Re: Rather Polite of Him, Wouldn't You Say?

docdwarf@panix.com wrote:
> In article <4sk3gpF10c8huU1@mid.individual.net>,
> Pete Dashwood <dashwood@removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote:
>
> [snip]
> 
>
> You got a heart?  During my Sergeanting-Daze there were those who swore
> that I had no such organ... just a thumpin' gizzard.
>
> DD

He probably keeps his heart in a jar under the stairs.

Alistair wrote:
>
> I too had my heart broken a long time ago. I also wrote a poem.
> Unfortunately it was an epic load of shite and has long been
> discarded. I have only tried twice since then to write poetry, in the
> form of blues ditties. Sadly, I've managed to misplace them so you
> can thank your God that you will not be subjected to poetry on a par
> of the Vogon Captain (see Hitch-Hikers ...)

"Ode to a lump of green clay I found in my armpit one morning" was the best.

Alistair wrote:
> Pete Dashwood wrote: 
>
> I too had my heart broken a long time ago. I also wrote a poem.
> Unfortunately it was an epic load of shite and has long been discarded.
> I have only tried twice since then to write poetry, in the form of
> blues ditties. Sadly, I've managed to misplace them so you can thank
> your God that you will not be subjected to poetry on a par of the Vogon
> Captain (see Hitch-Hikers ...)

I know exactly what you mean, and how the trauma of being deprived of
something important to you can be debilitating:
http:mwallace.net/m-pages/mycat.htm

In article <1164300905.555485.93190@h54g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
Alistair <alistair@ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>docdwarf@panix.com wrote: 
>
>He probably keeps his heart in a jar under the stairs.

A Classice Joke from the Oldene Dayse:  'So your (relative) is/has
performing/performed (accomplishment)... that's nothing!  My (relative) is
at (prominent institution of higher education)... in a jar in a
display-case!'

DD

"Mark Wallace" <mwallace@dse.nl> wrote in message
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> Alistair wrote: 
>
> I know exactly what you mean, and how the trauma of being deprived of
> something important to you can be debilitating:
> http:mwallace.net/m-pages/mycat.htm

(Forward slashes missing from above link...)

LOL!

Nevertheless, some people really take it very hard when they lose a pet.
Witness all the tribute sites around the Web...

Writing about it is a good way to help deal with it.

Pete

Pete Dashwood wrote:
> "Mark Wallace" <mwallace@dse.nl> wrote in message
> news:ek7vru$it0$1@aioe.server.aioe.org... 
>
> (Forward slashes missing from above link...)

Oops.  They must be around, somewhere; I'll probably find them as soon
as I stop looking.

Hey!  I just clicked the link, so that I could go to a 404 page, fix it,
and copy it out, but IE put the slashes in for me!  When did that
feature turn up, and why wasn't I told about it?


> LOL!
>
> Nevertheless, some people really take it very hard when they lose a pet.
> Witness all the tribute sites around the Web...
>
> Writing about it is a good way to help deal with it.

... But maybe not the way I did.

I was sitting on a tram to Scheveningen (the seaside), when I came up
with that one.  Even I have doubts about the sanity of someone who can
do such things with no direct inspiration whatsoever.

Alistair wrote:
> Mark Wallace wrote: 
>
> You are showing definite symptoms of being a psychotic likely to move
> on to grannies and others.

Hmm...  Interesting idea.

My granny died,
And it wasn't...


Nah.  My mother would disown me.

"Mark Wallace" <mwallace@dse.nl> wrote in message
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> Pete Dashwood wrote: 
>
> Oops.  They must be around, somewhere; I'll probably find them as soon as
> I stop looking.
>
> Hey!  I just clicked the link, so that I could go to a 404 page, fix it,
> and copy it out, but IE put the slashes in for me!  When did that feature
> turn up, and why wasn't I told about it?
>

Ah, the secretive side of Microsoft... :-)

> 
>
> ... But maybe not the way I did.
>
> I was sitting on a tram to Scheveningen (the seaside), when I came up with
> that one.  Even I have doubts about the sanity of someone who can do such
> things with no direct inspiration whatsoever.

Perhaps the inspiration was not consciously noted?

Do you love animals, or do you find it difficult to understand why people
would keep pets, with all the attendant responsibility and hassle? (There is
no "wrong" answer; whatever you think is OK... :-))

Well, I thought your poem was very good.

I have a folder... My Documents> Writing> Poetry> Other Peoples... and your
poem is in it :-)

Sometimes, laughter is a form of rejection; we reject an idea or event by
laughing at it (sometimes, the reality is too hard to accept). Maybe this
comes in that category...or, maybe it was just a bit of fun. Either way,
your effort on a tram in Holland, caused laughter half a world away.

Thanks for that :-)

Pete.

Pete Dashwood wrote:
> "Mark Wallace" <mwallace@dse.nl> wrote in message
> news:ek94ju$961$1@aioe.server.aioe.org... 
>
> Ah, the secretive side of Microsoft... :-)
> 
>
> Perhaps the inspiration was not consciously noted?
>
> Do you love animals, or do you find it difficult to understand why people
> would keep pets, with all the attendant responsibility and hassle? (There 
is
> no "wrong" answer; whatever you think is OK... :-))

It's probably more to do with my disdain for the way we humans attach
completely spurious "values" to things, and, in so doing, either destroy
or pervert them directly, or set them up as targets of destruction or
perversion.

Keeping pets is seen as "a good thing", but the definition of the word
"good" is complete artifice, in a language that the pets themselves do
not understand.  Where does "cruelty to animals" end, and our "good"
thing, whatever it may be, begin?


> Well, I thought your poem was very good.
>
> I have a folder... My Documents> Writing> Poetry> Other Peoples... and you
r
> poem is in it :-)

Just don't give your therapist access to that folder.


> Sometimes, laughter is a form of rejection; we reject an idea or event by
> laughing at it (sometimes, the reality is too hard to accept). Maybe this
> comes in that category...or, maybe it was just a bit of fun. Either way,
> your effort on a tram in Holland, caused laughter half a world away.
>
> Thanks for that :-)

My pleasure -- and that of the other tram passengers, whose mood was
lightened by having a laughing fool ride amongst them.