They have different monks on rocks in alternative shires Judy.
On 1 October 2011 12:28, Judy Prince <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Surely there are rocks closer to home. For you, David, a rock poem writ by
> me, titleless as yet:
>
> A monk sat on a rock for hours,
> awaiting divine visitation.
> What he got was a revelation:
> a sore bum means the rock won,
> so he moved under an apple tree
> (he was not the brightest bulb
> in the drawer).
>
> On 1 October 2011 12:06, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
>> Beethoven quarreled with everybody therefore he must have been a poet.
>> Can't stop: it seems I'm going to Oxford tomorrow to look at some rocks.
>>
>>
>> On 1 October 2011 09:51, Judy Prince <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> Well, I sat in the sun, wrote 2 minor poems, grilled beefburgers and
>>> cluttered the laminated worktops. I hadn't known Beethoven ('I ain't deaf;
>>> I'm ignoring you') was a poet. His new group sounds grand.
>>>
>>> On 1 October 2011 07:14, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well I put up a new bathroom mirror yesterday (this involved using a
>>>> power drill, a T-square and a spirit level) AND I've laminated my work tops.
>>>> So there :) While I've taken up courses on both Beethoven and the
>>>> Existentialists (almost a name for a group) as I'm wearying of the stunted
>>>> minds of minor poets. Flourish. So double there :)
>>>>
>>>> On 30 September 2011 16:21, Alec Newman <
>>>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> What's 'snarkiness'? Something to do with the great L. C. ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyway, loads has changed: there's the new fudge shop, I'm a Dad, I've
>>>>> got a mutilated hand, I've got a different computer, I've stopped smoking,
>>>>> and I'm drinking a different brand of coffee, and I've finally laminated my
>>>>> work tops.
>>>>>
>>>>> Alec.
>>>>>
>>>>> > Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 07:24:07 -0500
>>>>> > From: [log in to unmask]
>>>>> > Subject: Re: Just imagine if all of those poets had shown up with
>>>>> tools in their hands
>>>>> > To: [log in to unmask]
>>>>>
>>>>> >
>>>>> > much easier to propagate snarkiness than to actually change
>>>>> something...
>>>>> >
>>>>> > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 5:42 AM, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>> > > They could have actually changed something.
>>>>> > >
>>>>> > > Jess
>>>>> > >
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> David Joseph Bircumshaw
>>>> "The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe
>>>> is that none of it has tried to contact us."
>>>> - Calvin & Hobbes
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>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> David Joseph Bircumshaw
>> "The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is
>> that none of it has tried to contact us."
>> - Calvin & Hobbes
>> 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/
>>
>
>
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David Joseph Bircumshaw
"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is
that none of it has tried to contact us."
- Calvin & Hobbes
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
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