regarding some deleted poem...	28-Feb-05/10:02 PM
This is simply preposterous. I wouldn't have thought it possible, but your relationship with tpbrod is actually hurting your poetry.
regarding some deleted poem...	28-Feb-05/10:02 PM
Sometimes I simply can't believe your an adult.
Re: Background Noise by Plaidypus	28-Feb-05/10:04 PM
Did you just watch the movie "Girl with a Pearl Earring"? Just a wild guess.
regarding some deleted poem...	28-Feb-05/10:08 PM
Was the event really a Penispeople Busboarding? How odd!
regarding some deleted poem...	28-Feb-05/10:10 PM
Drop the word "Remember". From everywhere.
Re: The Sky Is My Nation by fetisha	28-Feb-05/10:12 PM
Q1: What about wars that actually take place mostly in the sky? Like, say, the last ten. Q2: What is involved in being patriotic to a nation with no laws? I wouldn't have thought it possible.
Re: The Stab by fetisha	28-Feb-05/10:16 PM
Some advice: Don't call yourself insane in a poem, or anywhere else for that matter. Trust me, being an Insane isn't all as cute as Benny & Joon or whatever. Most of them are missing a whole lot of teeth, stink to high heaven, and aren't anything even the most selfobsessed of misanthropes want to look like. If you saw a real one, you'd know what I was talking about.
Re: Advertising says: by Dovina	6-Mar-05/7:17 AM
Why isn't different an adverb?
Re: ...on the Benefits of Being Ugly by Goad	7-Mar-05/2:13 AM
I don't think you get that in limericks the rhyming words are supposed to be funny ones. Or even just odd ones, like - oh I don't know - 'laser,' 'Negro,' or 'rupture'.
Re: You Fell Asleep First by jessicazee	7-Mar-05/5:07 AM
I know a Canadian here whose knobs log me off every time.
Re: The Reply by LintyWeenis	7-Mar-05/5:10 AM
re "What can I say that hasn't already been said?" A lot of things, if you wrote about anything else :-(
Re: Oh! To be pressed against your windowpane by skaskowski	7-Mar-05/5:12 AM
"part of" bothered me. The rest is really quite good.
Re: How to make a suicide bomber by Caducus	11-Mar-05/9:38 PM
Suppose a couple of million, say, British were somehow instantaneously teleported to Iraq and all Iraqis somehow teleported to Britain, so that the Britons suddenly find themselves occupied by an insensitive blundering foreign superpower and the Iraqis find themselves serving cranberry scones at Starbucks (this part is actually true). Do you think the Britons would become suicide bombers? Do you think the Iraqis wouldn't?
Re: genious by the_poetess	11-Mar-05/9:46 PM
Genius is misspelled.
Re: To those that would teach poetry by INTRANSIT	11-Mar-05/9:54 PM
"To those that would teach poetry" should be "To those who would teach poetry". But I guess that's the whole point.
Re: Apostrophetic Loss by Dovina	11-Mar-05/10:05 PM
Colloquialisms usually don't use apostrophes - they're spoken. On the odd instance when they're written, they're written with apostrophes. I think you just mean another word. And what the hell are you talking about? The "renegade poet comedians" (except Jeremi) are the only ones writing correct grammar here. PS-Bow'ls is a real word and real usage. Bet you've got no rebuttal but "Your unsupported"! Whatever.
Re: an unbiased voice (or the most biased one you'll hear) by i_am_the_popsicle	11-Mar-05/10:24 PM
Yesterday my Iraqi barber explained it to me this way: During Saddam's time, all cigarette lighters in Iraq cost 10 cents. If a merchant tried to sell a lighter for 11 cents, Saddam's police would come and kill him. That's protection. True story.
Re: Subtle Reasons by crooked_smile	11-Mar-05/10:32 PM
Please tell me you read my response before deleting it. Everybody else did, apparently, so what difference does it make. In fact, you can just select one of the following easy responses: A) I read your comment, found it cast my poem in a bad light, was afraid of it dragging down my voting, but didn't want to change the poem so it wasn't sexist. PS-I notice richa said the same thing. Do you believe me now?
Re: Apostrophetic Loss by Dovina	12-Mar-05/4:27 AM
"But Woods' critics on the right belong to what might be called the conservative elite—neoconservatives and libertarians — whereas Hannity, Buchanan, and the radio talk-show hosts are, like their most fervid followers, essentially populist. Whatever jabs they may take at the liberal media or at academia, conservative elites, like their (elite) liberal adversaries (and here I'm generalizing), harbor an underlying respect for the values of higher education, science, reason, and expertise. Conservative populists, on the other hand, more often exhibit scorn for intellectual authority altogether. For a while now, conservative elites have made common cause, sometimes cynically, with populist anti-intellectuals. Once upon a time, the original neoconservatives — the academics and intellectuals around the journal the Public Interest — rested their critiques of liberalism on penetrating social science scholarship and attacked the left for preferring bleeding-heart sentiment to polemical rigor. But now the Public Interest is defunct, and in the Bush years, conservatism has embraced not only the familiar ridicule of the eggheads but a rejection of the very legitimacy of independent, nonpartisan expert authority. The wisdom of legal professionals, such as those in the American Bar Association, is now denied, and, since George Bush took office, no longer used by the White House in evaluating candidates for federal judgeships. Mainstream journalism, such as that in the major newspapers and network news shows, is deemed liberal, slanted, and unreliable. The faith-based belief in creationism, enjoying renewed support of late, is accorded equal (or greater) weight as the scientific theory of evolution." - www.slate.com/id/2114713/
Re: Sauvignon by Dovina	12-Mar-05/10:45 PM
Have you ever drunk a bottle of wine costing more than, oh, $10? This is not poetry. It's a bad idea on its last legs.