Re: a comment on Oh Merry Fay (part 1) by ALChemy	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	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: a comment on Bri's Room (not done) by Sunshine Conkey	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: a comment on Bri's Room (not done) by Sunshine Conkey	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	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	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	13-Dec-05/11:32 AM
Ps. Lil, I hear the Raleigh college does the same.
Re: a comment on War (edit) by zodiac	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	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	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	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.
Re: a comment on Oh Merry Fay (part 1) by ALChemy	13-Dec-05/10:57 AM
Jabberwocky. The idea was to convey a story while filling it with words that don't exist. Most of those words do imply certain things though.
Re: a comment on War (edit) by zodiac	13-Dec-05/5:30 AM
Hogwash. You love to being pigeonholed as The Guy Who Makes Weird Metaphors. Your last statement could be a metaphor for the entire country. We're just reflecting the place we live in. This is usually the case in most art.
Re: a comment on War (edit) by zodiac	13-Dec-05/5:24 AM
Personally I think, cliche as it is, that there's something about the south, and maybe Ireland, that says welcome home.
Re: a comment on I saw Your Face Last Night by Dovina	13-Dec-05/3:20 AM
You should have seen him on book TV(alive and well I might add). I think he's going a little senile.
Re: a comment on Bri's Room (not done) by Sunshine Conkey	13-Dec-05/3:12 AM
I'm thinking the campaign your on is for responsible citizenship as de Tocqueville would put it. Lord knows we could start with our president. de Tocqueville's got a nice fish out of water perspective of America.
Re: a comment on Bri's Room (not done) by Sunshine Conkey	13-Dec-05/3:05 AM
Here: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/home.html
Re: a comment on War (edit) by zodiac	13-Dec-05/2:51 AM
So the real driving force behind this poem is your wife and yeast. Don't worry I won't make any connections between the two I promise.
Re: a comment on War (edit) by zodiac	13-Dec-05/2:44 AM
LOL. You must be in NC as we speak.
Re: a comment on War (edit) by zodiac	13-Dec-05/2:42 AM
I go through this type of exchange at work almost on a daily basis. Usually when it gets that bad I'll refer to an old Abbott and Costello routine a holler out "Thirrrd base."