BS: You can do it, Raptor!

Subject: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 03:11 PM

Here's the thing, man. You CAN write a post that contains 150 or more words. I know you can. I have faith in you. And DON'T tell me you don't have enough time for it. I happen to know that you spend time watching birds (cough, snort!, gasp!)...and that means you have time to burn, right?

Now, here's how it works. Go and study one of the political threads. Look at the posts by people like Teribus, Amos, Ron Davies, Arne what's-his-name, etc...miles and miles and miles of fervent prose. Those guys are heavy hitters, man.

Well, I think you have it in you to be a heavy hitter too. Just pick a subject that interests you so much that you can't shut up about it, pour yourself a stiff drink, and start friggin' TYPING...and DON'T let up until you have said every frikkin' LAST word on the subject that you have to SAY!

"Know'm sayin'??? Brinng! Know'm sayin'????"

Get to it. I believe in you, man. Go for 500 words at least.

Your pal,

Little Hawk

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 03:16 PM

Little Hawk is obviously not a Hemingway fan.

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 03:28 PM

Well, no. Not a big Hemingway fan. But he was a pretty good writer in his own way. I like the one about the "Snows of Kilimanjaro".   Weird psychology, though. A real "man's man" was Hemingway.

An amusing thought is this: Hemingway and D.H.Lawrence cast away on a tiny desert island and forced to put up with each other on a daily basis for a few years.

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Peace
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 03:31 PM

Whale fletching in Moby Dick.

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Amos
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 03:38 PM

It was a slow day.

On the Mudcat.

The posts were few.

The few posts were dull.

Then he showed up.

His post was long. Long and fervent. Impassioned. He kept on talking. He cared. He wrote on and on.

I closed the window.

It was a slow day.

On the Mudcat.



A

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 03:46 PM

LOL! Lovely Hemingway, Amos! Oh, my...

So where's Raptor?

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 04:19 PM

The nice thing about writing like Hemingway is, you can put a whole Herman Melville book in about 23 pages. Very economical.

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 04:20 PM

Speaking of Hemingway, has anyone else heard "A Visit From St. Nicholas" as written by Hemingway? (Parody by James Thurber in the New Yorker in 1927.)

Heard it on public radio earlier this month and just found it in print at the New Yorker's website.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: bobad
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 04:20 PM

Quantity does not the measure of discourse make. Sometimes more is said in fewer words.

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 04:30 PM

"Hey!"

(quoting Raptor...)

And they say that brevity is the soul of wit.

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: bobad
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 04:34 PM

Now you're talking.

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 06:43 PM

Come on, Raptor. I expect a lennnnnngthy response to this. An essay. A voluminous exposition of your most pithy thoughts and observations, couched in elegant language, and sparing no expansiveness of polemic and puissant grandeur.

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: GUEST,Kent Ovation
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 10:05 PM

He came home. To an empty house. The lights were on. That was a waste of power. But he didn't care. What did it matter anymore? Outside the power lines were buzzing. A train rumbled by. He eyed the clock on the wall. 3:45. He eyed the shotgun. A dull gleam on the cold steel. They found him the next day. A sardine can was wedged in his jaws. It was a Norwegian sardine can. Hell of a way to die on the last day of January 1945.

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Peace
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 10:26 PM

Yeah.

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Charmion
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 04:45 PM

Norwegian sardines in January 1945? Not Pygmalion likely!

The coastline was mined, and herring fishermen tend to be smart.

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 05:04 PM

Perhaps it was a rather old can of Norwegian sardines? Besides, does one stop sardining for a mere war? Never!

Hey, Raptor! Hey!

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Charmion
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 05:09 PM

Yes, one stopped sardining in Norway during the war if one did not wish to become bait oneself -- or arrested by the Gestapo, which could come down to the same thing.

Why couldn't the sardines in question have been good old Connors Bros from Halifax? Details, Little Hawk, details!

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 05:14 PM

Come on. You telling me the Germans didn't want sardines too? ;-) How about black market sardines?

I'm thinking we oughta start a thread with nothing but Hemingway parodies on it.

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Raptor
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 07:12 PM

I like Sardines!
Raptor

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Raptor
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 07:12 PM

Well?

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Raptor
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 07:13 PM

Hows That?
Raptor

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 07:14 PM

Get out. I wanted you to go on and on and on. At least 500 words.

Nice to see you here, though.

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Raptor
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 07:16 PM

O.K.

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Raptor
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 07:17 PM

Fine

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Raptor
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 07:17 PM

See ya!

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 07:26 PM

Typical.

Hemingway could've learned a lot from Raptor when it comes to brevity.

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Raptor
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 07:46 PM

The wise one does not say what he knows, the fool does not know what he says.
Turkish Wisdom

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Raptor
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 07:48 PM

Learn to know when to speak and when to remain quiet!

David Baird

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Raptor
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 07:50 PM

If you want to learn, first learn to keep quiet and observe!
Herve Desbois

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Raptor
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 07:53 PM

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Raptor
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 07:54 PM

It is a sad thing that nature speaks and that humankind does not listen.
Victor Hugo

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Raptor
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 07:55 PM

He who talks sows, he who listens harvests.
Persian Wisdom

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Raptor
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 07:58 PM

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise is in his heart.
Benjamin Franklin

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 07:59 PM

Put down the Hemingway and pick up Twain or Steinbeck. Then cut a vein. . .

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Raptor
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 08:01 PM

To allow yourself a few minutes of silence, with eyes closed, is sometimes enough to recharge your batteries.
French Wisdom

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Raptor
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 08:02 PM

Be quiet and listen to the silence.
Herve Desbois

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Raptor
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 08:03 PM

Learn to love silence>
David Baird

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Raptor
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 08:06 PM

Words must be weighed, not counted.
David Baird

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Raptor
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 08:08 PM

Learn to listen, otherwise your tonge will leave you deaf.
German Wisdom

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Raptor
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 08:09 PM

We reach wisdom by learning when to hold our tonges.
Chinese Proverb

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Raptor
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 08:11 PM

Think before speaking but do not speak all you are thinking.
Chinese Wisdom

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Raptor
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 08:13 PM

In the twilight, silence is still the best interpreter of souls.
P.Javor

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 08:13 PM

That is "flenze" not "fletch." Nasty business, flenzing whales.

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Raptor
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 08:15 PM

Silence allows finding one destiny.
Lao-Tzu

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Raptor
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 08:17 PM

Let us be silent - so we may hear the whisper of the gods.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Raptor
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 08:18 PM

The tree of silence bears the fruits of peace.
Arab Proverb

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Raptor
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 08:20 PM

Happiness ans peace are a matter of silence.
Jean-Louis Gagnon

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Raptor
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 08:22 PM

He who listens and remains quiet leaves the world in peace.
Monegasque Proverb

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Raptor
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 08:25 PM

Sometimes we have to be silent to be heard.
Stanislaw J.Lec

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Raptor
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 08:27 PM

Silence is the mother of truth.
Benjamin Disraeli

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Raptor
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 08:32 PM

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Elbert Hubbard

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Raptor
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 08:33 PM

Shut the fuck up.
Ricky From Trailor Park Boys

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 10:02 PM

Many words of wisdom. Thank you, Raptor.

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Amos
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 10:02 PM

Put a cork in it, laddy!

Tim from the Hull's Hellions

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 10:13 PM

Stifle! - Archie Bunker

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: bobad
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 10:34 PM

You asked for 500 words, now you're telling him to shut up, make up your mind, man.

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 10:38 PM

No, no, I'm not telling him to shut up...I'm just chiming in with the prevailing theme. It's a philosophical discussion now.

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: GUEST,Bobert Still in North Carolina
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 10:41 PM

Candy's dandy'
but liquir's quicker...

Subject: RE: BS: You can do it, Raptor!
From: bobad
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 10:44 PM

I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. But then some people are terrified to be seen carrying a modern screen magazine. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.

Bob Dylan