From: cujo@petitmorte.net   
      
   nancygene.andjayme@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (NancyGene) wrote in   
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   >> HarryLime wrote:   
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   >>> Cujo DeSockpuppet wrote:   
   >>> mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) wrote in   
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   >>>> NancyGene wrote:   
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   >>>> HarryLime wrote:   
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   >>>> NancyGene wrote:   
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   >>>> Cujo DeSockpuppet wrote:   
   >>>> mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) wrote in   
   >>>> news:tdednca6TM0eMRP0nZ2dnZfqn_ednZ2d@giganews.com:   
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   >>>>   
   >>>> NancyGene wrote:   
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   >>>> HarryLime wrote:   
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   >>>> 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.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> It has also lined many a lie from William Donkey.  The "Shatt Rd"   
   >>>> poem wasn't in the Pegasus POS.  It, by Donkey's own admission, was   
   >>>> written on August 20, 1976 and published in Carverlite in March of   
   >>>> 1977.  Ahmos Zu-Bolton and the few readers of Pegasus would not   
   >>>> have seen that horrible poem.  For some nefarious reason, Donkey   
   >>>> has redacted the year of the poem on the scan. We wonder if the   
   >>>> color cartoon on the page was hand-colored by Donkey, since there   
   >>>> were no color copying machines in 1977.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Therefore, we have seen only two purported "pages" of Pegasus:  the   
   >>>> cover and the fraudulent letter that wasn't written by Ahmos   
   >>>> Zu-Bolton.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> OMFG!  You're right!   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I had thought Pegasus a professionally printed magazine because the   
   >>>> Alfred the Alligator cartoon would have required color separation.   
   >>>> Now, it looks like it was simply a collection of photocopied   
   >>>> typewritten pages.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I also have to wonder if the Donkey was in Pegasus at all.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> It's beginning to look like this whole thing has just been one big   
   >>>> scam to "prove" that some nobody of a poet sat in on Dan Barfly's   
   >>>> class?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Pathetic.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> "Professionally printed?"  "Shirley," you jest!  It must have just   
   >>>> been copied or mimeographed onto colored papers, folded and   
   >>>> stapled. Badly.  We question that the Alfred the Alligator cartoon   
   >>>> figure "DAKI" is original to the Carverlite issue, since Daki is a   
   >>>> character in Demon Slayer (2016).  The alligator/Daki has no   
   >>>> connection with Will Donkey's "poem," and it looks like it was   
   >>>> colored in with markers.  The "(Carverlite March 77)" caption was   
   >>>> written in by hand.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> How many more lies does Will Donkey think that he can perpetuate?   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> If a 1976 magazine included full color artwork, it would have to   
   >>>> have been taken to a printer's for color separation.  That doesn't   
   >>>> mean that the magazine looks like a professional quality   
   >>>> publication.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Of course, NancyGene has now shown that the color artwork (the   
   >>>> Albert the Alligator clone) was actually from another publication,   
   >>>> and that the color was provided after the fact (courtesy of the   
   >>>> Donkey and a box of Crayola Crayons), so I officially retract my   
   >>>> former statement.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> The moral of the story is that one should *never* believe anything   
   >>>> a Donkey posts... even if it's a photograph.   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> I believe he has a snaggletoof. I saw the picture.   
   >>>   
      
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