Who mentioned eagles, Patrick?!
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Joodles
2008/7/14 Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>:
> Confused here what have eagles got to do with it? -I suppose they lay eggs
> P
> Ps I always agree with the moderator or co-moderator or commode on a list
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Joseph Duemer
> Sent: 14 July 2008 16:10
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Five fior our friends ...
>
> I find this discussion, however light-hearted, runs counter to the
> egalitarian spirit of the list.
>
> Joseph Duemer
> Co-Moderator
>
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Judy Prince <[log in to unmask]
> >
> wrote:
>
> > We must be V E R Y careful around these Eggheads, sweet McManus
> > (obviously).
> > They have delicate sensibilities, if not quite as much sense as us Bad
> > Floaters (sometimes misnamed "pond scum").
> > I gotcha topped on the job scene, tho, fo' sho': whilst working my way
> > thru
> > college, I filed credit checks on chicken-sexers, amongst other
> fascinating
> > workers. They made good money; the occupation must've required unusually
> > keen eyesight. [a credit file info-bit about a nother even better-paid
> man
> > in my hometown: Lear, well known inventor of the Lear Jet, named his
> > daughter Crystal Chanda.]
> >
> > joodles frum---let me check where I am rite now---ah yes, norfolk va usa
> >
> > re your ps: I wouldn't wanna dig too deep for Wot Kind of Anthology (has
> > he
> > mentioned illustrations yet?) it is that Dr. H proposes for just 5 of
> > us---a
> > tactic sure to yield high degrees of panic and competition amongst us
> > lovely
> > gentle folk. <sigh>
> >
> > 2008/7/14 Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>:
> >
> > > Watch it joodlette!! I once sorted eggs in a grocers !! the ones that
> > were
> > > bad floated ---highly skilled it was ---try it with poets???
> > > and any way who is Partick Mcmanus (obviously)
> > > and where is VB
> > > luv P
> > > ps Robbo did not say what sort of anthology
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On
> > > Behalf Of Judy Prince
> > > Sent: 14 July 2008 06:38
> > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > Subject: Re: Five fior our friends ...
> > >
> > > how did McManus get on that Egghead list?
> > > will wonders never cease?
> > >
> > >
> > > 2008/7/13 David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>:
> > >
> > > > Rob
> > > >
> > > > I misread this at first as 'Five of our Fiends'.
> > > >
> > > > Yours
> > > >
> > > > the ever-loving (and flattered)
> > > >
> > > > mispelt (!) surname
> > > >
> > > > (it does matter you know, mine's the Sherwood Forest-Mansfield-Newark
> > > > variation of the surname mister)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 2008/7/13 Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>:
> > > > > If there were a poetryetc anthology with just five people, who
> would
> > > they
> > > > > be?
> > > > >
> > > > > Partick Mcmanus (obviously)
> > > > > Dave Birkinshaw
> > > > > Candice Ward
> > > > > Martin Walker
> > > > > Roger Collett
> > > > >
> > > > > ... any other suggestions?
> > > > >
> > > > > R.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > David Bircumshaw
> > > > Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> > > > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
> > > > The Animal Subsides
> http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> > > > Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Joseph Duemer
> Professor of Humanities
> Clarkson University
> Weblog: sharpsand.net
>
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