From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=23">Kirk</a><BR>
Date: 8 June 2003<P>

"We are all human beings here ... well Kirk may just be a big cyberkuhuna webmaster 'bot like A.L.I.C.E., but we all care enough to post and comment"<BR>
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Drat! My secret is out!<BR>
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kIRK, bLENDER-kEEPER v1.1<BR>
bEEP bEEP bOOP...i aM mERELY sOFTWARE fOR tHE mAINTENENCE oF wEBSITES aND tHE sELECTION oF pOEMS vIA pRE-eSTABLISHED cYBERaESTHETIC cRITERIA aLGORITHMS aND tHE oCCASIONAL gENERATION oF sARCASTIC rEMARKS.<BR>
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bEEP bEEP bOOP!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1120">Chances</a><BR>
Date: 8 June 2003<P>

Kirk - Nobody thinks you are a robot... enjoy your hols.  I would go on strike when I were on holidays if I were you... Indefensible made a fuss last time even, so does it matter? Enjoy and make the most of them. Hope you and Mo are having a wonderful time.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1103">ladyinwaiting</a><BR>
Date: 8 June 2003<P>

Kirk ~ I agree with Chances, every HUMAN deserves a little R and R...I enjoy the months you post your own writings, you are so talented and romantic...also loved the photo album, you and Mo are lovely, and great sense of humor...thank you Kirk for all your hard work that allows others to have a place to escape to...I understand your being AWOL...somedays I just want to be a nobody...not representing anything or anyone...just be a Jane Doe and run wildly through the world without being recognized or any expectations...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=392">Kindred_Spirit49</a><BR>
Date: 8 June 2003<P>

ladyinwaiting~~  <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.06.07.21.44.22606">Multiple Choice</a>  This one, made me think of the choices i have made, and what i must yet make. For a moment it gave me a tinge of sadness. 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=23">Kirk</a><BR>
Date: 8 June 2003<P>

Don't worry all, I wasn't upset about the Rennie's comment, or feeling particularly burned out, or even that defensive about being seen as being AWOL.  Mostly I was amused by the possibility of being a chatbot! <BR>
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I have one online buddy who I got to meet after about 2 years at a video game convention.  It was nice to know he wasn't just a chat and webbot too...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=16">kevin urenda</a><BR>
Date: 8 June 2003<P>

LMAO @ Kirk...  that was too funny!  <BR>
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Hope ALL your holidays are filled with such easy joy...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=909">leamas</a><BR>
Date: 8 June 2003<P>

Hostile, yet simple.  Good combo. Over glorified Fish, Leamas is the name of character in the most acclaimed spy novel to date.  You would have to read it to understand.  BK I'm tremendously fond of the vermin urine thing you've got going on.  It suits you.  <BR>
I'll back off now, not because you deserve it, but for two reasons: 1. The rest of the people on this site do deserve some tranquility, and 2.  Your works are so shockingly hideous and boring that it wouldn't take much to destroy what false and undue confidence you have.  They all have targets on them.  But I won't.  After all since Dr. Seuss (?) passed away there is a public outcry for Saturday morning poetry.  Good luck to ya.---LEAMAS 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1131">indefensible sushi</a><BR>
Date: 8 June 2003<P>

You go, Kirk! Don't listen to the naysayers. That "other" sushi is always causing trouble...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1131">indefensible sushi</a><BR>
Date: 8 June 2003<P>

At the risk of getting all negative (not Sushi's style), I would like to point out to our esteemed Mr. Lamearse that BK's poems have more wit and style and passion in their first syllable than in your entire collected works. Peace out, man.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1">Kirk, Blender-Keeper</a><BR>
Date: 8 June 2003<P>

June Blender is here.<BR>
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Even more shamelss linkery than usual...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1158">rickyfitts</a><BR>
Date: 8 June 2003<P>

Nice job, Kirk.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1139">jwb71913</a><BR>
Date: 8 June 2003<P>

Kirk, I for one never thought of you as a bot.  Thanks for the pick.   Arrr........   Keep the wind in your sails.<BR>
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Jim
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=744">jimmyallgrownup</a><BR>
Date: 8 June 2003<P>

Kirk is NOT a bot! Heavens no!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1236">Trout Elephantine</a><BR>
Date: 8 June 2003<P>

Whoever started that ugly rumor needs to be strung up...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=23">Kirk</a><BR>
Date: 8 June 2003<P>

Err, the original comment was pretty tongue in cheek, so I wouldn't worry too much about it.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 8 June 2003<P>

Kirk~ great Blender again this month, beginning with Cody's quote. Gala, great ramble for anyone to note. I have enjoyed going back and reading the selections once again. AWOL means "away without leave" and I don't believe that Kirk skipped out without warning us :). But I'm still not convinced about the chatterbox 'bot business. I'll ask A.L.I.C.E. about Kirk next time I chat with her ;-). Mention "Rennie" to her and see if she doesn't twist some lines about me trying to teach her love and poetry. She does some whining over that "love" concept, but becomes all poetry generator easily. I always enjoy the subs and comments (even you leamussy). Fishy, your Trader's Wife goes into a favs file here more me. Please expand and write more on that. I absolutely love that one for some deep reason that eludes me. Maybe it is the trips I've taken that direction -- enough for now ..... Rennie 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=436">Jon</a><BR>
Date: 8 June 2003<P>

Congrats to the front pagers, thanks for the pick Kirk-bot ;), just kidding.<BR>
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My list in no particular order:<BR>
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2pac- Greatest Hits<BR>
Daft Punk- Discovery<BR>
Red Hot Chili Peppers- By The Way<BR>
Dashboard Confessional- The Swiss Army Romance<BR>
Thicke- Cherry Blue Skies<BR>
Musiq Soulchild- Juslisen<BR>
Jurassic 5- Power in Numbers<BR>
Frank Sinatra- My Way<BR>
The Beatles- Help!<BR>
Donell Jones- Where I Wanna Be<BR>
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Take care<BR>
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-Jon
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 8 June 2003<P>

beep beep boop! Blender to K.I.R.K. ... lol. Yes, I said that about Kirk, but A.L.I.C.E. put me up to it ..... R.E.N.N.I.E.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1131">indefensible sushi</a><BR>
Date: 8 June 2003<P>

Thank you, ma'am. I may do just that - if, of course, the muse will allow. Nabokov called his characters galley slaves; mine are nowhere near as obedient. In the meantime I have written a bedtime story because I believe one was requested of me.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=796">lupschada</a><BR>
Date: 8 June 2003<P>

Let me tell you, Kirk microwaves a hell of a Boca Italian Sausage for a bot.<BR>
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Thanks for the pick, Kirk, and congrats to the front pagers. Good stuff this month.<BR>
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-- Brooke
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 8 June 2003<P>

Congratulations to the June front pagers.<BR>
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I do need to say I'm sorry to the ones of you that had to read the mean side.  He's not right, it's not like me at all, but the way my New Yorker husband taught me to handle A BUM in the worlds city streets that tried to belittle or spit on you if you didn't put a quarter in their cups.<BR>
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bk 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 8 June 2003<P>

Of course if he were nearby, he would mearly pick the guy up by the throat, (while I watched him dangle) and say. NOW, appologize to the he lady.<BR>
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bk
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1131">indefensible sushi</a><BR>
Date: 8 June 2003<P>

Wow. Remind me not to ever ask you to put a quarter in my cup, BK. LOL... But seriously, you don't have to apologize to us. Someone does need to do some apologizing, but it isn't you. Great Digest, Kirk. I shouldn't have been so impatient.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 8 June 2003<P>

Sush~ I've read his Lolita long ago, and am a galley slave who negotiates the length of her chain from the galley to the keyboard ... you must have caught that in my earlier post :). Please do write more on that one. I'll gladly drop-kick your muse IF she'll get that kind of work out of you ..... Rennie
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 8 June 2003<P>

Sush~ since you posted him, you might enjoy a link on Seth et al (well, maybe not the "liberal" part), but here 'tis: <a href="http://home.capecod.net/~ehahn/sjustman/sethjustman.html">http://home.capecod.net/~ehahn/sjustman/sethjustman.html</a> ..... Rennie
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1206">wiltedrose</a><BR>
Date: 8 June 2003<P>

jessica-if u hate men so much go les...lol thats the only thing i can tell u.. or maybe u just need to stop dateing those jerks and find a real man who really can love u... cuz belive it or not some girls do the same thing guys do!!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=943">jessica</a><BR>
Date: 8 June 2003<P>

wiltedrose- ok i donno if n e one up here is liz so i wont say n e thing about that!!! but i love guys(and jerks) too much to go lez!!!!  and i know gurls can be jerks to...but all guys are jerks...and acually that poem was just about one guy.....but it seemed to make him madder that i made it sound like all guys!!! lol but na im gonna stay straight!!!!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 8 June 2003<P>

Jessica; Yes we have a Liz and some lezes and a girl who likes pezes and some people that come here are living on ledges. One dislike the pres as is and oh my god someone likes John Teshes. Don't start no messes with guys that professes cause at your age getting pregges will cause you big messes and  honey I promise this is the end of this rap confessive.<BR>
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bk
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">tj holland</a><BR>
Date: 8 June 2003<P>

Thanks Sushi. I'm feeling a wee bit edgy thinking about going to sleep tonight. Good thing my windows are painted shut!<BR>
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-Teej
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