| Re: a comment on In Answer To Your Question by Dovina |
Shuushin 147.154.235.51 |
28-Jan-05/12:34 PM |
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The argument gets interesting when you make the logical jump from something being stronger, to something being better - or smarter being better.
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| Re: a comment on In Answer To Your Question by Dovina |
Shuushin 147.154.235.51 |
28-Jan-05/12:20 PM |
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I think what you have is clearly expressing the idea, and the idea makes sense - just, yes - its more verbosely stated than is my preference.
Turns out that in most cases they are indeed promising more than they will deliver. Not sure how it is in Europe, but in the US more marriages fail than not.
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| Re: a comment on In Answer To Your Question by Dovina |
-=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 81.153.196.50 |
28-Jan-05/12:00 PM |
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FACT Men are physically stronger than women on average.
FACT The only significant, measurable, non-wishy-washy, intellectual difference between the sexes is that on average, men have better spatial awareness than women.
Since men are better than women in BOTH the Physical AND Mental realms, men must be better than women overall. I'm sorry but that's just the way it is :(
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| Re: Waiting for October by wilco |
Dovina 205.184.70.141 |
28-Jan-05/11:10 AM |
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A sad wait indeed. For what? Seems like it needs to say what she's waiting for.
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| Re: a comment on #28 by Lifeboatman |
Dovina 205.184.70.141 |
28-Jan-05/10:57 AM |
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You just called me not bright and brilliant in the same sentence. How enlightening! And you missed the _____point!
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| Re: a comment on In Answer To Your Question by Dovina |
Dovina 205.184.70.141 |
28-Jan-05/10:52 AM |
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Verbosity is a sin, for which, if I have committed it, I repent! But I thought that each line was expressing a different promise and considering it in the prospect of marriage. Not that Iâm getting married, but at a wedding recently, it seemed what they were promising was not what they could possibly deliver.
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| Re: a comment on In Answer To Your Question by Dovina |
Dovina 205.184.70.141 |
28-Jan-05/10:47 AM |
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Interesting! A line drawn in the Poemranker sand. A supposition about marriage labeled as âwoman.â Do you mean that a woman is incapable of commitment to the degree presented in the poem, and a man is? Perhaps you think only a man is that strong or that foolish. Maybe you mean that what I am really saying is that I want this kind of commitment from the man I marry, and that no woman can expect that.
You understand the supposition of the narrator, that he or she is not promising, but thinking about promises. When we say, âtil death do us partâ and âfor better or worse,â how different is that from the promises considered in the poem?
No, I think your line is drawn in less sensible sand. They usually are when living is at stake. Iâm guessing that some of my lines have dredged up a womanâs meanness. For that I apologize on behalf of the sex for all the times we have demanded promises from our men, when itâs not his promises that make us happy, but his surprises.
Please return here at the Dear Dovina column as often as you wish.
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| Re: Hades Ain't Far Enough by MacFrantic |
Shuushin 147.154.235.51 |
28-Jan-05/10:11 AM |
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"dread upon the dalliers" - nice
I like this one, MF.
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| Re: a comment on On the Discovery of Cinder Cats and The Road More Traveled by MacFrantic |
MacFrantic 204.98.2.23 |
28-Jan-05/10:03 AM |
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If you are familiar with them, all of my limericks come in unrelated pairs. And thank you very much
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| Re: a comment on Activating your Infinity by horus8 |
Shardik 24.130.62.63 |
28-Jan-05/6:55 AM |
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It is a story you tit.
And at least I know the difference
Between 'to' and 'too'. Idiot.
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| Re: a comment on #28 by Lifeboatman |
zodiac 212.118.11.12 |
28-Jan-05/4:06 AM |
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Would you say you tend to find words ending in '-ian' generally more meaningful than other words?
PS-Anyone can tell this poem is more Anne Cecil de Vereian than anything else. You just think it's Shakespearean because you don't get Shakespeare and you don't get this. But if you think about it for a moment, you'll realise you don't get Shakespeare because you're not bright or educated at an Accredited Poetry School, and you don't get this poem because it has no point and is a shitpile of pisspoor allusions and non sequitors with bad grammar in between.
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| Re: a comment on Dream of a Vanilla Sky by smlink84 |
Shuushin 70.16.208.65 |
27-Jan-05/8:34 PM |
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I saw this movie yesterday - it made me uncomfortable to the point where twice I wanted to eject it, but didn't.
Very glad I stuck with it, it was a wonderful and beautiful movie - not an easy movie.
Btw, I doubt this smlink dude was even thinking of that flick, he was more likely referencing the *painting*.
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| Re: thoughts on a long lazy day by francis nor capule |
Shuushin 70.16.208.65 |
27-Jan-05/8:13 PM |
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| Re: Waiting for October by wilco |
Shuushin 70.16.208.65 |
27-Jan-05/8:12 PM |
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"The flowerâs been washed clean." specify flower - fix meter.
"The ghosts are coming through" - weak description - fixable.
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| Re: Your Eyes Are Like Stearling Saphires in the month of June by tisa7 |
tisa7 4.10.233.198 |
27-Jan-05/7:29 PM |
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thank you me and a friend thought of it while thinking of our boy friends
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| Re: In Answer To Your Question by Dovina |
wilco 24.165.207.93 |
27-Jan-05/6:50 PM |
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But you'll never say those things because you're a woman.
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| Re: Your Eyes Are Like Stearling Saphires in the month of June by tisa7 |
wilco 24.165.207.93 |
27-Jan-05/6:47 PM |
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| Re: ... by shygirl1619 |
wilco 24.165.207.93 |
27-Jan-05/6:45 PM |
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Work on your spelling and put line breaks in te right places and this isn't half bad.
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| Re: just can't by shygirl1619 |
peaceseeker 63.164.145.85 |
27-Jan-05/5:59 PM |
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you can do it!
do something else, now.
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| Re: The Nude by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. |
unouluvme 66.167.67.53 |
27-Jan-05/4:09 PM |
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