >   
   > The Introduction (which purports to be by Zu-Bolton) matches the cover   
   > in that it is... adequate.  It is divided into three parts.  The first   
   > presents a whimsical tale relating how Pegasus left Greece to take up   
   > residence in Columbus, GA.  It reads like what it is... filler.  The   
   > second opens with the bizarre statement that the "post-sputnik age has   
   > produced the most literate generation of all time."  One wonders what   
   > the author was smoking.  The third part is an admission that he has   
   > had no hand in the production of the magazine, knows nothing about it,   
   > and has thoroughly kept his distance from it.  He closes with a   
   > cliched and stereotypically upbeat "observation" that the students   
   > represented in "Pegasus" are reaching for the stars.   
   >   
   > The Introduction is set up in the form of a typewritten letter (which   
   > it most likely was).   
   >   
   > The one page of the actual content which I seen features the poem   
   > "Shatt Rd," by our own Will Donkey (who assures that the actual title   
   > was "Shattered."  The poem is... awful.  It's full of all the   
   > compositional errors that Will Donkey continues to make today.   
   > Obviously, no attempt to proofread, or edit the poem in any way, had   
   > been made.  It's accompanied by a pen and crayon drawing of some sort   
   > of fanciful cartoon animal.   
   >   
   > The cartoon animal is the best thing I have seen in the magazine so   
   > far... and it's just a generic character vaguely reminiscent of Albert   
   > the Alligator.   
   >   
   > On the whole, it looks like a magazine that was put together by a   
   > bunch of high school kids.  The inclusion of a Will Donkey poem   
   > automatically brings down the quality of any magazine (and it's the   
   > only poem I've seen in this one), but one supposes that the   
   > school-imposed rules stipulated that anyone who contributes a poem   
   > must be included.   
   >   
   > The misspelling of "Shattered," as "Shatt Rd," however, is   
   > unacceptable -- even for a student publication.  Either the editors   
   > didn't care what they were typing -- or Will Donkey had handed them a   
   > barely legible, handwritten copy, and they were left to guess at what   
   > he'd written.   
   >   
   > I'm sure that it briefly graced the doors of many local kitchen   
   > refrigerators.   
      
   It's also lined many birdcages and wrapped many smelly fish.   
      
   --   
   "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   
      
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