it's like a big party. Sometimes you want to have a quiet hide in a corner
(still using your eyes and ears probably) and sometimes you want to talk to
everyone at once in the centre of the room.
bw
SallyE

on 7/3/03 8:22 pm, hui dewar at [log in to unmask] wrote:

> Dear newcomer,
> 
> I agree. It's like surfing a tidal wave and you have to keep moving forward
> to make the most of it.
> 
> Just pick out the ones that are interesting to you and hit reply.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Colin
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Trish Harewood" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 8:16 PM
> Subject: Re: Collective nouns : A challenge!!
> 
> 
> I like the SOUNDof these phrases.
> I must say, this system is very strange for a newcomer, you feel like you're
> barging in to someone else's conversation, as if an e-mail has gone astray
> and landed in my in-tray! So many of them too!
> Mystified,
> Trish
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gary Blankenship" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 5:16 PM
> Subject: Re: Collective nouns : A challenge!!
> 
> 
> a march of doves
> 
> a button of hawks
> 
> a stain of poets
> 
> a screech of hard rock
> 
> a toupee of talking heads
> 
> a bouffant of weather girls
> 
> Thanks, Arthur for this.  I need a diary idea for the Port Townsend workshop
> and this might fit the bill.
> 
> Gary
> 
> 
> IF MY MAIL BOUNCES, MAIL [log in to unmask] AS AN ALTERNATIVE.....March
> Margaret Hodge and Gary poems for kids at:
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