BS: In every thread someone has to be last!

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 19 May 04 - 11:32 AM

re Rapaire's commentin MOAB:
"And besides, who cares? I mean, there are perhaps six people in the whole damned country who know the difference between iambic pentameter and trochaic heptameter, and even fewer who care, and should you take the weeks necessary to write an Alexandrine, say,
the person who you were writing it to in hopes of seducing will
have gone off with someone else because the age is simply not into
seduction and while the human race has never had "world enough and time"this present era of "carpe diem" and instant gratification has taken all the fun out of things like seduction and flirtation and hell you can't even tell someone they look good these days without a sexual harrassment complaint "


funny you should mention Alexandrines..... ( waiting for pleas to stop before I post)

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Blackcatter
Date: 19 May 04 - 11:54 AM

never will get any from me beardedbruce. I'm no good at writing poetry, so clearly I have no taste as to what is good. Besides, you're making Ellen happy.


Ellen - I didn't tell you all that to impress you - just to let you know why it's easy for me to do that stuff. It's just work and hobbies.

Besides, someone has to be an historian in the land of Mickey. It's not easy talking history in a town that most people thoink sprung from the thigh of Walt in the 1970s.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 19 May 04 - 12:23 PM

Well I guess I did ask for it, beardedbruce!

I admire anyone who is willing to share what they know or create, Blackcatter, so whether you meant it to impress or not, it did.

..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 19 May 04 - 12:39 PM

Gee, Ellenpoly, do I make you happy?


Well, no one stopped me, so ...

Sonnet 01/11/02       Alexandrines to My Dryad             DCCLXII

How shall I tell you of the power that smile shows?
I would take all the colors from the stars, and leaves,
And seal them in my verse, to give you when it snows,
And still not have palette to paint what heart receives.
Should you now dance with moon shadows, what would you find?
What would you see, within the mirror of your thought,
That I might hope to have heart understand your mind?
How will I know if I offer what you have sought?
Kisses are petals from rose, soft, fleeting and sweet,
But more than brush of lips. I dream that I might reach
To soul, and find a heart that makes my own complete:
How shall I my own soul of forest muse beseech?
Should I ask if you might my soul to heart embrace?
Will you be more than muse, to more than my dreams grace?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Blackcatter
Date: 19 May 04 - 12:43 PM

vey nice.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 19 May 04 - 12:48 PM

Thank you.

I hope Ellenpoly likes it....

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 19 May 04 - 01:01 PM

btw, sonnet 30 of 163 to present muse....


freda:

I am suspicious of love poems that do not have I in them... I have always thought that 1st person was the proper form. I've written in the third person, though: would that be better?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 19 May 04 - 02:34 PM

freda:

ok, here is one without I- still first person, though.

onnet 05/11/03                         DCCCLVIII

Good night, sweet muse. May you dream of the dawn
When love and light and laughter greet your smile.
May stars gather above, as heart is drawn
To seek for love, and of these dreams make trial.
Rest well, and long: Awake to a new day
Where all is as should be, and you enjoy
The love that you deserve. Heart shows the way
To bright tomorrow: Let sleep fears destroy.
May the Lord bless and keep you; May He make
His countenance to shine on you, and be
Gracious unto you; And may the Lord give
Heart peace: If not for love, then for the sake
Of one that for your happiness gives plea.
You are the light that lets my passions live.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Blackcatter
Date: 19 May 04 - 10:24 PM

I'm not going to let poetry kill this thread.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Blackcatter
Date: 19 May 04 - 10:32 PM

ORLANDO HISTORY BIT: The Big Freezes

   Christmas Days are often beautiful in Central Florida. Warm and sunny, they are many times a respite from the cold weather. Christmas Day of 1894 was one such day. It is reported that the temperature reached into the eighties. The day held no warning of the devastation that would arrive three days later. On Sunday afternoon a storm front arrived in Central Florida that was the leading edge of a terrible cold snap. By the next morning the temperatures had settled to 24 degrees. Water pipes froze and began to burst and just about any green that was not "cold hardy" turned black and died. The freeze lasted 36 hours – a duration that is remarkable even today in an era where Central Florida can expect a moderate freeze or two each winter. The citrus crop was ruined. The oranges froze solid on the branch and subsequently dropped off and rotted on the ground.

   The Big Freeze of '94 was devastating to many smaller growers, especially those who were on the margins of profitability. Some of the families who were hit hard moved back up to the North to survive while the large growers began to look towards next year to have a successful crop. That hope changed to despair a little over a month later. As bad as the Big Freeze of '94 was, the Big Freeze of '95 was unbelievably worse. The month of January had been mild and the citrus trees had begun their spring growth, their trunks filling with sap. On February 7, a terrible freeze hit all of Florida. In Central Florida the cold snap killed many of the trees that were still recovering. The sap in some of the trees expanded and burst their trunks. Most other trees were killed down to the bud union or all the way to the roots. To this day, it is the worst disaster in modern Central Florida history.

   Seven of eight banks in Central Florida subsequently closed. Many growers left the area. The young city of Orlando decreased in population for the only time in its history. Eve Bacon in her book Orlando A Centennial History writes that Orlando's population in 1890 before the Big Freezes was 2,856. In 1900, Bacon reports that the population was 2,481. After the Big Freezes, Central Florida began to diversify agriculturally. While citrus was making a slow comeback, vegetables took up part of the slack. Of course, cattle continued to be a major source of income and small dairies were started to provide Central Floridians with their first commercially produced fresh milk. Tourism was also growing. Orlando became a quiet vacation destination and to some extent reaped the benefits of the promotions of east coast developer Henry Flagler and west coast developer Henry Plant.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Blackcatter
Date: 20 May 04 - 12:37 AM

HELP! International TV Theme Song Lyrics Needed

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 20 May 04 - 05:33 AM

I do like your poems, beardedbruce, but I've just lost the use of my laptop, so won't have the time to read or send much of anything, being now limited to an hour a day at my local library!

I'm pretty sure Mudcat will go on just as well without me.

Have fun, guys. I'll catch up some day..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 20 May 04 - 07:07 AM

your loss will kill the thread for sure E! and I thought it would be the sonnets.

everybody take a deep breath...

j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 20 May 04 - 08:33 AM

Ellenpoly:

Sorry about the laptop- what is the problem? Maybe I have spare parts.


Blackcatter:

Show me a single thread where the last post was a poem.


42:

(inhale)





(exhale)
Nope, the sonnets did not work... I guess I need to start on my ballads.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 20 May 04 - 09:34 AM

when you care enough....

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 20 May 04 - 09:35 AM

to send the hairy beast.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: s6k
Date: 20 May 04 - 10:12 AM

your post bruce was 666 !!! the number of the beast!

this post, is 667 - the neighbour of the beast!

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 20 May 04 - 10:29 AM

as I had planned.... I hope this makes CarolC happy. All I want to do is make people happy.....

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 20 May 04 - 11:42 AM

Beardedbruce, thanks for the kind offer of help, but it's a borrowed laptop from a company I do volunteer work with, and I'm hoping there will be another one available for me to use. I'll know more tomorrow when I haul this one down into London to drop it off.

I'm on my old "antique", which was given to me by a friend who knew I was too poor to buy my own, and it seems to be still chugging along. Of course the mouse has seen better days, so until I can afford to buy another one, or get some more "loaners" I'll be only an infrequent visitor.

Just enough to keep this thread going!!!!!!!!!..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 20 May 04 - 11:55 AM

9 pin mouse? - send a mailing address....

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Blackcatter
Date: 20 May 04 - 12:07 PM

Yeah Ellen - let us know if we can help! We(I) don't want to loose you.


Bruce - I'm here to make sure poetry doesn't end a thread.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 20 May 04 - 12:23 PM

Blackcatter:

No problem. I try to refrain from spilling my verse on most threads, but this one calls out to me....

Ellenpoly:

Yes, let us know. Can't get you a new machine, but I have LOTS of parts I will give to a good cause...

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 20 May 04 - 12:33 PM

Hey thanks guys! I let you know what happens on the morrow. It would be hard to give up my Mudcat Jones!

Seriously, this is the first and probably only time I have involved myself with unknown people via the internet, and I'm convinced it wouldn't have happened if Deckman (Bob Nelson) hadn't brought me here to read about a mutual friend.

Little did I know what I'd find here! People as strange as myself!! And I mean that in the best of ways, as you no doubt understand.

..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 20 May 04 - 04:13 PM

good night, Ellenpoly.


May you dream of heart's desires, and wake to a bright dawn.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: GUEST,Blackcatter at work (shhhhh.)
Date: 20 May 04 - 04:17 PM

I once dated Dawn - she wasn't all that bright.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 20 May 04 - 04:23 PM

i once saw dawn. it was pretty bright.
j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 20 May 04 - 04:33 PM

well, being certifiably insane, by Dr.Stlly's diagnosis, I would not have a good grasp on reality.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 20 May 04 - 05:02 PM

reality is something I like to keep at arms' length.
j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 20 May 04 - 05:03 PM

way too close...

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 20 May 04 - 05:09 PM

you haven't seen my arms!

j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 20 May 04 - 05:22 PM

true   ...

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 20 May 04 - 05:40 PM

but that could change
j
can you believe I actually sent that. must be desperate to be last

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 20 May 04 - 06:08 PM

why? are you going to the fsgw getaway?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Blackcatter
Date: 20 May 04 - 10:07 PM

STOP THAT!

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 May 04 - 10:16 PM

The only thing you'll ever be last at is truly quitting smoking once and for all!

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 20 May 04 - 11:02 PM

don't nag LH. it just makes me more recalcitrant.

j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: GUEST
Date: 21 May 04 - 06:39 AM

So here I am down at the London Senior Centre (Better known as Age Concern) waiting to see if my boss can rustle up another laptop.

Just thought I'd check in (I'm SO

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: GUEST,Ellenpoly
Date: 21 May 04 - 06:44 AM

Whoops! That was me, hitting the wrong button on this state-of-the-art computer, which has a screen bigger than my TV! Maybe I'll just move in here...

Anyway, fingers (and eyes and toes) still crossed about getting another laptop...think good thoughts, all...

And LH, don't rag on 42 about quitting smoking. Let ME do it! Nah, I don't know you, 42, but if there are any little 43s or 44s running around, they're your best reason to quit now.

Nuff said, I don't do ragging well....

Beardedbruce, an ODE TO A LAPTOP???..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 21 May 04 - 07:18 AM

now the thread will never die.
j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 21 May 04 - 11:02 AM

You're right, 42!!! I'm baaaack with my fixed-up laptop. Turned out it just needed a new battery.

Now....












Where were we?


..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Blackcatter
Date: 21 May 04 - 11:59 AM

Thank goodness Ellen.

I don't know if I could go on without you.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 21 May 04 - 12:13 PM

Just answer me this, Blackcatter, are you naked at this moment? (Only mentioning it because of reading the Pagan/Wiccan thread).

Nice to be missed!..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 21 May 04 - 02:07 PM

Beardedbruce, there are a few things you must do in order to become an Elder at Mudcat Cafe...

1. Become very well-informed on William Shatner. Check out his website for more info.

2. Post incessantly! (you seem to have that well in hand)

3. Give up having a life outside of this forum.

4. Fight with other people over the Middle East, Israel, Palestinians, etc...(It doesn't really matter which side you're on, just give 'em hell! Be intemperate while you're at it.)

5. Post incessantly.

That about sums it up. Best of luck.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 21 May 04 - 04:35 PM

I guess that list lets me out LH.
j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: jimmyt
Date: 21 May 04 - 04:42 PM

yes, it is true

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Blackcatter
Date: 21 May 04 - 04:56 PM

1. Become very well-informed on William Shatner.

Isn't there options of other persons to be obsessed with? Neil Young, perhaps?

2. Post incessantly! (you seem to have that well in hand)

Well, that's obvious.

3. Give up having a life outside of this forum.

Wait a minute - many of us have lives outside Mudcat - usually it revolves around drinking, performing, belonging to a cult, writing poetry, etc, but they are all no less obsessive than Mudcat. And good addictive personalities can have (nay, SHOULD have) more than one thing to jones for.

4. Fight with other people over the Middle East, Israel, Palestinians, etc...(It doesn't really matter which side you're on, just give 'em hell! Be intemperate while you're at it.)

No arguement there (or should that be plenty of arguement?)/

5. Post incessantly.

Well, duh.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Blackcatter
Date: 21 May 04 - 05:00 PM

Why yes Ellen - I'm nekkid right now. The temperature outside is nearly 90 deg. (F) I live in a 1950's vintage house without A/C, but with wonderful cross breezes and ceiling fans, etc. But it's a lot nicer without clothing.

Now if that doesn't kill this thread, it will never die.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: GUEST,William Shatner
Date: 21 May 04 - 05:01 PM

Neil Young? Well, no...look, I'll admit I have a soft spot for old Neil. Who doesn't? But he no longer rates as an indispensible icon on Mudcat Cafe.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Blackcatter
Date: 21 May 04 - 05:10 PM

Ok - but are there others?

This is not to say that I'm not a big fan of yours Bill. You are pre-eminant to me, so much that Years ago, during the run of T.J. Hooker, not only was your birthday celebrated by my friends and me, but so was Adrian Zmed's (merely for the close association woth you).

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: GUEST,William Shatner
Date: 21 May 04 - 05:13 PM

I understand perfectly. By the way, this is the 700th post. Cheers!