| Re: a comment on THE HANDS OF THE CLOCK by prettyktm |
31-Jul-05/1:47 AM |
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Is English your native language?
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| Re: The Worst Poem Ever Created (edited) by drnick |
29-Jul-05/4:43 AM |
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| Re: The Worst Poem Ever Created (edited) by drnick |
29-Jul-05/4:43 AM |
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| Re: Polar Bearings by impert&ent |
29-Jul-05/4:30 AM |
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Seriously, that's kind of clever. Because the only way you couldn't draw a line around the earth to pass between two objects is if one was on top of the other.
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| Re: Internet Junkie by cuddlytiger17 |
29-Jul-05/4:22 AM |
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Hey, you're right. It IS so much better than reality.
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| Re: My Mornings were Filled with Nightmares and Pies by T. Jonathron Remp |
29-Jul-05/4:18 AM |
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"Sweet smelling clouds Darken my skies" is the best description of the men's tent at an Arab wedding I've ever read.
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| Re: End of Me by sonawrote |
29-Jul-05/4:15 AM |
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Arabic is the most etymologically simple language I've ever heard of. For example, the Arabic slang word for "shit" is a combination of the roots "end" and "ball". The Qurannic word for "shit" is a combination of "to put onesself outside" and "oil".
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| Re: a comment on A Good Man Ruined by Dovina |
29-Jul-05/4:07 AM |
That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying IF you wrote it for yourself, it's great (if a little overexposed). IF you didn't, I don't think it works. Saying I wrote this for people who think like me is the same as saying I wrote this for myself.
I don't think it's a necessarily unhealthy realisation, but the way I think it would be healthy is not the way it's set up in the poem.
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| Re: Worth by Dovina |
28-Jul-05/12:11 AM |
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What's with the commas for apostrophes?
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| Re: a comment on A Good Man Ruined by Dovina |
28-Jul-05/12:10 AM |
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Then we're back at our old impasse. If you wrote this poem for yourself only, bully. If you had any other purpose or audience in mind, I just don't think it works. Besides, I don't believe thinking things are your own damn fault is very healthy.
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| Re: a comment on Stabbed with a Carrot by T. Jonathron Remp |
26-Jul-05/1:15 AM |
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This is all kind of a silly discussion. The truth is a carrot can simply hurt you, period. Not figuratively. Not because of your belief. Because you could stab somebody really hard with it. In my country we have carrots as thick as your wrist, and that's the friggin desert.
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| Re: a comment on Dovecote by zodiac |
26-Jul-05/1:12 AM |
If you live to give happiness, how can you have any certainty the net happiness of the world is increased? People could just be lying and saying "Oh, I love lilacs!" or "Great party, Dovina!" If you live for your own happiness, and assuming happiness for you doesn't mean garrotting toddlers or something, then aren't you at least sure to increase the happiness of the world by a small amount? And who really believes their own happiness requires somebody else's harm?
Because I have a feeling murderous or abusive deviance is going to come up somewhere, I'll go ahead and say I think people who supposedly get off on murder or hurting others are products of your philosophy (ie, living for your own pleasure rather than somebody else's is somewhat sinful) and not mine. At least that's what I get from movies and a kind of haphazard experience in mental health: If the guy weren't taught it's shameful to engage in normal sex/emoting/whatever, he'd probably do that instead of some furtive and twisted version of it.
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| Re: A thank you note(Not a poem at all) by thepinkbunnyofdoom |
26-Jul-05/1:04 AM |
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You are childish. This proves it.
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| Re: a comment on A Good Man Ruined by Dovina |
26-Jul-05/1:03 AM |
Are you drunk?
From the POV of Jimmy Buffet's song, the only people who don't know by the end of the song are the "some people" who claim it's the fault of a woman. From the POV of your poem, the only people who don't know are the people who "told" him it's woman's fault. Still not seeing the difference.
None of the rest of your comment comes across in the poem. So whether it rings with me is kind of immaterial. I think most of your commenters would agree.
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| Re: Where did the word "ORIGIN" come from? by T. Jonathron Remp |
26-Jul-05/1:00 AM |
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Don't you think the Romans probably knew what the word meant? And the Middle English? And, personally, I did. -7-
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| Re: a comment on A Good Man Ruined by Dovina |
24-Jul-05/2:45 AM |
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I don't see how yours is different at all. Jimmy Buffet thinks it's a woman's fault but knows it's really his. Your character thinks it's a woman's fault but knows it's really his. What gives?
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| Re: a comment on A Good Man Ruined by Dovina |
20-Jul-05/11:20 PM |
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Then the issue isn't even really unoriginality/plagiarism, it's that you're not questioning whether something Jimmy Buffet would say is particularly wise. I personally consider this a very bad move.
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| Re: a comment on matrimonal enemy by hendrimike |
18-Jul-05/11:04 PM |
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Yeah, that's probably why people have said "nickel in the machine" since machines actually ran on nickels. The problem isn't really the wording, it's that the whole image is way past its prime.
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| Re: a comment on A Good Man Ruined by Dovina |
18-Jul-05/11:01 PM |
re "there went a man I can understand"
Was he Jimmy Buffet? Consider:
"Some people claim that there's a WO - MAN TO BLAME,
But I know it's my own damn fault."
No points for originality.
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| Re: a comment on Almost Persuaded by Dovina |
18-Jul-05/10:55 PM |
Hey, thanks for your contribution. Does this mean you're back from vacationing in the Hebrides?
I was trying to say that if things like dark matter exist (or do the dark matter equivalent of existing) then the whole physical universe is pretty much the secret Wolfenstein level. But scientists would probably figure out ways to explain and predict it anyway. As you know perfectly well.
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