Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: Amos Date: 26 Jan 10 - 05:25 PM WAV, old fruit, I have to concur with Spaw's assessment of your poetic skills and virtues, which I find to be inverted. On a scale of 1 to 100 they hover in the region of minus 75. I have seen worse, you will be glad to hear, but never so persistently promoted as though they were worth sharing. I am sure, however, there are other things you do quite well, so I suppose it would not hurt to give up on the rhyes now that you have been through the whole inventory multiple times with rather little acceptance. A |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: catspaw49 Date: 26 Jan 10 - 05:17 PM --Your "poetry" sucks. --It has been posted repeatedly before. --It is full of bigoted and racist statements. --That which isn't racist is often incredibly juvenile. --It is obvious to most that you have limited knowledge of the world, especially considering your supposed travels. Spaw |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 26 Jan 10 - 04:59 PM Suggesting racism and bigotry after a poem about "Land Rights", and wondering why it was posted, are examples of ignorance, you two. |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: catspaw49 Date: 26 Jan 10 - 12:01 PM --Your "poetry" sucks. --It has been posted repeatedly before. --It is full of bigoted and racist statements. --That which isn't racist is often incredibly juvenile. --It is obvious to most that you have limited knowledge of the world, especially considering your supposed travels. Spaw |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: mandotim Date: 26 Jan 10 - 10:36 AM Er, why should I keep your drivel in mind, WAV? Given that I don't give a stuff about Australia Day in the first place? What's the connection between pompous tripe about countries and indigenous people and a national holiday in Australia that seems to be just a good excuse for a booze up and a barbie? Please stop telling me what I should and shouldn't do. |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 26 Jan 10 - 09:40 AM Today being Australia Day, we should keep this in mind... Poem 76 of 230: LAND RIGHTS If there is a good thing, From the Second World War, It's that most peoples learnt To conquer lands no more. In Africa, Asia, And the Pacific, too: Post-war independence - Steps only bigots rue. But for some indigenes, Outnumbered much-too-much, It has all come too late For liberty, as such. So 'tis in Australia, And America's sites, Where the best now, I think, Is to respect land rights. From http://blogs.myspace.com/walkaboutsverse (e-book) Or http://walkaboutsverse.sitegoz.com (e-scroll) (C) David Franks 2003 |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: catspaw49 Date: 25 Jan 10 - 01:35 PM No,no....You go to your mirror and read the line until it sinks in. When you finally can see your own bigoted ways and how it comes through in your gawdawful, pathetic, juvenile, "poetry".....then I'll retire to my own digs but the ceaseless posting of the same crappyass and racist crud has got to go. You have a right to post your bigoted tripe but I too have a right to state my displeasure in terms that are easily understood. So WavyFWBR, let me restate: Your "poetry" sucks. It has been posted repeatedly before. It is full of bigoted and racist statements. That which isn't racist is often incredibly juvenile. It is obvious to most that you have limited knowledge of the world, especially considering your supposed travels. Spaw |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 25 Jan 10 - 12:33 PM Get back to your kitty litter for such deposits, Catspaw...and anyone else care to deposit, rather, a wee ditty for Burns Night?.. |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: catspaw49 Date: 25 Jan 10 - 10:09 AM Geeziz......Your poetry really does suck. And you think the friggin' world needs to hear the important messages you are sending? .........Okay, everybody who gives a flying fuck about your seeing a duckie and a horsie on your way to Glasgow, please raise your hands. No one? Fine.... WavyFWBR, you are a racist lil dude who can't write for shit......Now go to the mirror and repeat that to yourself and then run a copy of the above poem and use it to wipe your ass. Spaw |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 25 Jan 10 - 09:54 AM In Scotland tonight, they celebrate Burns Night... Poem 66 of 230: TO SCOTLAND, AGAIN By coach from central Manchester - In-between stops at Bolton, Carlisle and Hamilton - To Glasgow, these are sights I saw... Some sheep, blotched vividly with blue, Filing down a well-worn path, Did form a long woolly lath, Aimed at a lusher greener hue. A farmer on a four-wheeler: His canine friend close beside. A horse not on call to ride: On leave - a no-shoe non-heeler! Convex pastures with heath-moorland; And flatter grain-planes below: Cropped, awaiting till-and-sow - Perhaps with grazing beforehand. Passed Edwin Waugh territory, Cumbria's sharp forms and tones Compelled sense off seat-cramped bones To their well-honed long-read story. Further north, farms of slighter falls: One a black-sheep specialist, With some Friesians on the list - All held between old dry-stone-walls. The Lakes behind, a strong Scotch mist Changed the sun to a full-moon And hid scenery, till soon - Light, and the wide scenes on Burns' list. New farms harnessing the wind's blow, Old white-and-grey-cottage views; Plus pines, espousing the hues - In distinct leaf-tones - of Glasgow. From http://blogs.myspace.com/walkaboutsverse (e-book) Or http://walkaboutsverse.sitegoz.com (e-scroll) (C) David Franks 2003 |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 24 Jan 10 - 05:04 PM Wouldn't want to challenge Cole! |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: Smedley Date: 24 Jan 10 - 05:36 AM I think Cole Porter's reputation remains unchallenged. |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 24 Jan 10 - 05:25 AM In my case, these days, vegan "cheese"... Poem 109 of 230: WE GO TOGETHER (TUNE: C E G E C E G E E G E E E C E G E C E G E E G E E E C E G E C E G E E G E E E G A B B A G A G B A G A G C A B B C A B B C A B B C A B B B A G A G B B A G A G) Does a mortar need a pestle? A curry a grind? Does a monsieur need a madame? An ooh need two la's? Does a work-bee need some pollen? And flowers a bee? Yes, Honey, we go together. We go together... Like scones and tea just after three, Or cheese and wine at dinnertime, We go together. Yeah, we go together. Does a mortise need a tenon? A cue need a glaze? Does an hombre need a muher? A tango take two? Does a taproot need some wet earth? And flowers a buzz? Yes, Honey, we go together. We go together... Like... Does a fortune mean a soul-mate? And love extreme care? Does a body need a shelter? A finger a ring? Does a sloth-bear need a hide-out? And bees a beehive? Yes, Honey, we go together. We go together... Like... From http://blogs.myspace.com/walkaboutsverse (e-book) Or http://walkaboutsverse.sitegoz.com (e-scroll) (C) David Franks 2003 |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 23 Jan 10 - 06:40 AM Speaking of testing, Stu, here's a gobbledygook-ish poem... Poem 106 of 230: TESTING 4,3,2,1 I've tried to learn to sing a song Well enough to let a singer Know the way I found to sing My lyric-only songs. That is, just in case a singer Was in want of a way to sing These lyric-only songs. But I'm sorry there's no notes with the songs, And hope they're okay said, if not sung - As love songs. (P.S: writing, via mimicking, my tunes came late, But they were all in shorthand by 2008.) From http://blogs.myspace.com/walkaboutsverse (e-book) Or http://walkaboutsverse.sitegoz.com (e-scroll) (C) David Franks 2003. |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: s&r Date: 23 Jan 10 - 06:14 AM Interesting Stu (or Apple Mac?) |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: mousethief Date: 22 Jan 10 - 06:57 PM Could you not have found a synonym from our own good English instead of repeating such an Americanism? Hey. O..O =o= |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: s&r Date: 22 Jan 10 - 06:43 PM WAV you are a computer program, aren't you. I've read the story somewhere - you are programmed to respon in a way that is supposedly a human response, and we have to spot it Stu |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 22 Jan 10 - 06:03 PM I never said that that industrial arts (woodwork, metalwork and technical drawing, Tim) teacher's question was directed at me, Stu - who seems to fancy "chook" as much as I "gobbledygook". |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: mandotim Date: 22 Jan 10 - 05:55 PM Industrial Arts???? |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: s&r Date: 22 Jan 10 - 05:45 PM "my industrial arts teacher used to say - "Are you with us!?"" Was this then a regular question WAV? Did you ever realise that it was not rhetorical, but a baffled bewilderment at your unawareness of the world, subject , classroom, classmates etc? As to your professed predilection for gobbledegook I think we'd spotted that. Could you not have found a synonym from our own good English instead of repeating such an Americanism? Almost as non-English as the Australian Chook. Stu |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 22 Jan 10 - 12:36 PM Donuel: I've only studied very basic law ("Manufacturing and the Law", as part of a technical certificate), but, I must confess, I quite like a bit of gobbledygook. Stu and Spaw: as (in even older days) my industrial arts teacher used to say - "Are you with us!?" |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: Donuel Date: 22 Jan 10 - 11:54 AM One man's gibberish is another man's gobbledeegook. To be honest, you are not important enough for it to be about you. Not that it is not about you because you don't matter, but rather its not about you because you are not important enough for it to be about you. Now if you were a corporation you could make sure of who you don't want it to be about. But as it stands, you don't matter, because to be important you must wield huge capital, not law or constitutions. Since you don't have meaningful capital that could enrich or diminish other super capitalists, its not about you. For people who it is about, they look upon you and know that they can buy or sell your life and family for less than lunch money. That is a feeling of pride and levity for those whom it is about. They may feel and know that you don't matter, yet you still matter in the sense that it is not about you. Thank you thank you very much...not you. |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: s&r Date: 22 Jan 10 - 11:34 AM WAV to Dutch Followed by Dutch to WAV. There seems to be no Babelfish for Strine (WAV's home tongue) At visiting loose Angeles, I thought I' D the traction of the pace rodeo. I' D concerned a couple up-market shops when aforesaid hombre, " Take one please." ' Information of Twas. for exploitation, which I that night in my space read. It mentioned of the dishonest gap - Slavenhok-lonen to profits. I left him to visit john, which hold all in marble stone were. Then I ran beyond more fortuintoga' s to lunch: four sulk - market profits. Stu |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: catspaw49 Date: 22 Jan 10 - 11:19 AM Gee, that's so responsive.......also complete gibberish......... Spaw |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 22 Jan 10 - 06:08 AM Poem 220 of 230: AMERICANS Before becoming a guest-lecturer, "Ethnic Americans," said a leader From an equally-ethnic U.S. kind - Sparking Amerindian chant to mind... From http://blogs.myspace.com/walkaboutsverse (e-book) Or http://walkaboutsverse.sitegoz.com (e-scroll) (C) David Franks 2003 |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: catspaw49 Date: 21 Jan 10 - 07:44 PM WavyFWBR - I thought we'd made it clear we disagree with you re: your despicable beliefs. Spaw |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 21 Jan 10 - 05:11 PM Siubhne - I thought I'd made it clear I disagree with you re. the use of such, above, terms. |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: Donuel Date: 21 Jan 10 - 07:11 AM We as Americans grind our hero's' bones for tea. We drink it down and say "it's such a pity". We lighten up in mysterious ways. We embrace our heroes and turn them into strays. Oh sure we love our athletes. We love our amorous heroes. We love our wealthy streets. We love more reducing heroes to sacrificial zeros. When we are bored by excellence When we tire of our benevolence We cut the exalted down to size We even tingle with enjoyment if our victim cries. Ohhh it feels so good you can't imagine. From rags to riches to rage is our fashion. For example today's newspaper page shows Tiger Woods in a hood sporting a beard with the grimace of a cynic. He is roaming the grounds, of a sexual addiction clinic. sip GULP mmmm AAhh what could be better than Tiger Woods tea. You see... Now we can gloat, vicariously We Are Now Better Than He. Tiger Woods Tea – a little dark a little light with a dash of exotic spice It packs a punch as strong as Ale Such a pity, how soon it grows stale See, now it's not fit for men or mice. |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: catspaw49 Date: 21 Jan 10 - 07:11 AM Say what WavyFWBR? Are you reading for comprehension or speed? Exactly what do you think Sublime was saying? I read that S-O has a fine insight into the way things are. Great stuff from one who is experienced and in touch. What did you read? Spaw |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: Jack Blandiver Date: 21 Jan 10 - 05:21 AM Not as much as your own silence on such matters, WAV. |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 21 Jan 10 - 04:57 AM Stu and Spaw - your silence re. what Suibhne just posted speaks volumes. Poem 37 of 230: RODEO DRIVE On visiting Los Angeles, I thought I'd walk Rodeo Drive. I'd passed a few up-market shops When an hombre said, "Take one please." 'Twas info. on exploitation, Which I read that night in my room. It mentioned of the unfair gap - Sweatshop-wages to profit-on. I left him to visit the john, Which was all clad in marble stone. Then I walked past more fortune gowns To lunch: four bucks - fair profit-on. From http://blogs.myspace.com/walkaboutsverse (e-book) Or http://walkaboutsverse.sitegoz.com (e-scroll) (C) David Franks 2003 |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: catspaw49 Date: 20 Jan 10 - 08:45 PM What a shame that WavyFWBR doesn't live here in the States..........He'd be so at home with the Klan. With any luck he might even get to be an Exalted Cyclops..........gawd knows he spends a lot of time showing his "one-eye" around here. WavyFWBR.....can you truly not see just how bigoted, racist, and chauvinistic, your words and thoughts are? Quick Answer from WavyFWBR will be "No." Spaw |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: s&r Date: 20 Jan 10 - 07:06 PM WAV doth protest too much methinks... Stu |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: Jack Blandiver Date: 20 Jan 10 - 03:04 PM Perfect example of ENGRISH which works on every level imaginable - it's funny, surreal & quite impossibly beautiful into the bargain. It is, in fact, unwitting poetry of the highest inspirational & natural order. And it is not racist. |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: Jack Blandiver Date: 20 Jan 10 - 11:11 AM I've had Hindu friends who make jokes about Moslems, and Moslem friends who made jokes about Hindus - very often to each other's faces. Both made jokes about whites - very often to my face. I have been the butt of racist jokes for being both Jewish and Irish. So, a lot of awkward on-going history there, WAV, born of a political & human reality the nature of which you're neither experienced enough nor yet qualified to understand or yet pass comment on. This is English culture I'm on about - complex, interwoven, a little tense at times (thanks to the myth-making of idiots like you who continue to publish your racist lies) but hardly ripe for the interracial civil-war you seem to be anticipating. But better this reality than the ethnically cleansed whiter-than white folky fascist Christian hell that you would have us living under. Otherwise - and once again - it was saintly Don Firth who coined the non-racist term Engrish Frute to celebrate the total absurdity of you calling your mass-produced black plastic Made in Japan cheapo recorder an English Flute. Engrish is a genuinely fascinating cultural & linguistic phenomenon with many books & websites devoted to it, such as THIS ONE. Racism is publishing inflammatory lies like English culture is taking a hammering and, when people lose their own culture, society suffers. |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 20 Jan 10 - 05:53 AM No - if you go through all my posts, you'll only find that I've questioned the act of immigration itself, without ever knocking any particular race/ethnicity; and you'll soon find that, unlike many males, I really do have no problem with a female being a president or an archbishop. The attitude that "women can do ANYTHING" is very new - not that long ago, females could not compete in a marathon, e.g. If, however, you go through the posts of one of my accusers here, Sean, you'll find language such as "Engrish frute" for a recorder made in Japan, or "I have friends at the pub who make racist jokes". |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: Jack Blandiver Date: 20 Jan 10 - 05:02 AM accept is that, if living in England about 50 years ago, I would have been far less radical I think the word you're looking for here is reactionary, WAV - and in the England of 1960, who can say? I wasn't born until 1961, and my England was a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic working-class truly radical paradise in which your philosophy would have been derided for the misanthropic, racist, sexist, & fascistic bullshit it most surely is. |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: mandotim Date: 20 Jan 10 - 04:48 AM How dare you tell me 'what I am really saying'! I have said nothing of the kind, this is another case of your fevered brain assuming that everyone else is saying the same things as you. You are (judged by your own ceaseless blathering) a nasty, controlling,racist and sexist bigot, with no understanding of either your own culture or that of anywhere else. (I can show evidence of all of those terms from your actual posts, WAV, so don't bother denying them). Why would I want to agree with someone like that? If you aren't doing it already, WAV, get some therapy. You are seriously disconnected and alienated from the real world around you. Get some friends. Get a job. Learn a musical instrument properly. Get some singing lessons. Read some proper history. Fall in love with someone other than yourself. Get a life. |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 20 Jan 10 - 04:33 AM Apparently, folks, the Enigma code was cracked 70 years ago today!...what you are really saying is that I'm heavily against the status quo; but what you should, at least, accept is that, if living in England about 50 years ago, I would have been far less radical: some attitudes and values definitely have changed for the worse, in my opinion. During a university break in Australia... Poem 6 of 230: THE PICKER While picking onions at Echuca, Betimes I came across a Man who was, he said, by trade a picker. A compact and stocky physique had he; Kind he was to first-time me - Advising, "You should pick 'em on your knee." Then he told me of his long-kept plan Of travel, by caravan, To pick seasoned crops, over a wide span. But workers' rates, I knew, were non too fair - Twenty dollars a tonne, there, Was all the onion-crop owner could spare. Though (with tally taken by some louse, And told to see owner or spouse), Believe me, they lived in some kind of house. From http://blogs.myspace.com/walkaboutsverse (e-book) Or http://walkaboutsverse.sitegoz.com (e-scroll) (C) David Franks 2003 |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: mandotim Date: 20 Jan 10 - 04:07 AM Succinct as ever, Spaw. :) |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: catspaw49 Date: 19 Jan 10 - 11:40 PM A dick by any other name is still a dick. Dick, thy name is WavyFWBR......... I am more than willing to let a dumbfuck be a dumbfuck but once again we are plagued with the same gawdawful "poetry" and the completely inane and non-responsive illogical arguments that have been hashed over 4 or 5 times before along with the reposting of each tripe ridden piece of shit this clown has written. Spaw |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: mandotim Date: 19 Jan 10 - 07:28 PM Gather from where? I asked you to substantiate these rather weird notions. What exactly is your evidence for your assertion? |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: s&r Date: 19 Jan 10 - 06:19 PM Your vision of the world is so bizarre WAV as to make it worthy of medical/psychological study. You patronize and insult so many people (without perhaps ever realising it) individually and in groups, races and nations. Your lack of understanding in so many areas of human life beggars belief. But Sean says you're a nice guy. Strange.... The other possibility is that you're one of the cleverest wind-up merchants ever, and don't really believe any of the tosh about which you pontificate. I wish I knew In bafflement Stu |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: s&r Date: 19 Jan 10 - 06:08 PM 800 |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 19 Jan 10 - 01:07 PM Yes, Tim, but more in women's tennis, I gather. |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: mandotim Date: 19 Jan 10 - 11:02 AM Can you actually read, WAV? I didn't ask what your medical qualifications were. I asked if you were aware of any stress injuries in men's tennis. Answer the question please, and then kindly address my other questions. |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 19 Jan 10 - 10:29 AM I'm afraid my medical qualifications are limited to basic first aid, Tim, so can only add examples, such as Sharapova recently being out of the game with a shoulder injury for several months. Thanks for those pics, Sean: seems you've been to quite a few of the places in my Walkabouts (especially in Lancs and NE)...good for me, as I had "my pen" but not a camera! |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: mandotim Date: 19 Jan 10 - 07:39 AM And Sue Barker's medical qualifications are? I asked you for evidence WAV, not gossip. I would have thought that someone with your array of qualifications would know the difference. Are you aware of any stress injuries in men's tennis? |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: Jack Blandiver Date: 19 Jan 10 - 07:04 AM BLACKBURN CATHEDRAL An amazing place, not least as here resides some of Mr Eatough's misericord carvings originally done for Whalley Abbey, circa 1430 - the others now residing at Whalley Parish Church & Cliviger. My favourite of the Blackburn carvings is The Fall (and in Detail, wherein lurks the devil) - photos by me. |
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 19 Jan 10 - 05:01 AM According to WikeAnswers, Stu, it's 16 - 20kg, so, according to the above guidelines, some care and common sense would be needed. Tim - the sport I follow most closely is tennis and, thus, I'm aware of many stress injuries in women's tennis: e.g., Sue Barker said herself on the BBC that she played many matches with pain killers injected into her wrist. As I say, parents should encourage daughters into, rather, TABLE tennis, in my opinion. In Lancashire, England... Poem 125 of 230: BLACKBURN CATHEDRAL - AUTUMN 2000 Just out of the station, And past a new statue On human relation (Mum, kid, and teddy, too), Lies Blackburn Cathedral, Which, from my passage through, Seems very musical In its newly-formed view. From http://blogs.myspace.com/walkaboutsverse (e-book) Or http://walkaboutsverse.sitegoz.com (e-scroll) (C) David Franks 2003 |