Re: a comment on Oh Merry Fay (part 1) by ALChemy	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	13-Dec-05/2:09 PM
Yeah, that seems to be a recurring quality in my lyrics. I too have Irish blood but nobody I know in my family has an Irish accent. I must be trying to get in touch with my roots or something. You know, sometimes when I read this I hear it to the music of "Thank God I'm a Country Boy".
Re: a comment on Bri's Room (not done) by Sunshine Conkey	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	13-Dec-05/1:59 PM
That's what I mean. It's futile. There are just to many factors, to much room for biasness. The testing is important in that it little by little narrows the margin. Maybe some day we will have done enough unbias testing that we can feel safe to reach some sort of conclusion but till then we're just jumping to one.
Re: I saw Your Face Last Night by Dovina	wilco 24.92.74.122	13-Dec-05/1:55 PM
To be honest, I didn't even realize this was you until I went back and looked to see who the writer was. I think you're selling yourself short here. I really thought this was done by one of our kiddieposters (albeit a more advanced one.)
Re: a comment on Bri's Room (not done) by Sunshine Conkey	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	13-Dec-05/1:46 PM
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts. - Booker T. Washington Well done is better than well said. - Benjamin Franklin He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. - Henry Ward Beecher It's easy to make a buck. It's tougher to make a difference. - Tom Brokaw Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. - Ayn Rand and my personal favorite: The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw
Re: Relics in Entropy by PsydewaysTears	wilco 24.92.74.122	13-Dec-05/1:44 PM
You could shorten this down, make it a little more cohesive and tight and have thre different poems.
Re: a comment on Bri's Room (not done) by Sunshine Conkey	zodiac 69.132.67.140	13-Dec-05/1:18 PM
Obviously IQ tests are biased for writing (and for white Western males!) However, how else are you going to define intelligence besides, 'the thing that intelligence tests measure'? Be sure to make your result empirically testable and measurable. SOME CHICK USER: Testing and measuring is SO white, Western male! ZODIAC: Yes, but without empiricism things tend to get sort of squishy around here. SOME CHICK USER: We like squishy! ZODIAC: That's fine. But the moment you thought you could handle a systematic argument on the matter, you chucked your hat in the ring of empiricism. You can't get out now. No, wait, you can. And should. Just say, Out, out, and rub your hands with an obsessive scrubbing motion.
Re: Observer by Dovina	wilco 24.92.74.122	13-Dec-05/1:17 PM
I think putting it in the past tense would definitely add to it. Also, I'm not really digging the last stanza (mainly the last line). First two stanzas are a 9 but the last drops it tro a 7.
Re: no title by candaliesa	wilco 24.92.74.122	13-Dec-05/1:12 PM
Nothing I can say that hasn't already been said. This is a good starting point, now work on it and get better.
Re: a comment on Oh Merry Fay (part 1) by ALChemy	zodiac 69.132.67.140	13-Dec-05/1:10 PM
Yes. But I'm still getting Irish, mostly.
Re: a comment on War (edit) by zodiac	zodiac 69.132.67.140	13-Dec-05/1:09 PM
My littlest brother is an Engineering junior at UNCC. What's with all the North Carolinians all of a sudden? PS-As of Jan 4 I'm an Alaskan. I'll send you all bear claw necklaces.
Re: a comment on Bri's Room (not done) by Sunshine Conkey	Sunshine Conkey 64.12.116.138	13-Dec-05/1:02 PM
This was for my 5 yr old grand-daughter BRIanna & my youngest daughter, saBRIna. They share a room.
Re: a comment on Bri's Room (not done) by Sunshine Conkey	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	13-Dec-05/12:55 PM
Making conclusions from polls and stats is shaky. Were the IQ tests written or oral(most likely written if on a national scale)? I scored 30 points higher on my oral IQ test than on my written. Like I said, shaky. I think you'll find as life teaches you over the years that the average number of rich dumb people to rich poor people is about the same as it is with poor or middle class folks. Ther are so many factors that go into intelligence that to make any big deal out of just one of them as if it's a major factor is just silly. Lincoln, Einstein, Da Vinci, Poe and even Edison were from poor or middle class at best origins. If anything the most influencial people in the world tended to be born middle class. Most likely because they had access to education but weren't spoiled into complacency. Darwin can tell you why Americans appear to be smarter than the Japanese. That and most of the smartest Japenese people move to America and become Americans thus increasing our IQ. Don't get me wrong. Money certainly is an important factor and motivation for knowledge but it's like saying you're less of a man when you don't have a wife when you say your poor so you're likely to be dumb.
Re: a comment on Bri's Room (not done) by Sunshine Conkey	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	13-Dec-05/12:06 PM
He was writing it about American Democracy and why it prospered where others failed.
Re: a comment on The mountain has come to Mohammed by ALChemy	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	13-Dec-05/11:36 AM
Religion has little to do with war. It's just greed using religion as an excuse.
Re: a comment on War (edit) by zodiac	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	13-Dec-05/11:32 AM
Ps. Lil, I hear the Raleigh college does the same.
Re: a comment on War (edit) by zodiac	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	13-Dec-05/11:26 AM
I'm in Concord. Zodiac you should apply at UNCC they offer free classes to employees, great benefits and the cheerleaders look like the booty girls in those rap videos. Of course you're married but lookin' never hurt nobody.
Re: a comment on Oh Merry Fay (part 1) by ALChemy	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	13-Dec-05/11:12 AM
The title says it all. It's about trying to find happiness while knowing you're doomed to die soon and how crazy it makes you. Can you see any of the hidden WWII references?
Re: a comment on Oh Merry Fay (part 1) by ALChemy	zodiac 69.132.67.140	13-Dec-05/11:07 AM
Oh. Cool. Reading it with Jabberwocky in mind, I can see where you got the rhythm, rhyme, and a lot of the structure. Odd that I didn't see it until I was told, though. Extra points for that.
Re: a comment on Oh Merry Fay (part 1) by ALChemy	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	13-Dec-05/11:04 AM
It amazes me how many of my poems you get without even knowing you get it.
Re: a comment on Oh Merry Fay (part 1) by ALChemy	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	13-Dec-05/11:02 AM
Sorry about the punctuation and some of the grammar. I actually intended "They're". "They are numbers large" Just sounded more like what the strange talking narrator would say.