CharleyH
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I like it.
2010 Team Poetry Contest
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Think of it as an additional challenge. Can you wax poetic and write while knowing someone is thinking about nibbling on your.....? *devilish laugh*
*wink*
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CharleyH
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lol - Isn't this scenario what poetry is ultimately about when not wanting to commit suicide?Think of it as an additional challenge. Can you wax poetic and write while knowing someone is thinking about nibbling on your.....? *devilish laugh*
*wink*
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Think of it as an additional challenge. Can you wax poetic and write while knowing someone is thinking about nibbling on your.....? *devilish laugh*
*wink*
groan ......... it's a good job we are on the same team or I would be screaming unfair tactics
I wanna name my team -Team Awesome-, in honor of this awesome music video I just discovered:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm5NLxXDSek&feature=player_embedded
DrewBerryLess, you on my team or what? March 3rd. Team Awesome will just use PMs because we're awesome and I believe in my star players ability to do their parts unsupervised. Do we need to know Ted Hughes' translation of Ovid for this? I don't read Ted Hughes because he stuck Sylvia's head in an oven.
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Team Awesome? Well, we are turtles to your hare, and I doubt we mind being so one bit.
PS: I won't comment on the music. All that comes to mind is:
Float like a butterfly.
Sting like a bee.
Your hands can't hit
what your eyes can't see.
PS: I won't comment on the music. All that comes to mind is:
Float like a butterfly.
Sting like a bee.
Your hands can't hit
what your eyes can't see.
line for line, note for note, worst song ever. I can't stop watching it now.
CharleyH
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lol
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I can honestly say I didn't hear a single word that was 'sung' there and now I have a crashing sound in my head
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March 3rd seems so far away. I would like to volunteer myself to drop out from the Team Awesome, and allow other more experienced poets to take my place instead. You can find me at 30 in 30 writing centos everyday.
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annaswirls
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aw come on sunshine, you sure?
March 3rd seems so far away. I would like to volunteer myself to drop out from the Team Awesome, and allow other more exprienced poets to take my place instead. You can find me at 30 in 30 writing centos everyday.
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a plague on all y'alls houses! that was terrible. Worse than talent show day at Jr. High.
In our house, we like waffles
Waffles. Might be a good name for a team in the future.
In our house, we like waffles
Waffles. Might be a good name for a team in the future.
EroticOrogeny
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I hope that doesn't mean you're waffling on playing !
I'm looking forward to this - its been a while since I've written a poem
(not counting provocative private poems for my wife).
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It may just be me, but I don't think this vid is all that bad. It's bad, but "bad" is relative. This one's kind of "baddini," (fake Italian for "sort of bad") 'cuz the singer is out of tune, the instruments (and the amplifiers) aren't plugged in, and mostly 'cuz I cannot understand a single frickin' word in the whole damn thing.
That might be my hearing, though. Too many Led Zep concerts at a tender age.
But you want awesomely bad? Check this out, my man. Lethargic Swedish cheerleaders, a guy in a bad wig, and Barbie. Or Vanilla Shortcake Barbie. Not sure which.
Oh, yeah. With a really insipid song.
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Glad some Vivaldi was on the radio at the same time!
At least with hard rock you (or at least I) can't generally pick out the lyrics.
But then, how many songs have good lyrics?
The librettos of most operas are likely somewhat flat when you just consider the words.
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Hey, kid! Get in there. The team needs you. I want you to think about the Gipper--George Gipp, a great player, a great poet, a great man who looked quite astonishingly like a young Ronald Reagan, not that that matters. Anyway, a great poet who died young. Real young. Y'know, the last thing George said to me, 'Rock,' he said (which was odd, since my name is Tzara), 'Rock, sometime when the team is up against it and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to go out there with all they've got and win just one for the Gipper.'March 3rd seems so far away. I would like to volunteer myself to drop out from the Team Awesome, and allow other more experienced poets to take my place instead. You can find me at 30 in 30 writing centos everyday.
I think you need to write a cento for the Gipper, Drew. Or a sonnet, or a triolet. Or whatever god blessèd thing that that meanie bflagsst dreams up. But you need to write it Drew. You need to write it for the team.
So get your butt out there and write for Team Awesome.
Not that I'll be. Out there. I expect to be having a beer up in the stands and cozying up to the cheerleaders. But I'll be pulling for you, Drew. I will.
Hey, I will. I said.
I do think you shouldn't drop out. These are the kind of things where you learn. They're fun, too.
Usually.
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March 3rd seems so far away. I would like to volunteer myself to drop out from the Team Awesome, and allow other more experienced poets to take my place instead. You can find me at 30 in 30 writing centos everyday.
it was the song, wasn't it?
oh come on, drew- i'm not used to writing in form either. have fun with it!
DrewBerry and BronzeAge didn't sound as excited as everyone else to play, they don't have to play if they're not ready to jump in head first. I like four on four. I'll PM Tristesse to see if she likes Mar 3, if not, Tzara can get on Team 1. Team Awesome is a stupid name. Drewberry and Bronzeage will be welcome as part of my judicial staff.
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Don't think experience matters at all in this seeing as nobody knows what we have to do anyway ...... personally I'm scared sh*tless!
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Tut you should be involved with a guiding hand and a whiplash
Tristesse confirmed via PM that she will be joining the ranks of Team 1 on Wednesday March 3rd. So if we don't hear from BronzeAge, I'll assume these are the teams, four on four. Tzara is still a sub, DrewBerry is out. Captain Charley and Captain EPMD may do whatever it is they want to do to prepare their team. Really, I'm not sure how much you can do to strategize since you won't find out the program until that Wednesday morning at about six or seven AM.
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