BS: In every thread someone has to be last!

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: el ted
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 08:44 AM

1000

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 08:45 AM

BB, WELL! El ted does NOT share your sensibilities!!!

Man, I am so tempted here..but of course you're right.

Then again...

Sushi sounds so good to me right now...but...

Remember you've got an offer to trade smoked salmon for a roof in London...;-D

..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 08:48 AM

See? I was so busy writing, I missed the 100th post! Sounds like you guys both claimed it simultaneously.

My vote (once again) goes to BB for not just counting down the bloody posts! Shame shame el ted. Go back into your corner now.

..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: el ted
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 08:48 AM

Rats! I missed!

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 09:10 AM

Wesseldorf is just down the road from Unternauerstadt.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: ranger1
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 10:14 AM

What does that have to do with the price of sushi on the roof of a London flat?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 12:00 PM

I think if you've got to cheat to get something as unimportant as the 1000th post, then you must lead a very boring life. What's more by cheating like that you are automatically disqualified. God how juvenile, tut tut!!
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 03:45 PM

Just thought, if you subtract the 7 consecutive threads which artificially boosted the count, then mine is the real 1000th, but I don't care about things like that, so there!
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 03:53 PM

but then you would need to remove all the other "padding" entries, for previous significant numbers...

Anyway, now I can post more sonnets without being accused of padding... ( as I duck for cover)

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 04:07 PM

of course, in hexidecimal this post would be A...

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 04:42 PM

Yes, but who will be FIRST to be last? Or has that already happened? And who will be last to be first? If you split the difference, what do you get?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 04:45 PM

broken differences?

difference dust?

difference chips?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 05:12 PM

inference

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 05:15 PM

I'm so happy school's over!

now I can spend all day sending specious messages to the cat and hit every significant number.

I can rant about the miniscule details that irritate me without alienating many folks I have to see on a day to day basis.

I can gain wisdom and insight from poets and fools.

For what more could a human being long?
j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 05:18 PM

there is a difference between poets and fools?

8-{E

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 06:14 PM

now that we are over a kilo-post here, should we refer to this as "IETSHTBL"? or IETSH2BL?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 06:24 PM

j - an entire set of Bob Dylan bootlegged performance CD's, spiritual enlightenment, and a newly moulded 1/32nd scale Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien kit by Hasegawa! (it's an airplane)

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 25 Jun 04 - 08:01 AM

I KNOW it's an airplane!

What would I do with all this middle-aged angst if I ever captured spiritual enlightenment.

Don't tempt me with Dylan! I know where you live!

Fools wear pointy hats and bells on their ankles.

j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 25 Jun 04 - 12:30 PM

and poets? what do we wear?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Jun 04 - 02:51 PM

Read Gormenghast for the best description ever of a poet. I'll look it up if nobody else knows it.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Jun 04 - 02:54 PM

Found it!

"It was a long head.

"It was a wedge, a sliver, a grotesque slice in which it seemed the features had been forced to stake their claims, and it appeared that they had done so in a great hurry, and with no attempt to form any kind of symmetrical pattern for their mutual advantage.

"...the mouth opened and a voice as strange and deep as the echo of a lugubrious ocean stole out into the morning. Never was a face so belied by its voice."

Giok

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Jun 04 - 02:59 PM

j - Your middle-aged angst would vanish in a sea of love, and like that song of mine...you would see beauty wherever you chose to look. You would see the suffering and imperfection in the World too, but it is the beauty that would impress itself upon you regardless, because it is eternal. The other stuff passes away. Like waves on the restless sea, they pass away. Yet the ocean remains, tranquil in its depths.

If I get there, I'll let you know. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 25 Jun 04 - 04:19 PM

if you get there LH you won't have to tell anyone!

poets wear whatever suits their fancy.

speaking of which...I have six loads of laundry to fold.

later

j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 25 Jun 04 - 04:26 PM

ah, but my fancy does not say what would suit her...

8-{E

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Jun 04 - 08:08 PM

You have the weirdest emoticon I've seen yet, BB. How about shaving off the beard?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: JennyO
Date: 25 Jun 04 - 11:32 PM

Looking at his emoticon, I get the impression of fangs. Are you a vampire bb?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 26 Jun 04 - 08:27 PM

Little Hawk-

YOU might consider taking a knife to your secondary sexual charactoristics, but I would not.

JennyO:

Depends on the neck

8-{E

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 26 Jun 04 - 10:15 PM

I wonder if that's where the term "fancy man" originated?

the beard would have to be a tertiary sexual characteristic - right after a smile and before graceful hands.

j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 26 Jun 04 - 10:24 PM

warm hands...

8-{E

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 26 Jun 04 - 10:33 PM

another sonnet...

Sonnet   07/04/04                         CMIII

To know that muse will someday tell me all
That words might mean, and if they reach, to touch
Her soul: That is enough for me to fall
Into my dreams and all of passions clutch.
She gives me hope for future, and the chance
To find my dreams in life. I do not know
If ever my words on her lips might dance,
Or see in eyes any of passion's glow.
I dare not wake, from dream: Heart almost holds
Sweet muse, within. All that I want, to heal
Past sorrows, heart can see. What desire molds,
I find no flaw in: Yet, are desires real?
I cannot doubt my feelings, nor her smile:
She is the one that gives verse hope for style.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 28 Jun 04 - 03:57 AM

Thread slipped off the first page...and no way BB is going to be the last. Sorry honey!

..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 28 Jun 04 - 04:09 AM

no problem, Ellenpoly. But, as we were reminded, nice guys always finish last....

Hey, I was hoping to be able to post more sonnets!


Sonnet   09/04/04                      CMIV

What do I ask of muse, that I need fear
She would not send me smile? I am a fool
To think that dreams upset her: It is clear
She would not knowingly act to be cruel.
What do I want of muse, that I dreams hide
When they are honest image of concern?
Why do words hesitate to hopes confide,
When heart would more than just her sweet smile earn?
What do I seek of muse, that I am scared
To ask to hold her in my arms, and search
For all of heaven in her eyes? I've dared
Far more, for less: Would hopes my heart besmirch?
Yet, I cannot risk even hope of chance
That I might someday find stars in her glance.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: GUEST,Gillian Nerdsworth
Date: 28 Jun 04 - 04:25 AM

What do I ask of mudcat, that I need fear
It would not send me cheer? I am a charmer
To think that dreams upset it: It is clear
The Cat is eternal, I am but a llama.
What do I want of threads, when verses share
such rhyming convolutions I have told?
Why do words in patterns so compare,
When ego seeks through verse to then unfold?
Why do I seek the cat, am I but scared
I may not find in Penguin or in print, and search
For publication in its threads? I've dared
Far less, for more: continuous rhymes I share with threads that lurch
Yet, I keep on, and still stick out my neck
That I might some day find a publisher with a cheque.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 28 Jun 04 - 04:40 AM

needs a lot of work on scansion. And charmer/llama???????

Keep at it, though.


8-{E

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 28 Jun 04 - 04:51 AM

but this stanza is not bad.... needs some work on the third line...


"What do I want of threads, when verses share
such rhyming convolutions I have told?
Why do words in patterns so compare,
When ego seeks through verse to then unfold?"

How about "Why do words in such patterns so compare,"?


and the couplet would be better as

"Yet, I keep on, and still stick out my neck
That I might find publisher with a cheque. "


I am not sure there is anything in the first or third stanza to work with....

8-{E

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 28 Jun 04 - 04:56 AM

but as a reward, here is another sonnet...


Sonnet 13/04/04                         CMV

What can I tell muse that would show my mind
And longing for the dreams she offers heart?
How can I with fears of upsetting part,
And hopes for smile within heart and soul bind?
Is there a path to my desires, to find
All I might want to be within my reach?
Can I find words to say, to feelings teach,
Or visions of her light, when soul is blind?
Yet, I find just the thought of her is source
For hope, and dreams, and vision: Might I send
A tithe of my emotions? Dare I give
An echo of the song dreams of smile lend?
I cannot help but hope that hopes might live,
And I might forget all of past remorse.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Jun 04 - 04:57 AM

pray look beyond the structure to the thought
or else all words are shells that come to nought..

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 28 Jun 04 - 05:05 AM

If you had successfully formed the structure, I might have been more likely to consider the content...


8-{E

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 28 Jun 04 - 05:19 AM

Pray, think again, and try to find the wit
To satorize, and not just type out sh__.

8_{E

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Jun 04 - 11:29 AM

Concupiciousness!

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 28 Jun 04 - 11:34 AM

Good word to begin a sonnet, LH

..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 29 Jun 04 - 06:57 AM

LH,

True, but misspelled...

8-{E



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Main Entry: con·cu·pis·cence
Pronunciation: kän-'kyü-p&-s&n(t)s, k&n-
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Late Latin concupiscentia, from Latin concupiscent-, concupiscens, present participle of concupiscere to desire ardently, from com- + cupere to desire
: strong desire; especially : sexual desire
- con·cu·pis·cent /-s&nt/ adjective

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 29 Jun 04 - 09:24 AM

oh goody.
grammar wars.
satirize?
sonnet structure?

Yet,in the warped weft we weave, no design deigns to deceive
but follow threads'delightful path;grasp cat's last languishing laugh.

(this is harder than it looks)
(warped as a two syllable word)
j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 29 Jun 04 - 09:33 AM

Yet,in the warped weft we weave,
no design deigns to wit deceive
but follow threads'delightful path;
grasp cat's last languishing long laugh.



works better- tetrameter couplets..

8-{E

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 29 Jun 04 - 11:40 AM

we can but attempt. I think sonnets need to be spoken to realize their full impact...preferably on a riverbank with a bottle of wine.

but it's raining here.

Thanks for the tips.
j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Jun 04 - 12:23 PM

"Cease this needless clamour, you concupiscient little animal!"

That's what I yell at Rennie, the miniature dachshund when he starts raving away about something. It has no useful effect, since he responds by raving back at me, but I still enjoy saying it. It bugs the little monster. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 29 Jun 04 - 01:10 PM

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou...

I have the wine, but can't drink it... What river do you want to be by?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: freda underhill
Date: 29 Jun 04 - 09:28 PM

the Styx.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 30 Jun 04 - 04:36 AM

I see someone has resurrected the MBPC thread. I wonder if they might appreciate sonnets over there?
Giok....Living near Hope

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 30 Jun 04 - 07:42 AM

you're just hoping we'll all give up so you can be last.

How about the river of Babylon?

j