Re: a comment on There by Dovina	zodiac 204.238.24.4	8-Mar-06/6:14 PM
Oh, so you're just full of beans?
Re: a comment on Breakfast by Dhanesh M Kumar	Ranger 62.252.32.15	8-Mar-06/6:11 PM
Cheeky so-and-so. Our boys get all the bum jobs while the rest of Europe sits around guarding bunkers. Aren't I enlightened!
Re: a comment on Breakfast by Dhanesh M Kumar	ALChemy 24.74.100.11	8-Mar-06/5:47 PM
Hey, do you think we've scared our little delicious pastry sounding named friend from responding to us?
Re: a comment on Breakfast by Dhanesh M Kumar	ALChemy 24.74.100.11	8-Mar-06/5:43 PM
And not a negro among them, go figure.
Re: a comment on Breakfast by Dhanesh M Kumar	ALChemy 24.74.100.11	8-Mar-06/5:40 PM
Incredible. Do you actually work at Comedy Central or is this good old fashion hard worked googling. Either way I tip my hat to you.
Re: a comment on Take heart, you are closer than you know by Bobjim	Bobjim 84.9.184.25	8-Mar-06/2:27 PM
Well I'm glad you thought it fit the rhythm I set, I didn't think it worked that well.
Re: a comment on There by Dovina	Dovina 17.255.240.138	8-Mar-06/2:16 PM
Obviously, yes.
Re: Take heart, you are closer than you know by Bobjim	Scarlett 66.210.233.6	8-Mar-06/2:10 PM
When I read this, I was humming along, as if written for a song. Enjoyed..
Re: a comment on Breakfast by Dhanesh M Kumar	ecargo 167.219.88.140	8-Mar-06/1:05 PM
Yeah, Powell, the good little soldier. Not just Rumsfeld; let's not forget Cheney, Wolfowitz, good ole Scooter Libby, Douglas Feith (of whom Lawrence Wilkerson, Powell's former Chief of Staff, said, "Seldom in my life have I met a dumber man" and whom Gen. Tommy Franks called "the fucking stupidest man on the face of the earth") and the rest of the good ole PNAC neocons.
Re: a comment on Breakfast by Dhanesh M Kumar	ecargo 167.219.88.140	8-Mar-06/12:50 PM
You can't handle the truthiness! Oh, okay, just for you: Jon Stewart: What about the most famous example of a seeming miscue by this White House. Bush in the flight suit on the aircraft carrier and then in front of the banner saying “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED” Steven Colbert: Jon Jon Jon Jon Jon, That’s just more of your western, linear, left to right, letter in consecutive order, syllable based, banner reading. The true message was there you just had to read the letters in anagram form as it was intended “CMON I LIED. SO SCAMPISH” You wanted it spelled out for you, Jon, there it is.
Re: a comment on Breakfast by Dhanesh M Kumar	ALChemy 24.74.100.11	8-Mar-06/12:15 PM
The least you could do is quote a legitimate source like The Daily Show w/Jon Stewart or The Cobert Report.
Re: a comment on Breakfast by Dhanesh M Kumar	ALChemy 24.74.100.11	8-Mar-06/12:07 PM
You know Dhanesh M Kumar is from India so Dhanesh probably hates the British more than America and it's black people.
Re: a comment on Breakfast by Dhanesh M Kumar	ALChemy 24.74.100.11	8-Mar-06/11:59 AM
Actually Powell was originally against the war. This was Rumsfeld's baby. Powell was pressured into getting involved. Rice had nothing to do with planning the war. Of course we've been trying to do this for decades, first the peaceful way, now this way. Guess what country we're going after next? If you guessed Iran give yourself a lollipop.
Re: a comment on Breakfast by Dhanesh M Kumar	ALChemy 24.74.100.11	8-Mar-06/11:43 AM
"There have been 2,509 coalition deaths, 2,304 Americans, one Australian, 103 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, two Danes, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Hungarian, 26 Italians, one Kazakh, one Latvian, 17 Poles, two Salvadoran, three Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and 18 Ukrainians in the war in Iraq as of March 8, 2006, according to a CNN count." No need to defend us because from the looks of it we're too busy defending you and everybody else. Besides we're not doing anything any other powerful country hasn't already done before.
Re: Kangaroos by Bobjim	Fayt 141.157.35.222	8-Mar-06/11:13 AM
lol. Enjoyable to read.
Re: Shouting at dogs by Bobjim	Fayt 141.157.35.222	8-Mar-06/11:12 AM
Very awkward poem, but its inventive. Ill give it a 7.
Re: Bent and Broken Wings by TLRufener	Ranger 62.252.32.15	8-Mar-06/10:08 AM
Line 12 needs a typo fixing. This was quite nice...but it left me feeling a little unsatisfied. I found the last three lines good, quite evocative, but the rest of the poem failed to build up to it enough. I think the problem is that it's a bit vague and somewhat cliched - 'Doing what the heart feels/Instead of what the mind thinks' don't really make me feel or think anything. 'Lying alone at night/Wrapped in unloving blankets' is good and could easily be built upon; give me solid images rather than hazy emotions. Still, this has plenty of potential.
Re: a comment on Spinning, reeling by ecargo	Ranger 62.252.32.15	8-Mar-06/9:58 AM
Hah! Personally I quite liked the ecargo approach, but I'll take your word for it!
Re: a comment on Breakfast by Dhanesh M Kumar	Ranger 62.252.32.15	8-Mar-06/9:56 AM
It was stanza two that did it, I got the feeling he was talking about the troops being the ones 'throwing apart' (which doesn't really make sense either) the skulls and being rejoiced by the oil; probably due to the current attitudes being hurled around by the media. I don't know what it's like across the water, but over here the press are having the times of their lives throwing out stories about our troops beating up 'innocent civilians' (the same innocent civilians who, it would seem, mortared them just seconds earlier). I'm sure I don't know nearly enough about it though. I liked your 'memo'! It put an amused smile on my face, although it took several efforts to get the link to work...probably my awful net connection than kaolin, but that didn't stop me swearing at all and sundry...
Re: a comment on Spinning, reeling by ecargo	ecargo 167.219.88.140	8-Mar-06/9:49 AM
hee--I dunno about that. The Wilfred Owen approach is probably more effective in the long run than the Gilbert & Sullivan approach. More memorable, anyway. ;)