Re: a comment on This one the love by thepinkbunnyofdoom	fevriere 62.254.128.4	26-Apr-05/1:28 PM
I was affording myself time off my duty to Poesy as Head Critic. Maybe you need to do the same?
Re: a comment on Self Conscious by Damien	Damien 212.248.252.234	26-Apr-05/6:51 AM
Yes of course I did: you said you thought my poetry had gone down hill because of some reason or other, but how can that be when it is a single poem.It is impossible for all of my poetry to actually have a meaning let-a-lone make sense. I simply enjoy the flow of rhyming words and "hooks". If I choose to only develop this(not a suggestion) it is entirely up to me. Thanks for the feedback.
Re: a comment on Self Conscious by Damien	Dovina 204.250.12.246	26-Apr-05/5:49 AM
Did you read what I said?
Re: a comment on All You Need Is Gloves by -=DIABETES=-	Goad 80.132.211.176	26-Apr-05/3:40 AM
The first rule of fight club is: don't talk about fight club.
Re: a comment on Middle-Aged White Woman by Dovina	Goad 80.132.211.176	26-Apr-05/3:33 AM
hmmm, maybe it's a regional thing. It's when someone does some minor anti-social thing (xxx), and you say "Yeah, go ahead (or, SURE) -- xxx", heavily emphasizing the verb of xxx, and with either exaggerated sarcasm, or an air of "Fine. Be that way." Long live the mandative tense! It is vital that all good grammarians play their role in encouraging proper usage of subjunctive clauses. Hopefully, this is clear to all. If it were up to me, I would require that candidates applying for a driving license demonstrate correct usage of the subjunctive before being permitted to proceed to the physical driving test. In fact, I suggest we consider this idea carefully -- although I must add: were a better way suggested, I'd happily throw my weight behind it.
Re: a comment on Trying to get signed? by Damien	Damien 212.248.252.234	26-Apr-05/1:26 AM
Wrong, that is not how I speak normally like I said. These playfull assumptions are getting everyones knickers in a twist. Here you go: lets be friends, I am sorry for any remark I made to offend whether true or false. A TRUCE.
Re: a comment on Self Conscious by Damien	Damien 212.248.252.234	26-Apr-05/1:09 AM
Will you please stop grabbing extracts from my poetry and some give a conclusion. I know you can offer me good advice, so please do.
Re: a comment on Self Conscious by Damien	Damien 212.248.252.234	26-Apr-05/1:08 AM
Is it really possible for every poem I produce to be my best quality, no because I have not reached that even when i am on top form.
Re: a comment on All You Need Is Gloves by -=DIABETES=-	thepinkbunnyofdoom 4.224.24.205	26-Apr-05/1:06 AM
How about I don't remember either of them. Never liked more than one or two Dave Matthews songs, and I was burnt out on the bettles by the time I was 10. I thought you should have kept the "have you read" comment. It was better and would have been more fun to respond to.
Re: a comment on This one the love by thepinkbunnyofdoom	thepinkbunnyofdoom 4.224.24.205	26-Apr-05/1:01 AM
Ever look at the vote details? Look at anything I've posted in the last two years. You'll find no votes for myself. Before that, Eh? Yeah, so what of it. The writings from before then are just as bad as any of the current ranker toddlers. I don't give myself votes anymore, and I tend to avoid using my other usernames to vote or comment. So what the fuck are you smoking?
Re: Self Conscious by Damien	zodiac 212.118.19.216	25-Apr-05/11:19 PM
No one is saying your assumptions aren't new. They're about as new as making up a language with only vowels or wearing a slightly-altered hat for trousers. Why didn't you just say "true" instead?
Re: a comment on Trying to get signed? by Damien	zodiac 212.118.19.216	25-Apr-05/11:18 PM
Yes, "everyone makes assumptions INCLUDING me" is pretty self-fulfilling, isn't it? You're just assuming that everybody makes assumptions, so it's okay if you do. Anyway, most of the people here who ARE making assuptions are making them based on your writing, like "Damien could stand to work on his grammar", while you're making assumptions based on almost nothing. In the case of "zodiac sits around his computer all day", your only basis for thinking that is that I happen to be on a website typing - which YOU'RE ALSO DOING. PS-All of us are messing around at work. None of us (except maybe Stephen and Fraser) are employed as professional poemranker responders. Please don't make assumptions about us, especially when you're doing the same thing as we are. That's no way to enlightenment, buddy. And this is not how I come across in conversation.
Re: a comment on This one the love by thepinkbunnyofdoom	zodiac 212.118.19.216	25-Apr-05/11:06 PM
Maybe she figured you'd already pre-voted her vote with one of your dozens of self-10s.
Re: a comment on All You Need Is Gloves by -=DIABETES=-	zodiac 212.118.19.216	25-Apr-05/11:02 PM
It's going to be the saddest thing in the world if you really only remember Dave Matthews' "All you need is love, love, love" from The Christmas Song and not "All you need is love" from the Beatles song.
Re: a comment on Middle-Aged White Woman by Dovina	zodiac 212.118.19.216	25-Apr-05/11:00 PM
I can't think of a common-use situation where the phrase "go ahead" isn't a command - or at least a subtle or weak close cousin. Okay - mostly because -=Dark_Angel=-,P.I. knows better, yes I can. In a bank-teller's line, for example, you might say, "Can I go ahead of you?" But I'm sure we can agree that's nothing like the case we're talking about here. Ibid as far as "ignore me, don't hire me," etc etc goes. Dovina probably meant something closer to "you ignore me, you don't hire me," etc, but that's not what she said. What she said has no other English usage, common or not, except mandative. Does German have a mandative tense with distinct conjugations? (I figure it's probably known in German as a 14-syllable word meaning roughly, 'the way we talk to each other all the time', but that's another matter.)
Re: a comment on Middle-Aged White Woman by Dovina	zodiac 212.118.19.216	25-Apr-05/10:50 PM
I thought of that. But then I thought it was probably your real personality. Hence my original comment: "Have you ever read Margaret Atwood's short story 'Rape Fantasies'? You should."
Re: a comment on Middle-Aged White Woman by Dovina	zodiac 212.118.19.216	25-Apr-05/10:43 PM
I believe it is possible; it's certainly been done well hundreds of times. The trick is probably to find some new angle, like Alice Walker writing about blacks's search for post-African identity in her short story "Everyday Use", Zora Neale Hurston writing about power-struggles in isolated all-black communities in all her books, or (since I haven't named a white author yet) all the white authors of the television show "Martin". No, "maybe it's time for retribution" is not a new angle.
Re: a comment on Middle-Aged White Woman by Dovina	zodiac 212.118.19.216	25-Apr-05/10:33 PM
Oh. Maybe we should have said in the beginning that writing about any GROUP from the perspective of a GROUP is a major mistake. Of course, you've already said that you were writing about one person, and even identified the poetry-reading-disser you were thinking of. But I think we can agree all that flew out the window a long time ago. And for that matter, (and this is the last time, I swear,) why did you call the poem "Middle-Aged White Woman" instead of "Dovina"? And why all the "my kind abused your kind" stuff? Of course, it's also perfectly reasonable here to say that any person writing about any person, from his own group or another, can be read as writing about the group as a whole. That's why you have to be very careful.
Re: a comment on All You Need Is Gloves by -=DIABETES=-	patty t 69.194.110.163	25-Apr-05/5:39 PM
I disagree; keep it as 'IS' - going with the gramatically correct choice would completely throw off the Lennon cadence. Actually, with rhythmic considerations in mind, maybe change it to 'A glove (sing) is all you need' not 'gloves is' (plural)
Re: a comment on This one the love by thepinkbunnyofdoom	Dovina 204.250.12.246	25-Apr-05/11:08 AM
Amen to that.