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i have had my ups and downs but wotthehell wotthehell yesterday sceptres and crowns fried oysters and velvet gowns and today i herd with bums but wotthehell wotthehell i wake the world from sleep as i caper and sing and leap when i sing my wild free tune wotthehell wotthehell under the blear eyed moon i am pelted with cast off shoon but wotthehell wotthehell do you think that i would change my present freedom to range for a castle or moated grange wotthehell wotthehell cage me and i d go frantic my life is so romantic capricious and corybantic and i m toujours gai toujours gai i know that i am bound for a journey down the sound in the midst of a refuse mound but wotthehell wotthehell oh i should worry and fret death and i will coquette there s a dance in the old dame yet toujours gai toujours gai i once was an innocent kit wotthehell wotthehell with a ribbon my neck to fit and bells tied onto it o wotthehell wotthehell but a maltese cat came by with a come hither look in his eye and a song that soared to the sky and wotthehell wotthehell and i followed adown the street the pad of his rhythmical feet o permit me again to repeat wotthehell wotthehell my youth i shall never forget but there s nothing i really regret wotthehell wotthehell there s a dance in the old dame yet toujours gai toujours gai the things that i had not ought to i do because i ve gotto wotthehell wotthehell and i end with my favorite motto toujours gai toujours gai Thank you, O inimitable Don Marquis MC Ward wrote: > "Wottehell" is forbidden (everybody knows that). > > Snarkily (sp?) yours, > Candice > > > > --- Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > >> You can post what you like if you're a private >> individual; if you post >> representing an organisation, well, yes, from the >> organisation's POV, >> yes, it does matter. For a start, you wouldn't get >> snarky threads like >> this happening. If the Editor of the Guardian writes >> to me, then I >> expect his missives to be perfect and in good order, >> if the missive is >> full of spelling mistakes then well ... OTOH, if >> Alan Rusbridger >> writes to me as one individual to another, even on >> an open forum, then >> wottehell. I don't care. He can even say shit or >> fuck if he wants. So >> I guess the answer to your question is contextual. >> If you email the >> forum with news of an event/organisation, then, >> unless the email >> states otherwise, I will assume that there is >> connection between you >> and that event/organisation. >> >> Is there a point in being anal? I guess, >> unfortunately, that's my job; >> that's what computer scientists and engineers do >> best. They dance on >> pin-heads for a living, arguing about the validity >> or watchemacallit >> of symbols, signs and semantics. It's the comic-book >> guy from the >> Simpsons, but worse. However, as text-smiths, if we >> aren't anal about >> words, and you take analness to be some sort of >> measure of care, >> absorption etc, what do we care about? >> >> As for the usage of the word "shit", it's not the >> word that's the >> issue, it's who it was said by (forum moderator) is >> a slight issue. >> Speaking as an ordinary list-member, I don't mind if >> list-members use >> the words shit and fuck in any and every email, but, >> like it or not, >> once you're the forum moderator, added-value get's >> attached to any >> email you send, whatever the context. >> >> Roger >> >> On 4/2/07, Joseph Duemer <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >>> So if I post that the Wallace Stevens Journal, for >>> >> which I am an editor, is >> >>> interested in poems dealing with Stevens' life & >>> >> themes, it's not really me >> >>> posting? How does that transformation occur? And >>> >> is the entity that posts in >> >>> my place to be held to more exacting editorial >>> >> standards than me, when I >> >>> post as myself? >>> >>> jd >>> >>> On 4/2/07, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> >>>> He's posting for ICORN, not as an individual. >>>> >> ICORN, whose aims I >> >>>> sympathise with, is supposed to be a "literary" >>>> >> quarterly involved in >> >>>> the translation of poetry, has been advertised >>>> >> by an email which >> >>>> contains at least two major spelling mistakes >>>> >> concerning a poet's name >> >>>> and one of his better poems; I notice the rest >>>> >> of the email was >> >>>> immaculate. Maybe I expect too much; but you >>>> >> expect no one to comment? >> >>>> This list is full of smart-arses, that's one of >>>> >> it's speicial >> >>>> qualities. I remember someone calling it the >>>> >> awkward squad. >> >>>> Roger >>>> >>>> On 4/2/07, Joseph Duemer <[log in to unmask]> >>>> >> wrote: >> >>>>> Ren Powell is a member of this, uh, community. >>>>> >> Posts to the list from >> >>>>> members are not, by definition, "spam." In >>>>> >> fact, it is quite common for >> >>>>> members to post announcements to the list >>>>> >> about various journals, >> >>>> readings, >>>> >>>>> etc. And if we all posted corrections to each >>>>> >> others typos & >> >>>> misspellings we >>>> >>>>> would crash the server. >>>>> >>>>> jd >>>>> >>>>> On 4/2/07, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> >>>>> >> wrote: >> >>>>>> Greetings BenjiMouse. Just in time to >>>>>> >> witness the, uh, shit hitting >> >>>> the >>>> >>>>>> fan. >>>>>> >>>>>> re: Wellfed Owens: fine by me if Poetry orgs >>>>>> >> wish to spam this list, >> >>>>>> at least they should get the poetry bits >>>>>> >> correctly spelled etc o'wise >> >>>>>> it dents their credibility, no? >>>>>> >>>>>> Roger >>>>>> >>>>>> On 4/2/07, Robin Hamilton >>>>>> >> <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >>>>>>> From: "MJ Walker" <[log in to unmask]> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> There is a life elsewhere. >>>>>>>> mj >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> No there isn't -- ask Coriolanus. Or >>>>>>> >> Cavafy, in "The City". >> >>>>>>> PedantMouse >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/ >>>>>> "Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious." >>>>>> >> Oscar Wilde >> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Joseph Duemer >>>>> Professor of Humanities >>>>> Clarkson University >>>>> [sharpsand.net] >>>>> >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/ >>>> "Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious." Oscar >>>> >> Wilde >> >>> >>> -- >>> Joseph Duemer >>> Professor of Humanities >>> Clarkson University >>> [sharpsand.net] >>> >>> >> -- >> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/ >> "Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious." Oscar Wilde >> >> > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Be a PS3 game guru. > Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games. > http://videogames.yahoo.com/platform?platform=120121 > > -- Tad Richards http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/ http://opusforty.blogspot.com/