Re: becoming by <~>	Edna Sweetlove 85.210.252.16	30-Jan-07/12:04 PM
When I read bollocks like "inexists" I reach for the zero score button................. And it gets worse. God almighty. This is NOT a pimple, it's an oozing pus-filled sore.
Re: Blinking by zodiac	Edna Sweetlove 85.210.252.16	30-Jan-07/11:58 AM
Unexpected bit about your cock. Have to give you marks for that one, dearie.
Re: a comment on Journey To The Centre Of The Loom by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	-=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 75.215.145.110	30-Jan-07/11:31 AM
Yes, yes you are right. But the Spinning Jenny pales in comparison to a Power Loom fitted with a Horrocks Variable Speed Batton. Checkmate, I believe.
Re: a comment on Journey To The Centre Of The Loom by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	Stephen Robins 89.240.35.100	30-Jan-07/9:08 AM
The Loom is second rate rubbish when compared to the spinning jenny.
Re: a comment on Menopause by Stephen Robins	Stephen Robins 89.240.35.100	30-Jan-07/9:06 AM
Thanks.
Re: Darkroom Dancer by MacFrantic	Ranger 62.252.32.15	30-Jan-07/8:04 AM
Not bad. Typo last word?
Re: a comment on Menopause by Stephen Robins	Ranger 62.252.32.15	30-Jan-07/7:52 AM
I just worked that one out, right this second ;-)
Re: a comment on Menopause by Stephen Robins	xxx 67.172.190.253	30-Jan-07/7:51 AM
Without the comma, It does not work, The genius is in the generosity of that comma!
Re: a comment on Menopause by Stephen Robins	Ranger 62.252.32.15	30-Jan-07/7:51 AM
Oh, it's the pause. Gotcha.
Re: a comment on Alternatives by Dovina	Ranger 62.252.32.15	30-Jan-07/7:47 AM
Excuse me, I'm off to feed some orphans.
Re: a comment on Alternatives by Dovina	ecargo 167.219.88.140	30-Jan-07/7:42 AM
LOL--you are far too young to be so cynical, Ranger. Please, earn it like the rest of us. ;)
Re: Menopause by Stephen Robins	ecargo 167.219.88.140	30-Jan-07/7:41 AM
Pleas. ap[p]les, alps flop, slap. eap.
Re: a comment on Alternatives by Dovina	Ranger 62.252.32.15	30-Jan-07/7:28 AM
SUGGESTION: Winning = control of Middle Eastern oil supplies = the ability to tell Russia where to stick it when they cut off our resources. Oh Christ, I think I just broke out in pimples.
Re: a comment on Alternatives by Dovina	Ranger 62.252.32.15	30-Jan-07/7:21 AM
I've said many times: the solution is to send all our football hooligans over to Muslimland with a few crates of Stella and a brick each. Two birds with one stone.
Re: a comment on Alternatives by Dovina	ecargo 167.219.88.140	30-Jan-07/7:20 AM
"Operation Enduring Freedom"--how pleased David Frum would be that you used the proper name. I think it was he who coined the term before going off to save duckies and bunnies. I always suspected there was a bit of irony in the moniker, but, hey, I'm just a little cynical. What's winning? Is being mired there for the next god-knows-how-many decades fighting in an internal civil war "winning"? Are the Sunnis, Shiites, and Kurds, in their various flavors, and anyone else with a yen for a share of wealth and power and some ancient festering grudge to avenge, going to start getting along if we drop enough bombs and fire enough rounds? Honestly, that's been one of the biggest fuck-ups of this entire war--we went in with no idea how to get out. The entire premise was bullshit, the "expert" predictions were bullshit, and the end result--where we are now--predictable and ignored. So is "winning" just "staying the course" and praying that--well, what? And I think you oversimplify how many people view the war. (Or maybe you don't.) I don't think Bush is "evil"--I think he's out of his league and ill-advised and pigheaded and determined to save his legacy at all costs. Like Dovina (apparently), he believes that the cost in blood and treasure is worth it to save him/us from "embarassment." All other things aside, there is no political or popular WILL to stay as long as we would need to stay--to spend the thousands of lives and trillions of dollars--to see any real improvement or real, measurable progress. Thus the opposition to benchmarks. Sending 20,000 additional troops is bunk. And no one else is going to step in with offers of aid at this point, because they know a losing proposition, in every sense, when they see it. There is no cavalry. "Operation Enduring Freedom wins," you say, "or everyone loses." But I always come back to the same question--if this is, as claimed, simply a front in the global war on "terra," how, exactly, does ensuring that another several generations of Muslims hate us help us in the end? As for "solutions," I have no fucking idea. I think we owe it to the Iraqis to help them get to some point of stability, quite honestly, but I don't know if that's even possible and I'm quite certain that neither the US nor the UK are going to commit to keeping troops there much longer (when Bush goes, so does our army, at the latest)--so where does that leave us?
Re: The Monday Hangover by Miggy	Ranger 62.252.32.15	30-Jan-07/7:18 AM
"White dribbles colors what is a black plane" Disability and racism; two of poemranker's favourite topics -010-
Re: Menopause by Stephen Robins	Ranger 62.252.32.15	30-Jan-07/7:16 AM
Do you really need the comma?
Re: a comment on Alternatives by Dovina	ecargo 167.219.88.140	30-Jan-07/7:15 AM
Who knew we had so many military minds here at the 'ranker? Better technology, you say--but that was Rumsfeld's vision from the start. He was going to transform the military--make it faster, stronger, more mobile by harnessing the power of cutting-edge technology to win the war "in weeks," remember? It was going to be a "cakewalk" by dint of our technological/scientific superiority. Your "solution" was smashed to pieces long, long ago. So you not only fail, you fail retroactively.
Re: a comment on Alternatives by Dovina	Dovina 75.82.94.71	29-Jan-07/4:58 PM
If we want to tell them something like, “You win. Lets meet and discuss the terms of our surrender,” it’s simple—just put Bush on television and have him say it. I hope we win this mess and save ourselves the embarrassment and chaos, but at the rate we’re going, who knows. Technologists just might, for example, develop a super-sniffer to tell us where the bombs are, or where they make them, or how they distribute them. We might learn to track their movements, their meetings, where they sleep, with a badguy-resonance-gizmo. I’m trying to kick technology butt here, and show how much we depend on them. Ok, kicking butt isn’t the way to do it, you say. Suggest something else then.
Re: Celebrity by horus8	-=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 75.214.77.62	29-Jan-07/1:34 PM
The Aladdin Hotel. Las Vegas. My room has a glass display case mounted on the wall. Inside, a silk tunic. The caption: "The Addams Family, Paramount Pictures 1991, Jimmy Workman as Pugsley Addams, Vest he wore in the film." Clearly I was at the bottom of the pile when they were distributing priceless memorabilia to all the rooms.