From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1269">Injun Joe</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

In Dave Pilkey's "Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants", the "evil Professor" forces everyone to assume new names. You will follow  orders!<BR>
<BR>
        Use the third letter of your first name to determine your new first name:<BR>
<BR>
a = poopsie b = lumpy c = buttercup d = gidget e = crusty f = greasy  g = fluffy h = cheeseball i = chim-chim j = stinky k = flunky l = boobie m = pinky n = zippy o = goober p = doofus q = slimy r = loopy s = snotty t = tootie u = dorkey v = squeezit w = oprah  x = skipper     y = dinky z = zsa-zsa<BR>
<BR>
        Use the second letter of your last name for the first half of your new last name:<BR>
<BR>
a = apple  b = toilet  c = giggle  d = burger e = girdle  f = barf g = lizard   h = waffle i = cootie j = monkey    k = potty l = liver m = banana n = rhino o = bubble       p = hamster q = toad r = gizzard s = pizza t = gerbil     u = chicken   v = pickle w = chuckle x = tofu y = gorilla<BR>
z = stinker<BR>
<BR>
        Use the fourth letter of your last name to find the second half of your new name:<BR>
<BR>
a = head b = mouth c = face d = nose e = tush f = breath g = pants h = shorts i = lips j = honker k = butt l = brain m = tushie n = chunks o = hiney p = biscuits q = toes     r = buns s = fanny   t = sniffer u = sprinkles v = kisser   w = squirt   x = humperdinck  y = brains         z = juice<BR>
<BR>
        For example, George W. Bush's new name is "Goober Chickenshorts."<BR>
<BR>
        And remember... "Children laugh an average of 146<BR>
times a day, adults laugh an an average of 4 times."<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1269">Injun Joe</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

      GOING AWAY? DON'T SAY...<BR>
<BR>
IRELAND  "Are you magically delicious or just angry and drunk? This beer is black -- did a leprechaun crap in it?"<BR>
<BR>
FRANCE  "Can I get a side of Freedom Fries with that? Aren't the French just Germans who can make sauces?" <BR>
<BR>
ITALY  "Is the Pope Polish? Does he have super powers like Jesus? I could sure go for a can of Spaghetti-O's! "<BR>
<BR>
POLAND  "Do you hire foreigners to screw in your light bulbs?"<BR>
<BR>
GERMANY  "Is this bratwurst kosher?"<BR>
<BR>
TURKEY  "Where's the hash at? Is it cool to recreationally slaughter Kurds?"<BR>
<BR>
KOREA  "Can you watch my puppy for a minute?"<BR>
<BR>
CHINA  "This wall isn't so great."<BR>
<BR>
SWEDEN  "Got any normal meatballs? Want to hear a dumb blonde joke?"<BR>
<BR>
YEMEN "What a stupid name. What's it mean -- 'Land Of Fanatics And Dust'?"<BR>
<BR>
INDIA  "You don't live in teepees? Where can I get a good steak around here?"<BR>
<BR>
SPAIN  "So, this is the country that's not Portugal Where can I get some Cheez Whiz Nachos?"<BR>
<BR>
MEXICO  "What's that smell?"<BR>
<BR>
SAUDI ARABIA  "Would you like to see my designs for a solar-powered car? Is it legal to beat your wives here, or what?"<BR>
<BR>
RUSSIA  "Is it always this cold and economically devastated?"<BR>
<BR>
UZBEKISTAN  "Can you spell Uzbekistan?"<BR>
<BR>
GREECE  "I hear this place is a less expensive version of Italy."<BR>
<BR>
AFGHANISTAN  "Seriously, where is the real country? Where is everything?"<BR>
<BR>
JAPAN  "What's Hiroshima? A kind of sushi?"<BR>
<BR>
AUSTRALIA  "How can we stop Mel Gibson? Is there a cure?"<BR>
<BR>
AMERICA  "Was John Wayne really gay?"<BR>
<BR>
(LEAMAS, YOU ROCK!)<BR>
<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1269">Injun Joe</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

(From an article by Tom Norris about the annual  "Fellowship Baptist Creation Science Fair," to get kids excited about Creation and God's truth, open to students from who "don't mind replacing Scientific Method ...with  a firm belief that come Judgment Day, the streets will flow with the blood of the Non-Believers.")<BR>
<BR>
Some of this year's winners:<BR>
<BR>
        Fifth Grader Cassidy Turnbull's project was, "My Uncle Is A Man Named Steve (Not A Monkey)." Uncle Steve was present, standing next to pictures of apes... If that wasn't enough to convince you of his parentage, Cassidy offered him a banana, which he declined. He also didn't throw crap at anyone. What further proof do you need?<BR>
<BR>
        Jonathan Goode (grade 7) offered, "Women Were Designed For Homemaking." (Amen, Brother J!)  The proof...<BR>
<BR>
        1. "Physics shows that women have a lower center of gravity than men, making them more suited to carrying groceries and laundry baskets."<BR>
<BR>
         2. "Biology shows that women were designed to carry un-born babies in their wombs and to feed born babies milk, making them the natural choice for child rearing."<BR>
<BR>
         3. "Social sciences show that the wages for women workers are lower than for normal workers, meaning that they are unable to work as well and thus earn equal pay."<BR>
<BR>
        4. "Exegetics shows that God created Eve as Adam's companion, not his co-worker." (Excellent work, Jonathan, and good luck getting laid when you grow up...)<BR>
<BR>
And let's not forget 1st prizewinner Patricia Lewis for her brilliant experiment to see if life can evolve from non-life...Patricia placed all the non- living ingredients of life -- carbon (a charcoal briquette), purified<BR>
water, and assorted minerals (a multi-vitamin) -- into a sealed glass jar.<BR>
<BR>
The jar was left undisturbed, being exposed only to sunlight, for three weeks...No life evolved.<BR>
<BR>
This shows that life cannot come from non-life through natural processes, and that intelligence cannot come from non-intelligence.<BR>
<BR>
His will be done, I guess...<BR>
<BR>
<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1269">Injun Joe</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

...and my addition to the "what is good poetry" debate:<BR>
          <BR>
"Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly."<BR>
                                             ~ Dalai Lama<BR>
<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1120">Chances</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

Injun Joe - 'Rated-X' lyrics... performed by the White Stripes! hmmmmm....
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1269">Injun Joe</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

no, it is a song by the sublime loretta lynn ("rated x," that is...)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1120">Chances</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

oh, I looked it up on google and found the White Stripes had done a cover (no argument as to the author of the lyrics). Coincidence?
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1139">jwb71913</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

Leamus,<BR>
<BR>
Thank you kindly for the lesson in humility.  I regret I am unable to join you for tea, as I am limited to two outings  per month and must shop for comics and crayons with that time.  So I'll retire with my Nurse Ratchet fantasies and not antagonize you further.<BR>
<BR>
Sport
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1139">jwb71913</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

Oops sorry Leamas, did not intentionally misspell your name.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1315">growingpaynes</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

Check out "teenage love" and let me know what ya'll think<BR>
Thanks<BR>
Kimberley
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1120">Chances</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

Leamas - I suspect you told me that to shut me up. If someone has the creative urge to write five poems a night, why not? And where is the parallel between doing that and broad assertions you make?? Note that I am responding to the question you asked.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=487">bp</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

~good morning BK....
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

Teej; Honey you've become as pompas as Leamas. Lemas is missing his balls and you're wearing them now. Pull down your cammo skivves and take a look...ha Either that or you've got a hairball ...try coughing real hard.<BR>
<BR>
Leamus just because the whole bottle of viagra doesn't work for you doesn't give you the right to tell any of us how many poems or what kind or how to write. You are one sick puppy with what you've been posting since you've been here. You're about as credible as one dead battery. One ton happy pills might do the trick but I somehow doubt it.<BR>
<BR>
bk
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

bp; It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood! Top of the morning to you.<BR>
<BR>
bk
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

Leamas; Last thought here before I put you on Blender IGNORE<BR>
Go make your own LAME-ASS page and take your favorites with you. Either that or e-mail your name, stats and credit card application and we'll put you in "THE CLUB".<BR>
<BR>
bk
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1318">evil anibal</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

Hey everybody this is my first time on this site and i love it. Even submitted a couple poems my self called Unknown and FIXED.They are short and sweet.Check them out. Tell me what you think.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1103">ladyinwaiting</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

hehe  :)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1296">Julie Gianni</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

Mark, I'm so relieved you're back. Injun Joe...lol... Email me; you know I've been waiting.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=909">leamas</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

BK<BR>
Of course you would put me on Blender Ignore.  That is the tell tale sign of the weak.  Hit and run.  You know what, I really don't care.  You were trashing me when I didn't even make any comments for the last month, and when I finally admit that perhaps I was being a bit too harsh, you hit and run.  Nice.  Evidently the "passiveness" that you have talked about in the past, the understanding and constructive persona that you portrayed was all a hoax.  Well done.  I could thrash and wail on your specific works, which I have yet to do, but I chose not to.  As far as my works go, I wouldn't expect you to appreciate them, let alone understand them.  They are deeper than your run of the mill, carbon copied, prescribed nonesense (clever play on a word, "nonesense" vs. nonsense...god I'm funny).  You are not much unlike the auther Mary Higgins Clark.  She is read by millions, she puts out books in droves, and the unintelligent swear that she is one of the greatest authors of our time.  What they don't realize is this.  One is the same as the other.  Sure there is a slighlty different story line every novel, but they all turn out the same.  The characters always end up in the same spot at the end of the book (or climax-not that you (BK) would understand that concept, physically or metaphorically) to have some Perry Mason wannabe describe the whole story again only to capture the bad person (I would have said bad guy, but I invision you to be an undue, over acting womans activist).  They are all the same, and at no point does the book allow the reader to use their imagination, or heaven forbid lead them down the path of free thought (gasp!).<BR>
As far a TJ having balls or whatever you said, trailered by the reference that being affiliated with the military is somehow negative is flat out ridiculous and disrespectful.  If you want, sister, I could unleash on you my very descriptive opinion of you, your specific works, and your mindless minions that lick your unmentionables everytime you touch your keyboard.  I think that would be fun, and I think you know that, whether you admit it or not, I could make you question your poetic ability, and maybe make you feel a bit more self-conscious than you already are.<BR>
I'm game.<BR>
Chances, the same goes for you.  Just for the record I thought your sarcastic humor was funny.  I don't really care if you "shut up" or back off.  You should know if you've been around for a while I dig confrontation.  Ironic, isn't it, that the one time I admit that I can be too outspoken and opinionated I get attacked.  <BR>
The offer still stands.  I am willing to be nicer, but I would prefer, BK, the other option.<BR>
"Word to your mother."<BR>
Have a good day, and "hello" to those I like.  Misunderstood, you should write some more stuff, or at least say hi every now and then.<BR>
<BR>
This is really "good stuff"---LEAMAS.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">tj holland</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

Wow...I wish I had had time to finish my comment this morning. Instead I cut and pasted it and saved it to my desk top. Then I get back home and see that Leamas said a few things I had already typed. <BR>
So, I'll paste mine and submit it too...<BR>
<BR>
B.K. ~ I think there's a big difference between my displays of pompous-ness and yours.<BR>
<BR>
See, I don't attack people and call them names. You do. <BR>
<BR>
I don't feel that I am better than anyone, I simply have preferences, and have no problem speaking out loud. <BR>
Whereas I get the impression that you would like to be the hall monitor and check everyone for a pass. <BR>
<BR>
I know the difference between stating an opinion and allowing others to do so as well. You seem to get upset when people state their opinions and so you jump all over them to try and shut them up. Usually it doesn't work, because you're sparring with people of pretty high intelligence. <BR>
** Have you noticed that people like Injun Joe, Leamas, Jimmy and all his guises, Sushi (if he's not Jimmy), jwb, and a few others are all obviously of relatively high intelligence? They can be silent 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=487">bp</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

~BK those remarks toward TJ were unnecessary and uncalled for, i feel that she has done more to bring some normalcy and good sense to this site with the exception possibly of Rennie L. and Kirk then the rest of us combine. i am willing to let your remarks of calling me a "coward and chicken shit" because you didn't like a poem i wrote slide,<BR>
but when you attack others that i consider friends i feel compelled to say something, that having been said i'll bid you a good nite at this early hour....  
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1131">indefensible sushi</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

As Voltaire SHOULD have said, "Si Leamas n'existait pas il PAS serait nécessaire de l'inventer." <BR>
<BR>
Extra credit for anyone who can translate.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1269">Injun Joe</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

UGH!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">tj holland</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

oh wow....<BR>
<BR>
I hit enter way too soon....wrote a great bunch of words...and then lost them all. <BR>
<BR>
Must be a sign. This whole thing isn't worth the effort! LOL!<BR>
<BR>
So basically....B.K. I don't think you understand how kind and gracious people have been in regard to you. Like Leamas, and many others I'm sure, I have deliberately chosen not to tell YOU what I think of you or what you write (or ask about the 'person' you write to), because I have a pretty good idea of your character traits and how low your self esteem and 'secure' levels might be. I believe in social conscience and responsibility, humanity, caring for others even though I don't know them, and all that. <BR>
<BR>
bp ~ You're a gentleman and a scholar, indeed.<BR>
<BR>
Peace Out<BR>
<BR>
-Teej
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=909">leamas</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

My 6 year old son wanted to type something on here so I told him he could.  BK, leave it alone, family is sacred.  He wants somebody to type something back to him.  OK:<BR>
i want to eat dinner.  hi my name is shawn. how are you? bye---SON OF LEAMAS.     <BR>
PS. hi bp & tj 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">tj holland</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

Hi Shawn-O!!!   Have a good dinner!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1139">jwb71913</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

hi shawn,  want to borrow my crayons?<BR>
<BR>
Jim
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1139">jwb71913</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

If there were no Leamas it would be necessary to invent him.........
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

Teej; Yeah yeah, spew all you want, grow a penis even, but you won't get any more intellect with it I asure you. Here's how it goes, I'm tired of all the backhanded insults and I for one am straight up gonna tell you that. I'm not the one with IQ envy you are. I've hung out with the best of them and they all put their pants on the same way you do. I am not impressed. The people that I like best in all walks of life are the ones that are REAL, not the phoney baloneys who come into love sites and try to intimidate people with their pseudo intellectualism (a term that Leamas likes to use a lot) All I was saying is that you're getting as pseudo as he is..ha GET REAL AGAIN, you don't need all that garbage to be happy. Honey, who and what I write for is none of your bees wax. We all have our little insecurities but mine don't hang here like molten lead the way yours and Leamases do. Learn to float like a butterfly, it's a beautiful world out there. But maybe not with combat boots and a pole up your bushwacker licking ass. Jesus, I've been taking Sushi lessons...hahah Eithter that or hanging with Leamus far too much.<BR>
<BR>
bp, butt out its not your fight. You still need to go tell your poor internet girlfriend the truth that you are a married man thats got a sick wife, that you have no intentions of leaving and are happy with and see if she really loves you. Another sick puppy (The truth will set your free) (speaking of insecure geeze)<BR>
<BR>
Leams; I could give a rats patootie what you think about anything. I've seen bums on the street that are more impressive. One that comes to mind looked just like Jesus Christ with the watery eyes and I bet he could have even held up his hands and they would have bled red. <BR>
Now that scared me, but you don't and I won't cowtow to you or anyone on this site. So BUGGER OFF YOU BIG BALONEY!<BR>
<BR>
bk
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1139">jwb71913</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

B.K.,<BR>
<BR>
I thought I had issues.  Thanks for sharing.  Jim
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

Kirk; To you and the rest of the blenderites I do appologize and promise I am finished with this episode. <BR>
<BR>
bk 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1131">indefensible sushi</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

Um...not quite. Correct translation: If there were no Leamas it would NOT be necessary to invent him. Good try, amigo/a. Please play again. <BR>
<BR>
And thank you, Teej. My IQ was measured at 163 the last time I checked. IQ tests can be bullshit, though; it's probably higher. Now, on to the burning question of the day: Is B.K. a sometimes careless name-caller? Of course. Her outspoken nature is integral to her charm. But she's basically a straight-shooter and, from my vantage point, anyway, she's only mean to people who deserve it. In this servile day and age, aligning oneself with the powerful (i.e., our idiot president) and the status quo (his idiotic wars) is the easiest thing in the world to do - and the least painful. So kudos to the dissenters among us. They're the REAL heroes.<BR>
<BR>
See, there have always been those who just CAN'T STAND to see harmony and people playing nice at this site - and our Leamas is one of 'em. One of many. I just imagine B.K. to be a rather loud Southern gal who speaks her mind - and there are far worse things than that. <BR>
<BR>
But I'm not gonna scream anymore about giving peace a chance or ask why we can't all get along. Nobody ever will and we just won't. And that's that. Petty squables like this illustrate why the human race more or less sucks.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=487">bp</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

BK you're right i'll butt out only because its not worth getting into a piss fight with a skunk....there's no winner.<BR>
<BR>
bp
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1139">jwb71913</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

Sure beats TV for mindless entertainment
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

Sush; Acutually, I'm a marshmallow that let's it slide until you have pushed me too far, and then I do get loud and worse, DUCK, I'm likely to throw something at your head.<BR>
<BR>
bk
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1269">Injun Joe</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

Ugh...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">tj holland</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

Ah yes, I love it when my point is proven right before our very eyes.  Outstanding. <BR>
<BR>
Now, on to important things...<BR>
<BR>
<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

Teej; Your point is on top of your head and the cap reads DUNCE.....Or maybe a funny kitchen funnel for your POINTS to fly out.<BR>
<BR>
bk
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1317">Thoughtfull</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

Wow...<BR>
I am new to this site and comment board, but semi-scrolled through to see what sort of talk goes on outside of submitting a poem.<BR>
Do y'all usually just fight amongst each other?<BR>
It just seems like an extra harsh world and from an outsider's view, I am a little scared.<BR>
<BR>
Pax Blendera?<BR>
<BR>
T
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">tj holland</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

Something important....<BR>
<BR>
Because bp is too much of a gentleman to justly defend himself about this, I will set the record straight...it just so happens that bp's poem, which BK savagely attacked, was not a poem about his real life. Oooh! Shocker? Not really. Most people who understand poetry in it's many forms do understand that not all poetry is egocentric. (ie: poets DO actually write in the first person about things that have never happened to them or they've never experienced). So, BK brutally jumped on bp some time ago, tore him to shreds, and said a whole bunch of nasty things because she felt the what bp was "doing" was wrong. She jumped the gun, and made assumptions and she was very, very wrong; saying some very hurtful things. (if she had any CLUE about bp's relationship with his wife, she'd feel pretty ashamed right now. bp truly is a gentleman.) She's done it before to others. Once she went on a huge tirade about a comment that was posted on the board, said a bunch of horrible things to the person who posted it, and it turns out that she MISREAD the comment. She hadn't taken the time to read it and assimilate the meaning. It wasn't even a confusing comment, it just seemed that BK wanted something to beat up that day too. She totally went off about it when that person didn't mean any thing BK was accusing them of. This has happened all too often. A graceful southern lady, for sure. If I ever get the over riding urge to go down south to see the sweet, genteel people there, remind me to stay in the Pacific Northwest.<BR>
<BR>
Now...I do have a life that I must be getting back to this fine evening. <BR>
<BR>
Deepest Peace.<BR>
<BR>
-Teej
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=17">deevaa</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

oh I would join in, but damnit I've forgotten whose side I'm on!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">tj holland</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

Thoughtful ~ Sometimes. Not always. Humans will always be humans. Where people collect, there will be conflict. No biggie. What you are reading here on the board actually started out with something totally not related. And it had nothing to do with BK. She just thought she should say stuff. So it turned into an argument. We're pretty used to it. <BR>
<BR>
Just write and comment when you feel like it. You'll be safe here. There's lots of people here who will be sure that the biting dogs are put down one way or another. <BR>
<BR>
Besides, I've been laughing my ass off reading this stuff. And having a great time commenting. I don't take it personally or internalize it. I've spent many years in corrections. If getting called names made me cry, or doubt who I am, I'd have crumbled long ago. Inmates are far scarier than BK will ever be. LOL! So is this stuff insulting to me? My God, look at the source!It's comedy. It's the 'net. It's not real life. <BR>
<BR>
Peace.<BR>
<BR>
-Teej
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=909">leamas</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

163, I doubt that.  That puts you at one tenth of one percent of the people that score above average on the IQ scale.  Did you take your IQ test on the internet?  More than likely.  So you are part of Mensa (sp?).  Right.<BR>
<BR>
BK,<BR>
Let me preface by saying that there will be run on sentences because I want to see how fast I can flail on you.<BR>
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Here's what I am thinking: You are an overweight housewife who's miserable marriage has driven her deep into the world of the internet where (gasp) she types the word "love" into her search engine in a feeble attempt to find something that she was saddly missing (gasp).  Low and behold she finds (tadda) the Love Blender.  You sign up to write pathetic poetry because you were excited about the blender board because you realized that you could have "friends" without them really knowing who you were or what you were about.  You choose the name BK because 1. It is your place of employment, and 2. That is were you tend to meet with your real love...food.  You write and write and write until yippie someone notices your work.  You begin to kiss some ass, continue processing poetry like some third world sweat shop until one day Kirk graciously places you on the front page.  Oh glorious day.  Now that you realize that you are "made" you begin to feel as though you have some form of seniority and clout on the love blender and that since you have put out more work than everyone else combined you have the sovereign right to dictate who says what and to whom. (gasp).  Then one day an author writes a poem, not an autobiography, and it offends you.  It reminds you how your husband left you and it made you soooooo mad.  Who has the right to author a ficticious piece that you feel so strongly against?  Then there comes an author, admitting that he needs to work on his poetry, but is shocked by the ridiculous cliques that plagued this site.  He is brazen, shocking (mighty handsome and quite brilliant, that person being me) and he offends you and your cronnies.  Next thing you know other people see things the way he does and look at the time, you've lost quite a bit of ground.  Not so popular anymore.  Old, fat, alone, unskilled, angry, and quite unintelligent you find yourself scrapping for some sense of dignity.  Which my dear, you have lost.<BR>
NOW THAT WAS GOOD STUFF----and all in four minutes.  Thank you, no applause necessary.--LEAMAS
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=222">poyen_fpy</a><BR>
Date: 10 August 2003<P>

the best are often the ones who are humble because they don't have to prove anything. lashing out harsh criticism is really just a defense-mechanism for our own insecurity. <BR>
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i think writing poetry is better. 
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