Christof
replying on The Funnyman by Christof
1 Nov 2002, 6:54 AM
Thanks, that was the idea, glad it worked for you!
I'm jealous that your revolutionaries don't suck like they do here.
Damn, it takes a bit to get a smile out of me at this icky hour, but here I am, grinning. Reminds me of the vegan "commie" anarkids here with Che t-shirts, suede sandals and a new cellphione.
I really dig the last two lines. They totally bring it all together.
Is this translated from another language?
Yes this is pretty funny. Pizza always provokes turf wars
I imagine msot people in the Labour Club were quite right wing anyway. You don't find a lot of Socialists in the Labour party any more.
Nicholas Jones
replying on St. Andrews University Marxist Society by Nicholas Jones
1 Nov 2002, 2:39 AM
I am glad you recognise the wryness. Incidentally, pretty much all of this is true - I actually did meet somehow who was the only member of the communist party in Shetland. Everyone in the Marxist Group thought I was right wing because I was in the Labour Party, while people in the Labour Club thought I was a dangerous lefty because I sometimes went to the Marxist thing.
Well, if you are going to hang out at St Andrews what do you expect? Oxford was much the same. This is very wry.
This happens to me all the time. Guitly conscience or something. Anyway, I recognise a fellow sufferer.
Actually, I think 'Don't make me angry / I'll only get mad' is the best part of this poem. Cut away the rest and leave those two lines.
Again, I empathise strongly - yesterday, I was pissed off because The Guardian published the same crossword as the day before, and my lunchtime entertainment was ruined.
As a keen cyclist, I quite sympathise with the damp arse problem. The answer is to wear waterproof trousers, but then you look stupid. Oh, and put a plastic bag over your saddle when you leave the bike.
I like the fact that the first four lines could be some horrible cliched angsty poem, but then it goes off into comic territory at the end.
There's a nice sense of inevitability, but I'm not sure if the simplicity of the verse structure works here.
I like it; check your typos. Rolling Stone mag did a fascinatingly strange article on Hemingway and his very troubled son; I believe it was the August issue. My favorite line here is "and it is so much more....than destroyed". Keep fleshing, royally.
Why couldn't you? I doubt anyone cares in this case.
Yep. It's teenage angst all right. If you've left those days, why on earth inflict them on us?
'Basal' Well, in my dictionary, basal means 'forming or belonging to a bottom layer or base.' What's that got to do with animal instincts? What strange and bizarre dictionnaries are you characters using? (New Oxford 1998 here)