Re: a comment on Stream of Consciousness (#2) by MacFrantic	MacFrantic 129.82.30.38	31-Jan-07/10:10 AM
nay, I type slow
Re: a comment on Darkroom Dancer by MacFrantic	MacFrantic 129.82.30.38	31-Jan-07/10:07 AM
yep
Re: a comment on Darkroom Dancer by MacFrantic	MacFrantic 129.82.30.38	31-Jan-07/10:07 AM
yep
Re: Controlled Euthanasia by Dovina	SupremeDreamer 75.35.231.137	31-Jan-07/9:59 AM
I pressed in the plunger and ran to the john afraid but not sorry it had to be done Ok, say this out loud to yourself. Notice anything? I do. John doesn't ryhme with done. Perhaps Don, but not done. That aside, I bless you with an eight.
Re: a comment on Journey To The Centre Of The Loom by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	-=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 75.214.140.13	31-Jan-07/8:51 AM
"A dobby loom is an alternative to a treadle loom. Each of them is a floor loom in which every warp thread on the loom is attached to a single shaft using a device called a heddle. A shaft is sometimes known as a harness, but this terminology is becoming obsolete among active weavers."
Re: Bitter by Ranger	Prince of Void 213.207.253.83	31-Jan-07/8:36 AM
all the ghosts... all the ghosts... made my vote your mind is happy butI'm telling you you should learn to let it go
Re: a comment on Journey To The Centre Of The Loom by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	Ranger 62.252.32.15	31-Jan-07/8:22 AM
Please remember this is poemeranker, therefore the correct spelling is 'Loomington'.
Re: a comment on Alternatives by Dovina	Ranger 62.252.32.15	31-Jan-07/8:20 AM
I know the Islamist mindset perfectly well; someone I was acquainted with is an Islam, and he beat up a nightclub bouncer for saying 'No Pakis in here mate'. If that's not irrational violence, I don't know what is.
Re: a comment on Alternatives by Dovina	ecargo 167.219.88.140	31-Jan-07/8:16 AM
Your lack of knowledge of the "Islamist mindset" doesn't stop you from spouting all sorts of generalizations. FWIW, Iraq was not a particularly fundie country.
Re: a comment on Alternatives by Dovina	ecargo 167.219.88.140	31-Jan-07/8:12 AM
Now, now--you're extrapolating an awful lot from what I actually said. Who are the "them" I'm not supporting--your imaginary, self-sacrificing, magical technologists? I said YOU failed, which I meant in the Poemranker comment context of "failed" (an amusing, site-specific device, much like "bow'ls"). (Yes, certainly, Rumsfeld--and his vision of technological sugarplums--failed, which is not to suggest that I'm "anti-technology" in some blanket way.) And no one said anything about bonkers. I do think you're bonkers (and a little too fond of the Southern Comfort), but that belief far predated this exchange--and, for what it's worth, I think we're all pretty much loony here, so you're in good company. I'm not sure if the pastel blue poetry site is cause of or magnet for lunacy (perhaps both), but here we are. However, I don't think any alternatives we might offer in limping rhythms and flat end rhymes are going to "solve" Iraq. If it were just a matter of building a better mousetrap, our feckless leaders would come up with a better plan than throwing a few more troops into the mix (who won't even have the benefit of the necessary armor and Humvees according to news reports). It's very easy to talk about "sacrifices" when they're always someone else's sacrifices, innit? I applaud your efforts here though! Well done! Very proactive!
Re: a comment on Journey To The Centre Of The Loom by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	Stephen Robins 213.146.148.199	31-Jan-07/7:55 AM
No in LyMINGton, which is a jolly ice place which makes the fact they live in a shed even more remarkable. Swindon doesn't have much to recommend it other than the M4 as a means of escape.
Re: a comment on Journey To The Centre Of The Loom by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	Ranger 62.252.32.15	31-Jan-07/7:36 AM
Never a truer word spoken. Wiltshire is beautiful, except - or so I hear - for Warminster and Trowbridge. And it's not just Stonehenge which has the attraction. Some years ago my best friend's family decided to walk the Ridgeway; I joined them for the last six miles (ending just outside East Kennet) and it was wonderful. I am a Hampshire lad though - anyone living in such accommodation must live either on one of the military bases or in Popley.
Re: a comment on Journey To The Centre Of The Loom by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	Ranger 62.252.32.15	31-Jan-07/7:31 AM
Bram Stoker's Draculoom is another classic.
Re: a comment on Journey To The Centre Of The Loom by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	Stephen Robins 213.146.148.199	31-Jan-07/6:36 AM
Wiltshire, splendid county, the best by gad! Lots of top rectory's inhabited by old colonels in maroon cords who wander around marshalling their wifes lap dogs and barking with a face like a Christmas ham fully loving the fact they are a walking anachronism. I have property interests in Wiltshire, or at least my in-laws own a substantial plot. However chances of my Father leaving the shires to "go-to-town" are less than nil during the season. He takes a house in London during the Summer like all other excellent people belonging to society. I refer of course to the real me not the me that is portrayed as Stephen Robins. His parents are tremendously poor and live in a prefabricated box in Hampshire. The real me has an excellent face without any hint of a triangle – my jawline is simply awesome, I also own more land that a golly prince in Lesotho.
Re: a comment on Journey To The Centre Of The Loom by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	Ranger 62.252.32.15	31-Jan-07/6:10 AM
You are right, of course. Intellect and niceness rarely sit well together; a fact belied by my lopsided, foppish grin. I shall keep my mumblings contained within my sack next time. By the way, on Salisbury station the other day I saw a gentleman with a face like a slightly overweight triangle and brogues which had been buffed to the point of actually generating their own light (not by his own hands, they were spotless). He was waiting for the London train with the relaxed demeanour of one who knows that it doesn't matter when he arrives at the Gentleman's Club, because there will always be a fresh plate of sandwiches and a steaming Spotted Dick in the kitchens. Was he your dad?
Re: a comment on Menopause by Stephen Robins	Stephen Robins 213.146.148.199	31-Jan-07/5:28 AM
Are you flirting with rockmage?
Re: Alternatives by Dovina	Stephen Robins 213.146.148.199	31-Jan-07/5:26 AM
Why do you get so many comments on your poems? they are veritable common rooms for 'rankers. And, in much the same way as a common room is an empty vessel waiting for the chatter of a bunch of "know it all" spotty drug addicts with amusingly grown facial hair, the appearance of the room is of little import in connection with conversations had therein.
Re: a comment on Journey To The Centre Of The Loom by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	Stephen Robins 213.146.148.199	31-Jan-07/5:21 AM
Ranger, as lovely a person as you are it appears to me that you do like blundering around like a dunce in a sack besmirching gentleman's conversations about various weaving and warping machines and the Radio 4 triumph I'm sorry I haven't a clue. Anyone with any sense knows that Camden is an offside move owing to the "Edgeware Branch" convention of 1957.
Re: HIGHER by Radiation	Ranger 62.252.32.15	31-Jan-07/4:54 AM
The poeme suggests a postmodern analysis of the metaphysical limits of contemporary binary logic; through the title we can see that the afterlife is indeed a higher plane of existence, but the dread Halls of Mandos can only be accessed through an infinite fall. The implication of such spiritual reverse gravity is at once fascinating and haunting; this hauntology is similar to a certain exploration of Marxist theory and, for all its wonder, is bow'ls.
Re: a comment on Alternatives by Dovina	Ranger 62.252.32.15	31-Jan-07/4:48 AM
It was, although I told my dad about it and he thought the idea of a world without children was heaven.