replying on I Go On by drumrgirl30
27 Jan 2004, 4:11 AM
Dear drumrgirl30,
Taking into account the previous comments about your poem, I suggest you rewrite the first two lines as follows:
Except insofar as I post poems about my feelings on a poetry website called poemranker.com, I keep my feelings to myself.
Except insofar as I splatter my emotions around the Internet willy-nilly like some sort of deranged Harris, I keep my emotions boxed up on a metaphorical internal shelf.
This rewrite will no doubt improve your credibility and your reputation for accuracy. It will, however, render the rest of the poem redundant. Accordingly, I suggest that lines 3 to 13 inclusive are scrapped altogether.
Yours &c.
Enderby Throbbington-Smythe Esq.
Taking into account the previous comments about your poem, I suggest you rewrite the first two lines as follows:
Except insofar as I post poems about my feelings on a poetry website called poemranker.com, I keep my feelings to myself.
Except insofar as I splatter my emotions around the Internet willy-nilly like some sort of deranged Harris, I keep my emotions boxed up on a metaphorical internal shelf.
This rewrite will no doubt improve your credibility and your reputation for accuracy. It will, however, render the rest of the poem redundant. Accordingly, I suggest that lines 3 to 13 inclusive are scrapped altogether.
Yours &c.
Enderby Throbbington-Smythe Esq.
replying on Captain Cannibal by Lenore
27 Jan 2004, 3:58 AM
LOLTTM
on The Ballade of Hollis Browne by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.
27 Jan 2004, 1:28 AM
James,
I trust you saw my reply at http://www.poemranker.com/poem-details.j
My source (whose name shall not be revealed) has informed me as follows.
1. You got a First in the first year and a First in the second year but - to the disappointment of absolutely everyone - a 2:1 at the end of your degree. Well done!
2. You "read" Computer Science. Again, well done!
3. A significant number of girls in your year "fancied" you because they saw you as being "the strong, silent type". Well done!
4. You were splendidly rude to my source, whom you so pointedly ignored, even though you lived on the same staircase as him for a year. My source discloses that you would turn your back on him when he entered the communal kitchen and ignore him completely when he attempted to say hello. Well done!
Ha ha! I love this game! I am THE WORLD'S BEST DETECTIVE. A cable television channel should be dedicated to broadcasting unflattering images of my swollen face TWENTY FOUR HOURS A DAY.
But I am slightly upset that you have failed so miserably to discover even the slightest piece of knowledge about me. You haven't even been able to discover my real name. Perhaps I managed to throw you off the scent with an amusing instance of "identity theft". Could do better if tried harder. -10-
I trust you saw my reply at http://www.poemranker.com/poem-details.j
My source (whose name shall not be revealed) has informed me as follows.
1. You got a First in the first year and a First in the second year but - to the disappointment of absolutely everyone - a 2:1 at the end of your degree. Well done!
2. You "read" Computer Science. Again, well done!
3. A significant number of girls in your year "fancied" you because they saw you as being "the strong, silent type". Well done!
4. You were splendidly rude to my source, whom you so pointedly ignored, even though you lived on the same staircase as him for a year. My source discloses that you would turn your back on him when he entered the communal kitchen and ignore him completely when he attempted to say hello. Well done!
Ha ha! I love this game! I am THE WORLD'S BEST DETECTIVE. A cable television channel should be dedicated to broadcasting unflattering images of my swollen face TWENTY FOUR HOURS A DAY.
But I am slightly upset that you have failed so miserably to discover even the slightest piece of knowledge about me. You haven't even been able to discover my real name. Perhaps I managed to throw you off the scent with an amusing instance of "identity theft". Could do better if tried harder. -10-
replying on His Master's Jodhpurs by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.
23 Jan 2004, 7:40 AM
It's hardly "basically identical" now, is it?
One in the poo.