Better watch it, Dr. H. Quadruple Agent Prince's packin' a stun gun.
Seriously, Robbie Rob, I realized the instant I'd clicked "Send" that this
message mite be interp-ed as negative towardS your byooootiful pome. So
lemme now set the record straight: oh dear, maybe I'd better go backchannel
with all these compliments-to-the-poet-for-his-manifold-manifest-gifts.
Rescue me, Patrick! Where's patchwork Vileboris Catflap Of The Plastic
Collar when you need him?! Oh woe is moi.
THIS IS A SENSUAL POEM, ROBBIE ROB, DAMN IT! (And quit tryna change my
inverted commas which you don't even know the right name to call 'em, damn
it!)
An Antique Greek Sweet Haggis AKA Da Judy
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Subject: Re: Antique Greek Snap
> Judy said
>
>> You've launched a new pome category, bless you: "A Sensualist Tells of
> His
>> Crisis---But We Ain't Buying It, No Way."
>
> Sure you have the inverted commas in the right place? Shouldn't it be: "A
> Sensualist Tells of His Crisis"---But We Ain't Buying It, No Way.
>
>> (which page of the phonebook did you take this pome from, RR?)
>
> Page 279.
>
> Look, if you think this is boring, you should take a look at the Greek
> original. I actually *improved* it. One of the reasons [there were
> others]
> I picked a minor 3rdC AD Byzantine civil servant to translate, see if it
> were possible to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
>
> Mibee so, mibee not.
>
> <g>
>
> Jury's out till No 38.
>
>> Paula Loudlier than her coz Paulus Silentarius
>
> Sheath your claws, woman, or you'll scratch the grandpups.
>
> A Mortified Thing
>
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