Re: a comment on Blessings by amanda_dcosta	Ranger 86.131.55.53	22-Jun-06/4:55 AM
I wouldn't interpret anything you said as anti-English. You're too enlightned to resort to those sorts of attitudes. If you said that we were all a bunch of cucumber sandwich-munching, pretentious, arrogant fools mixed with a portion of football hooligans I'd assume it was irony (although you wouldn't be too far from the truth). I didn't read the comment though; I don't read her poems since the first couple. They just make the insults I've received from her about my poetic failings all the more difficult to swallow.
Re: a comment on Blessings by amanda_dcosta	Ranger 86.131.55.53	22-Jun-06/4:45 AM
Exams went swimmingly, I actually wrote a paper about the problem of evil and more or less annihilated the argument above. It was the most fun I've ever had in test although I had to forcibly stop myself writing "of all the logical turds I've ever come across, this is the brownest". You're spot on about the way in which facts become almost as vague as theories when reinterpreted. It also depends a hell of a lot on assumptions made. I was told of a theory which says that if mainstream assumptions in physics and evolution are correct, then it also entails that the planet can't be as old as it is. I don't know the name/proposers of the theory, so thus far my attempts to research it have been in vain (not that I've tried much) but I think it goes like this: If the world is as old as it's supposed to be, and its rate of spin has been slowing at a constant rate since its creation, then at the beginning of its life the world would have been spinning too fast to hold itself together. Again, that's dependent on various assumptions - and I wouldn't try to use it as an argument until I actually knew more about it (can anyone point me in the right direction?) but it's an intriguing take on history. Also, England could do with being the only team in their next couple of games. We should beat Ecuador, but then it's either Holland or Portugal...and right now I'm not confident. Damn football. My nerves have been systematically shredded over the last couple of matches. You keeping up with the USA's progress?
Re: Plot twist by annadoc	Ranger 86.131.55.53	22-Jun-06/4:28 AM
This is fantastic, although I'd have liked fewer questions and more elaboration on those which remain. 'Do nightmares only occur at night...Do only winged creatures and flying machines take flight?' is such a wonderful passage. I don't really know what you could leave out of this despite my taste for fewer questions, nor do I think it needs to be any longer. I really don't know what to suggest. Possibly the wish and dream lines could go, they're the weakest of the lot. I'd also leave out the very first line (is it an alternative title?) In spite of the flaws, I absolutely love this.
Re: Spongey Disease by lukehanney	Ranger 86.131.55.53	22-Jun-06/4:23 AM
I think this poem is about theological discussions on the four horsemens' forums. They certainly leave me that way. Tip-top and tickety-boo.
Re: ODE TO NICHOLAS JONES III by lukehanney	Ranger 86.131.55.53	22-Jun-06/4:18 AM
'But I can't read them...I'm diabetic' is probably the funniest thing I've come across this week.
Re: a comment on Dear George Bush by scitz	lmp 141.154.134.3	21-Jun-06/7:38 AM
" how soon before one of your slutty popstars pops Prince William's cherry." then they can have their own version of "slick willy"! wooo!
Re: a comment on Dear George Bush by scitz	lmp 141.154.134.3	21-Jun-06/7:37 AM
spot on, good chap. a jolly good rip at the lousy limey! his commentary was a rather riotous read, eh?
Re: a comment on All Hail! All Hail! America The Golden! by Edna Sweetlove	lmp 141.154.134.3	21-Jun-06/6:52 AM
you may enjoy this: http://www.kottke.org/05/02/loo-etymology
Re: All Hail! All Hail! America The Golden! by Edna Sweetlove	lmp 141.154.134.3	21-Jun-06/6:49 AM
it is a "loo" or a "watercloset", you dung encrusted farthole. a lavatory is a handwashing sink. otherwise, i totally agree with your... poem? sadly, my passport says i am american but i am none of the perfectly described things you listed here. those are the people who elected the hairy bush. bravo. funny you omitted the part about how old george (i mean king george) wanted to hang onto those uncouth colonies... he sure did want all the timber. sadly, the very bastards that were transported trounced the silly stiffnecked redcoats soundly enough to send them packing their heds up their asses before they hopped back across the grey atlantic. (notice the correct spelling of grey).
Re: a comment on A Sexy Crucifixion Poem by Edna Sweetlove	ALChemy 71.75.188.128	21-Jun-06/6:33 AM
I don't want to burn in hell for giving it a ten. I spotted you a couple on some of the other poems though.
Re: Ted and Fred by worldsofwar	Edna Sweetlove 85.210.13.138	21-Jun-06/4:48 AM
Appallingly rhymed and written. A deserving 0/10. Well done dear.
Re: late night activities by sooz	Edna Sweetlove 85.210.13.138	21-Jun-06/4:46 AM
Pathetically unfunny. I have seen funnier things in my underpants.
Re: "My Love" by wickedemon4	Edna Sweetlove 85.210.13.138	21-Jun-06/4:44 AM
Truly terrible apart from the thong bit. Thongs for the memory!
Re: Revisiting Old Wounds by ObiWonKn	Edna Sweetlove 85.210.13.138	21-Jun-06/4:43 AM
Beat out that rhythm on a pew, man! Cool! Groovy!
Re: Ah! That Love Would'st Lead Me by EggbertShootsFire	Edna Sweetlove 85.210.13.138	21-Jun-06/4:41 AM
Charmingly archaic. Unfairl consigned to the wastes of worst poems. I shall rescue it from there!
Re: All Hail! All Hail! America The Golden! by Edna Sweetlove	Edna Sweetlove 85.210.13.138	21-Jun-06/3:52 AM
For the less intelligent among you (and he knows who he is) this is satire.
Re: I'm Back! by wEdible Underpantsw	Edna Sweetlove 85.210.13.138	21-Jun-06/3:46 AM
Downmarket trash. Well worthy of a poemwanker award.
Re: Distastefully Hairy Quendo by w╞╦╩╤╦╩╣ ╠╤╦╧╩╡w	Edna Sweetlove 85.210.13.138	21-Jun-06/3:43 AM
Funnier than my Auntie's death from syphilis.
Re: Charter Of Rights by EAger to Offend	Edna Sweetlove 85.210.13.138	21-Jun-06/3:42 AM
Obscure and unclear.
Re: Nocturnal Emissions by EAger to Offend	Edna Sweetlove 85.210.13.138	21-Jun-06/3:42 AM
Pretty dreary this one.