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    Yesterday, 10:06 PM
    Haunted posted a visitor message on qimissung's profile
    Oh a shame that I missed it, I would have voted. You have the most imaginative and inspiring poetry contest subjects! I helped foster a few cats,...
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    Yesterday, 09:47 PM
    AuntShecky replied to a thread "Authenticity in a World of Distractions" in General Writing
    Yours fooly has no academic credentials in the realm of "Philosophy of Human Nature," so I wouldn't presume to judge it on that basis, such as...
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    Yesterday, 09:18 PM
    AuntShecky replied to a thread The Body in the Bell Tower in Short Story Sharing
    The reason I brought up "Sinjun" is that we Yanks (the general term, not the irritating baseball team) often mispronounce British proper names. From...
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    Yesterday, 08:14 PM
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    Cry Baby Cry ~ The Beatles
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    Yesterday, 06:26 PM
    Delta40 started a thread One, Two & Three in Personal Poetry
    My jesters bag rises in colour and the bells that tinkle when I cycle, drown all opinion. Pity I move so fast past the feelings of others...
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    Yesterday, 05:41 PM
    Delta40 replied to a thread The Ultimate Contest in Personal Poetry
    It is and then followed on by the show 1001 ways to die where a woman who liked to be vomited on during sex sought out these winners of hot dog comps...
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    Yesterday, 02:01 PM
    Hawkman replied to a thread Would You?? in Forum Games
    I asked 'em but they took the fifth. would you make a successful paparazzo?
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    Yesterday, 01:59 PM
    Hawkman replied to a thread Aye or Nay? in Forum Games
    Nah, tastes like polystyrene! Safari?
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    Yesterday, 01:56 PM
    Hawkman replied to a thread Game: Ask the Person Below You in Forum Games
    Fascinating! Why do you hate banjos? were you frightened by one as a child? :D As for this weekend, I reckon plan 9 looks good - it's from outer...
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    Yesterday, 01:28 PM
    PrinceMyshkin replied to a thread The Ultimate Contest in Personal Poetry
    Thanks a lot, Haunted. I hesitated to post this poem because - as you yourself feel - the concept is so ugly! And thank you Grit, Symphony and...
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    Yesterday, 11:56 AM
    Hawkman replied to a thread Game: Ask the Person Below You in Forum Games
    I've always been partial to igneous rocks. Why is it that gentlemen aren't supposed to play banjos?
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    Yesterday, 07:28 AM
    Hawkman replied to a thread Reverie in Personal Poetry
    I'm afraid the mention of birds falling out of the sky makes me think there must have been an outbreak of West Nile Fever. I'd also express...
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    Yesterday, 06:20 AM
    Delta40 replied to a thread Blood in the snow in Personal Poetry
    Everything above and below Jerry.
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    Yesterday, 04:35 AM
    Hawkman replied to a thread Game: Ask the Person Below You in Forum Games
    Gotta be Hannibal Lecter! Anthony Hopkins made him so sympathetic - lol Why aren't there more dead zebras on the roads?
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    Yesterday, 04:06 AM
    Hawkman replied to a thread De mortius nil nisi bonum in Short Story Sharing
    I see the double post gremlins are back again ;) I quite like the subordinate deaths idea - reminds me a bit of Pratchett's Rinsewind the Wizard who...
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    Yesterday, 03:54 AM
    Hawkman replied to a thread The Body in the Bell Tower in Short Story Sharing
    Hi Auntie, and thanks for reading. Yes, I always enjoyed Wimsey as portrayed by the late Ian Carmichael. Glad you can tolerate Christie and Sayers,...
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    Yesterday, 03:04 AM
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    The last in particular is annoying. I think all people in administrative positions should be trained to listen, hear and maybe even respond to what...
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    Yesterday, 01:05 AM
    AuntShecky replied to a thread The Body in the Bell Tower in Short Story Sharing
    When I first started reading this, it reminded me of a Father Brown mystery, that is if G.K. Chesterton had taken a couple o' tokes of something a...
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    Yesterday, 12:59 AM
    symphony replied to a thread The Ultimate Contest in Personal Poetry
    How is it that I ramble on and on and on and end up with poems that don't make sense to sensible people, and then I see these two-liners by you, and...
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    Yesterday, 12:38 AM
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    Yeah, our part of the world is looking more and more like the latter days of the Roman empire in all it's bacchanalian excess. Too bad I don't get to...
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    Yesterday, 12:29 AM
    qimissung posted a visitor message on Haunted's profile
    Hi Haunted! Glad to see you haunting our halls once again. I noticed you'd been gone awhile. Eh, that contest is over now, but not to worry, there...
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    Yesterday, 12:12 AM
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    But obviously not slaves to grammar. "Us gods?" This posting is not really a short story. It reads like a precis of an episode about Apollo from...
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    05-16-2013, 11:59 PM
    AuntShecky replied to a thread second chance in Personal Poetry
    "gunts"? "fonds"? "wonds?" You must have some bizarr-o dictionary. Please take the time to start READING. Please try to make sense.
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    05-16-2013, 11:36 PM
    AuntShecky replied to a thread Rosalie in Personal Poetry
    The sentiment is unassailable, the portrait of Rosalie is vivid, and the sounds of some of the lines (alliteration) are pleasant to hear in the...
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    05-16-2013, 11:27 PM
    AuntShecky replied to a thread judgemental in Personal Poetry
    There is nothing wrong with being "unconventional" -- in fact creating anything "new" demands it. However, the problem with much ofyour work, as I...
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    05-16-2013, 11:21 PM
    AuntShecky replied to a thread DocHeart's poetry corner in Personal Poetry
    Long time, no see, Doc. #200 is an evocative word picture, an eloquent reference to the theme that nature can often soothe and compensate for the...
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    05-16-2013, 11:10 PM
    AuntShecky replied to a thread Blood in the snow in Personal Poetry
    Quite affecting, morose but not maudlin. It shows respect for the woman and what she has lost in a subtle, highly respectful way. The subject is...
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    05-16-2013, 10:56 PM
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    Gotta love the "Google" ads atop of the LitNet threads. The one tonight promotes "Wild Hog Hunting in SC. Big, mean wild hogs in the swamps. Check...
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    05-16-2013, 10:36 PM
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    The reason I ask is that most comedy writers are male (not that there's anything wrong with that, to quote Seinfeld.) Being of the opposite...
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    05-16-2013, 08:15 PM
    Haunted replied to a thread The Ultimate Contest in Personal Poetry
    I always wondered and shocked by the irony (or is it hypocrisy) of eating contests, when one is forced to eat while others have no choice but starve....
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    Would you consider voting in the "Don't know much about history" poetry contest? Many thanks!

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I love electoral campaigns, especially when there is someone I can root for and against. The campaigns in the USA are of special interest to me because there is so much at stake there. I get involved not exclusively on the ground of the issues but equally or even more so, in terms of the intuitions and visceral reactions I have about the respective candidates.

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