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On 1 October 2011 12:55, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> They have different monks on rocks in alternative shires Judy.
>
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> On 1 October 2011 12:28, Judy Prince <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> 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
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>>>>> 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
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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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