Re: a comment on Suburbia in December by Nicholas Jones	25-Oct-02/6:56 AM
Actually, it does rhyme. I don't mind mindless abuse, but try and base it in reality.
Re: George Bush, Jesus Christ, and the good ole US of A! by dougsoderstrom	24-Oct-02/6:47 AM
By the way, are you really a professor? Should I call you Prof. Doug?
Re: Coloured waifs home by horus8	24-Oct-02/6:30 AM
Wistful. Very lovely.
Re: oedipus is raising a pint to me now by <~>	23-Oct-02/7:41 AM
How're your parents?
Re: oedipus is raising a pint to me now by <~>	23-Oct-02/7:40 AM
Very complex!
Re: One liners for the ladies by INTRANSIT	23-Oct-02/7:38 AM
Isn't there somehting somewhat incestuous going on in the middle there?
Re: a comment on Truths by Nicholas Jones	23-Oct-02/7:35 AM
I'm glad you can appreciate the poem without agreeing with the politics. But you still sound like a Tory to me.
Re: a comment on Truths by Nicholas Jones	23-Oct-02/7:33 AM
That's all right wing nonsense. Do you use the NHS? Receive any social security benefits? Do you fancy having a pension when you get old? All those things are tangible benefits of socialist thinking. Never forget it was Nye Bevan, finest Labour politician in history, who created the health service. As it goes, I do feel guilty for having been born middle class, when my grandfather was a coal miner for fifty years. By the way, do you appreciate the reference to the Labour Party constitution at the end? It's probably a bit obscure, really.
Re: a comment on Stockport by Nicholas Jones	23-Oct-02/7:28 AM
Thank you for clearing that up. To me, a biscuit is something sweet and crunch - perhaps what might otherwise be called a cookie. They form a vital part of my life.
Re: a comment on Brothers and Sisters by bondjedi	23-Oct-02/1:39 AM
I don't think they did, but if you leave a piece of cheese long enough I'm sure insects will appear. He's among the top ten Britons as voted by the more cretinous watchers of BBC1. I mean, what the hell is Diana doing on that list?
Re: a comment on The Dreamer by Nicholas Jones	23-Oct-02/1:36 AM
You can't beat a good sonnet. It is always sobering to think that all the great poets, from Petrarch and Shakespeare onwards, have used the same form; I cannot possibly compete, but it's fun to try.
Re: a comment on The Canvassers by Nicholas Jones	23-Oct-02/1:33 AM
I quite like the idea of doors being by streets, but it probably should be on. By seems a better word to start a poem with, even if it doesn't quite make sense.
Re: Brothers and Sisters by bondjedi	23-Oct-02/1:32 AM
Interesting. Did you know that whn Isaac Newton was admitted to the Royal Society, they were investigating how to make insects out of cheese?
Re: a comment on Stockport by Nicholas Jones	23-Oct-02/1:21 AM
I think the combat trousers revival will happen any day now. I like your use of the word toppermost. John Lennon, before the Beatles were successful, said they wanted to the toppermost of the poppermost. I'm kind of surprised people seem to like this poem, because I think it's weaker than most of my others. I'm a little concerned everyone thinks I hate the place, which isn't true.
Re: a comment on Stockport by Nicholas Jones	23-Oct-02/1:12 AM
No, Stockport is not the arsehole of the world. That'd be Oldham. No, not really. I grew up in Stockport and have a great deal of affection for it. But the poem seems to be a lot more curmudgeonly than I intended. I think I'm just prone to negativity. Go to http://www.stockport.g-br.com/tour for some nice pictures.
Re: a comment on Stockport by Nicholas Jones	23-Oct-02/1:08 AM
A chocolate digestive is a biscuit covered with chocolate. McVities are the finest makers of these biscuits. It is the king of biscuits.
Re: A love of the midlands by ==Doylum	22-Oct-02/1:23 AM
I've never been to Telford. But I've been to Shrewsbury.
Re: a comment on Jose Rizal(Our beloved) by Ninoy_Instigator	20-Oct-02/5:08 AM
Poetry can be whatever we want it to be. There's no need to make definitions.
Re: A Sign on a Giant Donut at a Twenty Four Hour a Day Donut Shop Overlooking Pacific Coast Highway in Sunset Beach California at Eight in the Evening on September Twenty Fourth Two-Thousand and Two by Dark Angle	20-Oct-02/5:07 AM
Hmm. Doughnuts is one of those words where the American spelling really annoys me for no real reason.
Re: a comment on Ode to Larkbeat Twoshoes by Nicholas Jones	20-Oct-02/4:31 AM
That was deliberately, but maybe it doesn't work. I guess it emphasises the sense of the importance of a single moment of time, but also that time is an ongoing process.