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David you sneaky old thingy!! P sneaked on -----Original Message----- From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Bircumshaw Sent: 30 April 2010 09:58 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Jump Cut The Definition I'll let you in on a secret Patrick : I was doing what's called* making it up* On 30 April 2010 07:48, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > Well what I meant thought that I was pointing out that even yuppies need > the > canals to commit suicide in so the term would still be relevant!!! > Greets all have a wonderful weekend and no Jumping in the cut > P > Ps the Market at Waterloo (London) is also called the cut but you would > need > to pop down the road to jump in water in the Thames (could be a poem in > this) > PPS been asked by a publisher to do a new book it just seems too much to > even contemplate it! anyone know that feeling??? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On > Behalf Of David Bircumshaw > Sent: 29 April 2010 23:10 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Jump Cut The Definition > > I've no idea why anyone would think yuppification means emptying canals. I > believe the writer of the definition originally considered 'gentrification' > but abandoned it as belonging to echoes of the squirearchy. My > understanding > is that the implied point is that the poor avoid the areas now as being the > territory of *them worriz posh*. > > On 29 April 2010 21:19, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > yuppification doesn't mean emptying, surely. > > I picture smart apartments with flower-boxes and bright paint, polished > > doorknobs, lining clean well-lit paths and waterways. > > nicht war? > > > > Max > > > > Quoting Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>: > > > > > Nice title for a pamphlet > > > And why did the yuppies empty the canals seems they are a public > service > > ?? > > > P confused again > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > On > > > Behalf Of Judy Prince > > > Sent: 29 April 2010 13:08 > > > To: [log in to unmask] > > > Subject: Re: Jump Cut The Definition > > > > > > At last, a serious researcher (if not speller). > > > > > > j oodles > > > > > > On 29 April 2010 01:17, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > Jump-cut (jump cut): > > > > > > > > 1. An abbreviation of 'To Jump in the Cut': a method of suicide > > practised > > > > by > > > > the Birmingham poor before the yuppification of the canalside areas. > > > > > > > > 2. Feelings of despair likely to result in such behavoiur > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au > > > > > > -- > David Bircumshaw > "Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling" > Website and A Chide's Alphabet > http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw > twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave > blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/ > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.437 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2842 - Release Date: 04/29/10 > 06:27:00 > -- David Bircumshaw "Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling" Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.437 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2842 - Release Date: 04/29/10 18:27:00