Discuss: The Poetry Eye-Roll

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21- Mosquitobyte on Mar. 12 2008

People suck? Hell, I've known that since I was a child. Eventually I discovered that many swallow and the odd show off gargles.....

*Looks angelic and trots off to Grand Prix*

Mos.

22- Anstey on Mar. 12 2008

Mos, you're precisely eleven sorts of wrong in a box made for twelve.

One of the great things about this place is the way you can never tell how your posts are going to be massaged, manipulated, man-handled, mauled, made love to, milked, mothered... Just like life itself. From a tossed, lost bunny to nukes and small pox, it's all part of the plan. Or is it...?

----- Sometimes, ya gotta approach me like the postman does and ring twice.

24- Laurie on Mar. 12 2008

You may not know it by looking at me or by my delightfully helpful and sweet persona, but I have been known to beat the crap out of exactly the type of sucky people mentioned in this thread...

25- Leanne on Mar. 12 2008

From now on my comeback to poetry meanies is going to be "You take that back or I'll sic Laurie onto you."

26- Mosquitobyte on Mar. 13 2008

" Mos, you're precisely eleven sorts of wrong in a box made for twelve. "

Only eleven? Dang! I must be losing my touch. Shhhh, don't tell anyone, I have a reputation to keep down.

You know, once someone told me I should try to keep my mind out of the gutter. My response was to advise them that I dare not even dream of such lofty heights.... :P

Mos

27- Pags on Mar. 13 2008

Going back to the original quation, I think its in the tone of voice as this was a spoken conversation. Semantics matter less I suspect. When you told them were you buoyed up and upbeat (an implied wow) or flat? If you were upbeat then I thoink you just reinforced the idea that you are an odd chap obsessed by poetry.

My work colleagues thought this about me untill I began quoting little willies I had written. Now they demand I read stuff people want to publish to them. One even demanded I explained sonnets to her. Yup. I did.

I would be delighted to accept the invitation to attend. Does the committee run to travel expences to visiting poets from UK??

28- Anstey on Mar. 13 2008

Sadly, the committee probably won't, or I'd have you here last week, with Leanne, Laura, and many other International Freaks of Poetic Nature.

29- Pags, IFPN on Mar. 13 2008

Aw, sucks. I would love to have met such an august crowd. International freak - yup. I can cope with that. I shall wear that title with pride.

30- Celticlion on Apr. 27 2008

I can only console you, Stephan, by one upping you. There is something worse than the poetry eye roll. It is the opera horn head blowing glass shatter. I sang in the D.C. area in all the big venues professionally until I couldn't do it anymore- so competetive and draining- but whilst I did, I'd meet people and they'd ask me what I did. I'd tell them, I'm an opera singer. The reaction 90% of the time was to look at me like a freak, ask me if I liked opera, ask me what opera was it the gal wore the horns and could I shatter glass.....Now? The only folks who have it worse are male ballet dancers, but they are staring at their own incredibly firm buttocks in the mirror as they arabesque and glissade, so they don't notice. Maybe that's the answer. Go for asking for time off for your ballet class and then put your big ole footsies in fourth position and gracefully plie.Tell your boss it's so refreshing and limbering. Hehehehe. Just kidding....C

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