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- From: quirke_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: A hug for illiterate flamers
- Date: 27 Jan 93 15:06:31 NZST
- Organization: Welligton City Council, Public Access.
- Lines: 26
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- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.150631.1@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz>
- References: <1993Jan26.075804.7259@news.ysu.edu>
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- Summary: Well, it looked directed in my direction, so I thought I'd fire back...
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- ag936@yfn.ysu.edu (Lance Durden) writes:
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- > HUGS
- > R. H. Grenville
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- [Poem deleted on the grounds that diabetics would be threatened]
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- "It's not, dear Lance" the pundit said,
- "that we dislike you, or wish you dead.
- "It's just your posts make us ill,
- "For of 'romance' we've had our fill.
- "Of bunnies and flowers, and cute little rhymes,
- "We've railed against so many times.
- "The lack of wit, the romantic twaddle,
- "of which your poem was a perfect model.
- "On soc.singles, the misogamists foam and lather,
- "Always avoiding such twee little blather.
- "You'll find a place for all of that"
- "on alt.romance.chat"
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- Tony Q. (not by any stretch of the imagination a poet !)
- --
- Tony Quirke, Wellington, New Zealand (Quirke_A@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz)
- "Only the free have disposition to be truthful.
- Only the truthful have the interest to be just.
- Only the just possess the willpower to be free." - WH Auden.
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