From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=925">whisper</a><BR>
Date: 23 January 2004<P>

i heartily agree BK<BR>
misti -  "What is the Symbolism Behind Coffee and Wontons?"<BR>
simply splendid "george harrison re-incarnated" thats the man i want to be. 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 23 January 2004<P>

thanks muchly, B.K. and whisper!<BR>
I wish I were more like George Harrison...my ego is always fucking things up for me. And I can't play the guitar.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=8">Ali</a><BR>
Date: 23 January 2004<P>

Violet~<BR>
<BR>
*blush* Thanks so much girl!  I'm very glad that you liked, and your compilment definitely made my morning.  And yes, I do have an AOL IM name.  I will email or IM you (I think those things are in your proile for the Blender) and give you my name.  :)<BR>
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B.K.~<BR>
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You're too sweet, my dear!  Thank you ever so kindly for your compliment.  :)  I'm very happy that you liked that piece.  *smile*<BR>
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Love and undercover midnights, Ali
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 23 January 2004<P>

Misti; Being uniquely you is enough to be in any lifetime. Being like anyone else would only be an imitation and sweetie pie it's never to late to learn how to play the guitar even when you're 80 expanding your mind is always in.<BR>
<BR>
bk
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=35">Star of David</a><BR>
Date: 23 January 2004<P>

Coujeaux,<BR>
<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2004.01.23.02.21.12996">The Moment of Wobbly McGillis</a>  uplifting...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=16">kevin urenda</a><BR>
Date: 23 January 2004<P>

do we need ANY more proof of my incurable dorkishness?  I submitted the same damned poem twice?  Four days apart?  yeeeeeesh...  That'll learn me (what a doofus!!).<BR>
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<BR>
Heya Misti<BR>
<BR>
would you deem it safe to meet a dork? heh.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=23">Kirk</a><BR>
Date: 23 January 2004<P>

Kevin,<BR>
On the other hand, I find it a positive sign when there's evidence of people using methods other than the "pull up the loveblender new submissions window and start typing away, whatever comes to mind" method of poetic composition.  In general, I suspect more good poems are cut and paste into that window rather than composed there.<BR>
--Kirk
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=29">~Harem~</a><BR>
Date: 23 January 2004<P>

To Kevin Urenda;<BR>
<BR>
Curiosity got to me - when I read your flirtations<BR>
with Misti -  So I clicked on your name and read<BR>
several of your older submissions.<BR>
<BR>
I wound up looking at most of them -<BR>
And noticed that you rarely made the front page pick.<BR>
<BR>
I was surprised since your writing is very very good.<BR>
<BR>
Now I don't feel so bad - that I am not the only one<BR>
who rarely has ever made it to the front page.<BR>
<BR>
Your submissions are really amazing.<BR>
Writing seems to be something natural for you.<BR>
Congrats.<BR>
<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=16">kevin urenda</a><BR>
Date: 23 January 2004<P>

Kirk<BR>
<BR>
heh.  Good point.  I know that even when I compose directly on the keyboard it is always SOMEwhere offline...<BR>
<BR>
Harem~<BR>
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Thank you for those kind words.<BR>
If you go back toward 1998 you'll find I was around here a lot more, and therefore picked by the 'Keeper for the Front Page more as well.<BR>
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I don't feel as if I am flirting with Misti (we're both married, you know, and I hope she doesn't feel that way either), though - we're both old timers (although she's displayed her considerable talents here longer than I have), so we go 'back a ways.'  She has also lived in my home town for a while now, but we have never actually met.
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