From: Paul B<BR>
Date: 10 July 2000<P>

(Sigh) I've been in therapy ever since Silent Voice's attack.  But I'm okay now - (HA)<BR>
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I won't give credence to anyone who can't identify themself.<BR>
As for my 'attack' on celeb.<BR>
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1)The odds are greater in my favor that that wasn't the real Britney Spears<BR>
2)Her being a public figure makes her open game to critiques, jokes and whatever.  (Ever watch Letterman or Leno, Silent?)<BR>
3)Anyone who would take my comment seriously is without a doubt the one with problems.  And your hiding proves it.<BR>
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So take your shots at me if you wish.  I'm fair game as well.<BR>

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From: deevaa<BR>
Date: 10 July 2000<P>

hehe -- Paul.... I just think its nuts actually taking a silent voice seriously enough to actually answer them<BR>
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dee<BR>

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From: nikki<BR>
Date: 10 July 2000<P>

ummm...how can a voice be silent?  doesn't the word itself dispute that?  <BR>
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wow...I must need sleep...and I was reading over my latest...and it doesn't seem to make much sense...but at the time, it sounded really good...sheesh
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From: silent voice<BR>
Date: 10 July 2000<P>

Do we really know who Paul B is? Or Most on this board? Silent Voice is as good a name is Paul B. And just because a person is a public figure does not stamp them free game for slander. And Paul B choose to respond because he knows he acted a fool and is trying to redeem himself.
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From: Rip van Winkle<BR>
Date: 10 July 2000<P>

Now just WHO is this Brittany Spears person, and what is she doing that has caused such a ruckus?
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From: Angel<BR>
Date: 10 July 2000<P>

Thank you, Laurel, Nikki, Megs and Claire for your boosting comments about my works. I am way behind in my reading but hope to catch up this evening. <BR>
I did read Zero#1's works ,for one because he is new, secondly because of other comments I have seen here about him, and thirdly because of the name...lol...And I might add that they are wonderful...so ,I do cheat and skip around a bit and sometimes I am selective about titles or authors in choosing which I read first, but I generally read each and ever poem submitted and have only found one in two years that I just downright abhorred.
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From: Zero #1<BR>
Date: 10 July 2000<P>

Thank you all for the comments about my stuff. Although sometimes I wonder where I get some of this freaky stuff!<BR>
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Angel~ I hope you liked what you read! I didn't know my  name would make anybody laugh lol<BR>
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Jenna~ Hey, thanx for the self-esteem boost. <BR>
It means a lot.
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From: Zero #1<BR>
Date: 10 July 2000<P>

Zoe~ I just read WHAT I WANT and I must say, that's quite a list. Although, sometimes I feel like I could put some of the things I want, they just never come down and out right. 
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From: C.L. Hollinghead<BR>
Date: 10 July 2000<P>

Howdy people! I was surfing the net when I found this place. I've already submitted 3 poems and have read a few of ya'lls. I like a lot of them! Well, I gotta get. Ya'll have a nice day!
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From: Paul B<BR>
Date: 10 July 2000<P>

Dee- you are right.  But I couldn't resist a battle of wits with someone who was unarmed.  Call me a bully.  But at least I'm nut gutless like a certain unnamed person.  I stand by my comments and take the consequences.  But like a predator in the night or a child molestor on the net, this other person would rather remain annonymous so they can lurk amoung us without their true self revealed.  <BR>
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I'm a changed man now.  I'll never tell another joke.  And, Silent, should I show up at your place of employment for lunch would you super size my meal as a peace offering?<BR>
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From: Galadrial<BR>
Date: 10 July 2000<P>

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Paul---I am appalled......fighting with a nameless voice?<BR>
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Claire---thank you for the remarks---you do great analysis---and we need more of it..<BR>
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C.L. Hollinghead------I have a partialiality to things magickal....and you stuff sent me on a flight of fancy---thanks!<BR>
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Kev---nice form...nice focus...I like.  <BR>
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                                       So says Gala
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From: deevaa<BR>
Date: 10 July 2000<P>

Silent Voice -- you are right about your name... I actually didn't mean YOU actually.. I meant the Brittany one.... the ones that are obvious piss-takes.... really what is the point of fighting with someone like that? (just my POV)<BR>
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dee<BR>
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From: Megs<BR>
Date: 10 July 2000<P>

Paul-  You are like...the Blender antagonist of silent voices. *grin*  Not necessarily in a bad way... And I have to give Silent Voice a nod for his/her point about names.  I mean...its as good a name as any.  <BR>
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ZoE-  Mmmmmmm...agreeing with you on "What I Want".  Except a Cancer is supposed to be a good match for me.  Or a Scorpio.  The guy I just broke up with is a Cancer.  The guy I am chasing after (sorta?) is a Scorpio.  Just a thought that occured.  So what is YOUR sign?<BR>
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Till later-<BR>
Megs<BR>
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From: silent voice<BR>
Date: 10 July 2000<P>

Paul you continue to make yourself a fool. I merely pointed out that to slam anyone for no just reason is idiotic and insensitive and the truly gutless one is apparent here. I envision you tying tin cans to little puddy-tat tails and pushing tiny tots down in their own poo-filled diddies when you were rearing up.
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Date: 10 July 2000<P>

zero#1- Yeah What a picky girl I am. Well,the list is only ideals. Mostly, I'll take what I can get, give or take a little.<BR>
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MeGs- I'm a leo. Cancers are apparantly my worst enemies or m,atches, whichever which I notice to be true. It's funny, because one of my bestfriends is a cancer but she can get on my nerves. What's your sign?<BR>
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-ZoE
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From: Rip van Winkle<BR>
Date: 10 July 2000<P>

Piss takes?!  I wager it's better to be pissed off (such as  the two pugilists of the board?) than pissed ON, eh?
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Date: 10 July 2000<P>

Paul, you are a bully
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From: chris w. at [email-masked]<BR>
Date: 10 July 2000<P>

Well, I've been gone out to Colorado for my sister's wedding, which was incredible!  But now I'm back and realizing that I have a hell of a lot of reading to do.<BR>
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Claire: Thanks for your comment...I really admire your work, and because of you and others who seem to really know what they are doing, I've been inspired to run out and buy a book on poetry to learn the specifics. <BR>
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And Dee:  Woo hoo!  I'm back.  Be looking for an email!<BR>

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From: deevaa<BR>
Date: 10 July 2000<P>

OK.... this is just going way to far now -- my point was not to bash Paul B or Silent voice. <BR>
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It was that really is there any point in spending our time and energy responding to nameless 'bait droppers' - I mean really what is the point of spending days commenting on the board why Misti rocks your world, or why Michael should stop 'ranting' or why ALL the poetry here sucks (to name just a few that have come up recently).<BR>
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Really -- is debating these points making best use of our time, or just wasting what time we do have to write, or critique or just to sit back and read...every notice that if you don't respond at all to the baiters that they just go away? Try is some time.<BR>
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dee<BR>
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PS Chris W -- welcome back handsome (wink) I'll be looking.
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From: C.L. Hollinghead<BR>
Date: 10 July 2000<P>

Thanks for the comment Galadrial! I really liked your poem "Skinned Knees of the Heart"! It brought back all those memories and was very vivid!<BR>
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And I really like this community but there's a little to much bickering*L*.<BR>
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From: nikki...a.k.a. hippie chick<BR>
Date: 10 July 2000<P>

Wow, did I actually manage to stay out of most of that bickering this time?  I mean, aside from my 3AM comment about voices not being silent and all, which I meant as no slur, merely the question of an exhausted mind....<BR>
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ANYway...Did you ever notice that if you just let go every once in a while, everything falls back into perspective?  I am SOOOOOOO happy today, and I really have no reason for it, other than being alive!<BR>
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FGM--you are correct, hon, I do have my own brand, if I would just stop pushing it away...<BR>
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I'm on top of cloud nine, and the only reason is that I woke up this morning, and realized that I LOVE being me...does that count Kirk?  Because I am getting ready to go read and write some simply girlish poetry.....<BR>
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I absolutely adore you my sweet lovebugs...Paul....let it go sweetie...your making wrinkles in your forehead...<BR>
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silent voice...welcome if you like, go if you don't, but try to get along..we are mainly happy people here...(heartbreaks aside for the moment...)<BR>
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Chris W.  welcome back luv, missed your style!<BR>
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And C.L. Hollinghead....a most warm welcome to you!  Please stay a bit, and get to know our little community...<BR>
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I'm off, and if I owe anyone e-mail....hmmm....it could very well be on it's way...shortly...and if anyone owes me mail...I'm cutting some slack today!<BR>
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Skipping merrily off....nikki
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From: nikki...back for more<BR>
Date: 10 July 2000<P>

I know I know..I should do this all at once....sorry Kirk...forgive me?<BR>
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Romeo--Romeo sans Juliet is heart-wrenching..<BR>
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ZoE--'What I want' Darlin' you never cease to amaze me with your talent.  Over half the things on that list are what I want...but my list seems to change with the weather....hehehehe<BR>
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C.L.-'What I've Missed' very sweet, and she's very lucky<BR>
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Kev--sweetie, I love 'foreign'...you have a superb way with words!<BR>
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Joel--'Close Your eyes' I wish I could offer words of comfort...perhaps all I can say is sometimes it gets easier<BR>
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Megs--'Less of Me'..girl, I see so much of me in you...you are stronger than you think, you know...let yourself grow, luv<BR>
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Matt--'Miss you tonight'...I'm not sure it needs more...I like it the way it is...<BR>
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Ok, I am really off this time...too many thoughts to keep me quiet much longer...<BR>
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luv you....nikki
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From: nikki<BR>
Date: 10 July 2000<P>

Terry--'Leftover' reached out and grabbed me...it's very vivid...thank you for sharing, hun.
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From: ZoE<BR>
Date: 10 July 2000<P>

Thanks NiKki :) *smiles*<BR>
-ZoE
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From: Angel<BR>
Date: 10 July 2000<P>

Awww we really are a charming bunch...*smile*...not much bickering most of the time, C L hollinghead, right group???<BR>
(((Group Hugs)))<BR>
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Gala~ appears trip may be delayed if gas prices don't go down and the baby still has the inner ear infection going on(she won't be able to fly)Still hoping...sheeeesh i need a break.
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From: Megs<BR>
Date: 10 July 2000<P>

Dee- I agree w/ your view on the bickers.  I just drifted past it this time.  Not feeling too controversial.  I have been thinking of you lots because I am reading that "Bridget Jones's Diary" and for some reason the character makes me think of you (and myself...not in bad ways)<BR>
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Nikki- Thanks for mentioning "Less of Me"  I am soooooo overwhelmed by men (all in bad ways unfortunately)  I keep trying to remember MYSELF.  Ugh!!!<BR>
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ZoE- I am a Pisces...through and through.  Very true to my sign.  I am supposed to match famously with Scorpio gents but the object of MY affection is giving me FITS!!! Say a prayer to the stars...<BR>
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I have been wearing those pink "Karma Beads" (the ones for luck in love- totally superstitious chick here)  Well the other day they broke!!! SCARY!!!  Is that a doomed sign or what?<BR>
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*Hiding from black cats and other crossed stars*<BR>
Megs
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