Re: a comment on Poetic Profit by Dovina	8-Jan-05/5:58 AM
Why can't you just admit that a belch can be, and indeed often is, weak?
Re: a comment on Math Poem 3 by Dovina	8-Jan-05/5:56 AM
Hey! Funny math words! -0- :-(
Re: a comment on Math Poem 3 by Dovina	8-Jan-05/5:53 AM
Jesus Christ.
Re: a comment on Betwixt and In Between by dougsoderstrom	6-Jan-05/5:56 AM
Are you fucking serious? Look, you essentially said in your dissertation "people who had X qualities scored generally higher on a test of Y, which we define as 'having X qualities'." Then I made fun of you for it. Then you whemied off into the moonlight. Jesus. And no, I just guessed you were the kind of person to volunteer as a moonlight hike organizer.
Re: a comment on Betwixt and In Between by dougsoderstrom	6-Jan-05/5:51 AM
Homosexuals are predominantly higher-eds and liberals. Considering all of your subject group is higher ed, and the overwhelming majority is liberal, where do you think that puts the percentage of homo college professors in relation to the uberfaulty national average of 8.39%? A cookie if you get the right answer. However, you are the only one who whemies.
Re: a comment on My Wife by Dovina	6-Jan-05/5:24 AM
If you can't answer that, you've got no place writing poetry.
Re: a comment on My Wife by Dovina	6-Jan-05/5:19 AM
Um, that's what I meant. That it's sexist against women. Incidentally, Arabs get the expression "housewife" from American movies. Before that it was just "wife". Or, even better, "woman".
Re: a comment on Math Poem 3 by Dovina	6-Jan-05/5:13 AM
One of those is wrong. See if you can guess which!!!
Re: a comment on Poetic Profit by Dovina	6-Jan-05/5:10 AM
Don't go through life thinking any two people who think the same thing about you are "ganged up". For one thing, that's the justification for the Iraq War. Which, I needn't mention, makes you and the angels cry. I think the part you're not getting is that "smoke, beery air and hamburger grease" IS a belch. You're saying something equivalent to "roses smell like flowers" or "the brown stain soils my underbottoms like a turd."
Re: a comment on California triolets by zodiac	6-Jan-05/5:05 AM
You may not ask. I had to read a bunch of random dribble to find out, and I don't see any reason why you shouldn't have to. Okay, it's richa.
Re: Poetic Profit by Dovina	4-Jan-05/5:43 AM
I take issue with "like a belch". That's hardly even a simile.
Re: Attention: Superman's Coffee Break is From 1:35 to 1:37 by MacFrantic	4-Jan-05/4:46 AM
Not that great. -10-
Re: a comment on Betwixt and In Between by dougsoderstrom	3-Jan-05/11:36 PM
Incidentally, a study's shown that something like 80% of American college professors are liberals, no lie. And only 50% of them were gay.
Re: a comment on My Wife by Dovina	3-Jan-05/11:29 PM
Oh. Do you think the woman in the poem has the right to expect that her husband will genuinely want (and wholeheartedly try) to please her?
Re: a comment on California triolets by zodiac	3-Jan-05/11:23 PM
I'm not feeling it. If I were forced (probably at gunpoint) to name my favorite ee cummings line, I'd probably say "I will not kiss your fucking flag", which is not a great line of poetry, just a great use of the word fucking. If pressed further, I'd probably just trump and try to escape in the confusion. -zodia
Re: a comment on 38 Lines by auscot	3-Jan-05/11:18 PM
Yes, but this is Standard Bumling Response #[funny number].
Re: a comment on Betwixt and In Between by dougsoderstrom	3-Jan-05/11:15 PM
Both of you, please re-read the Frost poem. As you're bound to have been taught in Comp I (and since forgotten), Frost means the road not taken doesn't make any difference except to some guy who thinks it did because he's bum and people tend to think things make differences when they don't. To reiterate: Frost says I SHALL BE TELLING THIS WITH A SIGH Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the road less traveled by And that has made all the difference. [Emphasis added] In other words, the poem's about someone saying something, not about the truth or untruth of the something itself. Doug only says "And that has made all the difference." That's not only a bad ripoff, it's the exact opposite, like when Puff Daddy sampled that Sting song and made it all sweet and totally different. I've made pretty clear on this site before that I'm a big believer in the general coolness of higher education. This despite that the ranks of grad students and former grad students on poemranker include Doug PhD, crystal lane swift, a horde of other bumlings I've already forgotten, and myself. This is just offensive to me, not to mention a little frightening. An electroman1979 I can forgive, but you guys are supposed to know better.
Re: a comment on Mallard by richa	3-Jan-05/11:01 PM
The part I took issue with is "disparity". It struck me that chimera means something not necessarily disparate - that in fact it's almost certainly not. Now I'm not so sure. Rather, only a little ashamed of myself.
Re: a comment on Betwixt and In Between by dougsoderstrom	3-Jan-05/10:58 PM
Yes, I am serious. I wonder what it does for your Christian-humanist Weltanschauung that I'm a volunteer Retard Islam teacher in the Middle East, while you're just a volunteer "Moonlight Hike" organizer in Texas, and I'm not even a real Human-Christianist. re: your abstract. You remind me of the study I did in my undergrad years concluding that Intrinsically-Gay Gays, Commited-Gay Gays, and Truly-Gay Gays scored markedly higher on a Gayness Test than Casually Gay Gays, Only-Seemingly-Gay Gays, and Total-NonGays. We also noted that Gays often (but not always) tended to describe their lives as "Generally Gay".
Re: a comment on Math Poem 3 by Dovina	3-Jan-05/10:45 PM
One of my favorite things about this poem is that it's a shorter, mathier version of my Greyhound poem. It's also the least over-cocksure thing you've written, maybe. Does this mean you can put math poems to rest now?