From: Misti
Date: 12 January 2003

Jimmy~
wOw! You are a genius. Now I feel like an idiot for taking the bait.

From: Misti
Date: 12 January 2003

I just went to google. Okay, Jimmy...you might not be a genius. All the same, I feel DUMB. And relieved.

From: B.K.
Date: 12 January 2003

There's as fine a line between idiot/genius as there is between love/hate etc. Let's not go to far here, this GRINCH has been haunting this place for years now and letting google do a page for you is mere fluffery of the fine toothed version. Let's see him write something serious of his own and get front page pick instead of picking on us to to his tricks..ha

bk

From: Misti
Date: 12 January 2003

amen, sista! it is so much easier to destroy than it is to create. right now I'm trying to create a poem for my maternal grandparents...they will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary in June. it's gonna be a huge deal.

From: Kirk
Date: 12 January 2003

Ok, I'll fess up...I'm the one who 'invoked' Mark V Shaney and brought him here. In retrospect, the timing was awful, with people still dealing with Leamas.

www.google.com/search?q=cache:MnbWXES9tjYC:www.sincity.com/penn-n-teller/pcc/shaney.html is a better description, though it's a google cache of a page that isn't available, so I don't know how long it'll be around for.

I've wanted to let Mark V Shaney digest the blender for years, just recently I figured out how to put him together, and then I tapped him into the Blender back end. His works with the name of a month are the result of looking at all the submissions for that month, the tributes are based on all the pieces submitted by that person, and his posts to the message board are based on the message board (though those didn't even come out as well as the other ones, maybe one month of comments isn't enough raw data)

Anyway, I think from now on Mark V Shaney'll just post the month-named poems.

Sorry for spooking anyone...I guess Mark V can seem a little stalkerish to the unitiated.

From: Kirk
Date: 12 January 2003

sorry, that link is:
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:MnbWXES9tjYC:www.sincity.com/penn-n-teller/pcc/shaney.html

From: Chances are
Date: 12 January 2003

Qu'est que c'est?

From: Chances are
Date: 12 January 2003

Misti - Believe it or not, I was contemplating a poem about my own maternal grandparents when I came here tonight. Very spooky - and I loved what you wrote. Your words make my poem very unnecessary at this time - perhaps soon.

Lulu - Love? So much of what I contemplate. Let's hope love's real.

From: Chances are
Date: 12 January 2003

Yes, I am a little contemplative tonight. : |

From: B.K.
Date: 12 January 2003

Kirk; Well that's one less bell to answer. I was worried the aliens were landing with the clone pods already ha...we will get you for that...ha

bk

From: scqueen
Date: 12 January 2003

Kirk, you little sneaker :-) What a hoot. That's a pretty cool program actually. It seems most of us have so much love, respect and loyalty to this site and each other, that we tend to be overprotective when both of those are threatened. Human nature, I guess...so thanks for 'fessing up.

From: mysteriousone07
Date: 12 January 2003

Well Good Morning to all the loveblender members here. Hope everyone is doing great this morning and everyone keeps on writing. Well just want to say that keep at it and that all of you keeps on expressing who you are or what you feel about someone by writing..K I guess that's it alright later..

Jon-that's the guy I was talking about..You're poems are really good. You're words are like an inspiration..good work..Keep at it man..

Chances are-your words just keep on coming..YEAH!! =P

From: mysteriousone07
Date: 12 January 2003

Well Good Morning to all the loveblender members here. Hope everyone is doing great this morning and everyone keeps on writing. Well just want to say that keep at it and that all of you keeps on expressing who you are or what you feel about someone by writing..K I guess that's it alright later..

Chances are-your words just keep on coming..YEAH!! =P

From: Galadrial
Date: 12 January 2003

Ok Ladies and Sirs...

Anyone in the mood for a Valentines Challenge?

Gala (chuckling with evil)

From: B.K.
Date: 12 January 2003

I was wondering when you would get the notion..ha Go for it, we'll bite.

bk

From: Galadrial
Date: 12 January 2003

It's time.

Ok my dears, Gala has a WICKED notion.

Your task:

To write a love poem, without ever ONCE using the word loveor any form or it...no loving, lover, etc.

It must also be Cliche-less, or as close as possible to it.

And for fun...you MUST use words from List A or B again...
List AList B
chocolate
crispy
corny
cupcake
punch
smaltz
serenade
trot
apples
sweet tarts
cannolis
cowtails
red hots
crunchy
vivid
thrifty
bodacious
blithe
simple
spirited
sincere
sinful
wistful
waken
whimsy
yodel
Oh...you must use a minimum of FIVE words from each list.
Don't TELL me who you love.

SHOW ME.
Make me see their eyes.
but...YOU CAN'T SAY LOVE...

and no cliches.

Hehehehehe....ready, set, GO!

From: Misti
Date: 12 January 2003

Kirk~
I was definitely freaked out. Now I'm flattered and intrigued. I'm curious about how that program works. I can't wait to read more.

Gala~
Your timing is brilliant! Sundays are usually dead in Bra & Panties Land. Now I'll have something to work on. Yummmm.

From: Kirk, Blender-Keeper
Date: 12 January 2003

Gala I put that into a table for ya. (And no, in general you can't put HTML on the board, I have to go behind the scenes...in my experience freeform HTML in a public space all ends in tears.)

From: Misti
Date: 12 January 2003

p.s. Chances~ that is wild! There have been lots of funny coincidences here over the years. I'll submit a song or a poem that mentions a certain song and then someone will tell me that they just played that song on their guitar. Well, that's happened twice, actually.

From: Kirk
Date: 12 January 2003

Misti- yeah, sorry about that. I guess he can seem kind of like a stalker when he digs back into the archives of a single user as his sole source material.

Your tributes (plural, in general I let him run a few times to get a good result) didn't come out as well as I'd hoped, the screenplay is a big bulk of text that doesn't jive with your usual style. Maybe sometime I'll make the Mark V Shaney feeder (i.e. the part that digs into the blender archives to provide the raw material) smart enough to go over all your past works (since I switched to the new Blender format, with author profiles and all that) *except* the screenplays.

Anyway, the best description for how it works is in that google link I posted above.

From: galadrial
Date: 12 January 2003

thanks Kahuna!

MUCH better!

From: tj holland
Date: 12 January 2003

WHOA!! Just got back from Army drill and saw mark v shaney explained. That rocks! I thought the guy was from some insane country trying hard with English (damn confusing language that it is). It was strange, finding parts of my stuff in his first garbled rants. The tribute to Tea, Jay made more sense, but only because it was all familiar. (honored, Kirk, thanks). Interesting program. And jimmy...good one on ya for knowing all about that stuff. Smart man.
I guess I'll go get the smell of woodsmoke off my BDU's, pull off the combat boots, peel off the wet wool socks and warm up on a soft couch now. (cold weather survival training is cool, but damned if it doesn't wear you out!)
Hooah,
-Teej

From: Inflatable Sushi
Date: 12 January 2003

Good articles on the menace of pornography:

http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-pornjan12,0,7514039.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dmagazine%2Dmanual

www.latimes.com/pornography

From: Inflatable Sushi
Date: 12 January 2003

http://www.latimes.com/pornography

From: Chances are
Date: 12 January 2003

scqueen - I really liked February 14, 1995 - Doylestown, PA. Best of luck!