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Thanks Max, Andrew, Doug, Barry. Barry, I had thought to examine more seriously what passes for public approbation. Maybe another time. I take your point. Could the public get it right sometimes, even by accident? My first effort was set out in tercet form and concluded: Floating with the current provides false momentum. Celebrate tributariness. But when I looked again, I found a sort of rhyme in the beginning so went the jolly couplet route, recalling dimly, advice from you, Doug, that if you start with a particular feature, best not to drop it without good cause. Andrew, I was happy with reno's/predisposed. Max, I meant that beforehand and even after the fact, I'm still unpersuaded by the merits of such shows. Perhaps it does clunk a bit. The Morry, Max was a front-wheel drive Morris 1100. And it seemed insular to choose either of the then locally manufactured majors. The Morry was almost exotic as I shunted it into the drive-in at Bulleen. Re 'mission statement', I see redundancy already. Run, Max. Perhaps junk Strunk and admit to being a White man? Cheers, Bill > On 21 Jan 2015, at 9:02 am, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > If I say I enjoy this, Bill, and I do, > it’s partly because I used to write light verse like this a lot. > > (Then, I may seem to be implying, > I grew out of it!)(except I didn’t) > > Funny how some examples are world-wide matters, others rather local. > I have to say the only front-drive car I’m aware of is the VW beetle, > but some time, let me know if Morry = Morris (hardly an abbreviation). > (and wasn’t it your instinct to choose the MORE insular?) > > This may lead to a competition - > I bet I missed more mainstream stuff than you - > The Godfather, now, one day I will catch up with it. > The Labor Party line is the quirkiest - > I know of at least three LPs that have gone to seed, or lost their whatever, > but this was part of their converging on the centre, I think. > Oh, I see, so you found another leftwing party? but aren’t naming it… > ‘neither post’ isn’t clicking for me. > > best for now from Max in Seattle > > (where the life-writing group I joined examined everyone’s two-sentence > ‘mission statement’ in detail, in turn, mine last, the longest, and I had to let > them take it part, rewrite it, junk most of it, so that it ended up as pinched > and flat as their own efforts. Our tutor swears by Strunk&White.) > > >> On Jan 21, 2015, at 7:29 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> Offshooting >> >> Veer clear of the middle is my mantra. >> When mates downed Coke, I sipped Fanta. >> >> Beatles favourites: John or Paul? >> I went George; Love is all. >> >> No Ford or Holden my first car. >> A front-drive Morry - less insular. >> >> Football? Cricket? Too mainstream. >> Joined the junior volleyball team. >> >> Don't watch The Wire or Game of Thrones. >> Even The Sopranos got postponed. >> >> Still yet to put myself through Jaws >> or submit to Star Wars' laser sword. >> >> The Da Vinci Code I will not read. >> And The Labor Party has gone to seed. >> >> To cooking shows and housing reno's >> I'm neither post nor pre-disposed. >> >> Though they'll ever be defeated, >> I support amendments at stopwork meetings. >> >> Radio with ads, and all that talkback: >> how, oh how, can this attract? >> >> I'm not averse to fellow feeling >> but popular taste just leaves me reeling. >> >> bw >