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$Zero

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Dec 24, 2007, 6:31:37 AM12/24/07
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this essay space used to be blank

but now it's not.

it's the power of suggestions at work.

some thoughts your accept, others you reject.

writers write.

(and the blank essay spaces disappear).


-$Zero...

Christmas Rant (avert your eyes)
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/662f81ce42d9d10b

$Zero

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Dec 24, 2007, 6:37:04 AM12/24/07
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writers write, editors edit.

(was: Re: this essay space used to be blank)

On Dec 24, 6:31�am, "$Zero" <zeroi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> this essay space used to be blank
>
> but now it's not.
>
> it's the power of suggestions at work.
>
> some thoughts your accept, others you reject.

"you", not "your".


> writers write.

editors edit.


> (and the blank essay spaces disappear).


-$Zero...

this essay space used to be blank
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/9c3ef93fd631fc4c

$Zero

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Dec 24, 2007, 6:49:05 AM12/24/07
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writers write, editors edit, publishers publish.

(was: Re: writers write, editors edit.)

On Dec 24, 6:37�am, "$Zero" <zeroi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> writers write, editors edit.
>
> (was: Re: this essay space used to be blank)
>
> On Dec 24, 6:31 am, "$Zero" <zeroi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > this essay space used to be blank
>
> > but now it's not.
>
> > it's the power of suggestions at work.
>
> > some thoughts your accept, others you reject.
>
> "you", not "your".
>
> > writers write.
>
> editors edit.
>
> > (and the blank essay spaces disappear).

writers write

editors edit

publishers publish

readers read

and advertisers advertise.

-$Zero...

writers write, editors edit.
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/fabdbe5b6a9e04b2

$Zero

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Dec 24, 2007, 7:00:56 AM12/24/07
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bloggers blog

(was: Re: writers write, editors edit, publishers publish.)

[...]

(was: this essay space used to be blank)


On Dec 24, 6:49 am, "$Zero" <zeroi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 24, 6:37�am, "$Zero" <zeroi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Dec 24, 6:31 am, "$Zero" <zeroi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > this essay space used to be blank
>
> > > but now it's not.
>
> > > it's the power of suggestions at work.
>
> > > some thoughts your accept, others you reject.
>
> > "you", not "your".
>
> > > writers write.
>
> > editors edit.
>
> > > (and the blank essay spaces disappear).
>
>   writers write
>
>   editors edit
>
>   publishers publish
>
>   readers read
>
> and advertisers advertise.

bloggers blog.

poets...

um...

poets starve.


-$Zero...

advertisers advertise
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/8706418449e5cfbe

$Zero

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Dec 24, 2007, 7:26:53 AM12/24/07
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poet's starve

this essay space used to be blank

but now it's not.

it's the power of suggestions at work.

some thoughts you accept, others you reject.

writers write.

(and the blank essay spaces disappear).


...


writers write

editors edit

publishers publish

readers read

(some thoughts you accept, others you reject)

and advertisers advertise


...


bloggers blog


...


poets... um...


poets starve.


and journalists lie.


youtubers verify.


(until the editors edit).


meanwhile...

the laughers laugh.

and the criers cry.

the staffers staff.

and the buyers buy.

but the poet's starve
is far more delicious
than the carver's carve.

(until the poets lie like the journalists).


-$Zero...

bloggers blog (poet's starve)
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/bfe4a57f36935c7b

Ultraviolet

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Dec 24, 2007, 12:31:37 PM12/24/07
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Words are flying out like endless rain into a paper cup when "$Zero"
<zero...@gmail.com> wrote:

> poet's starve

<>

Where angles fear to tread.


--
UV
http://paula-light.blogspot.com

boots

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Dec 25, 2007, 8:21:38 AM12/25/07
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Ultraviolet <viol...@newsguy.com> wrote:

>Words are flying out like endless rain into a paper cup when "$Zero"
><zero...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> poet's starve
>
><>
>
>Where angles fear to tread.

You did that on porpoise didntcha.

--
just write it

Ultraviolet

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Dec 25, 2007, 8:59:33 AM12/25/07
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It's only words, but words are all boots <n...@no.no> has to take your
heart away:


I'm just happy that someone noticed.


--
UV
http://paula-light.blogspot.com

boots

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Dec 25, 2007, 9:47:00 AM12/25/07
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Ultraviolet <viol...@newsguy.com> wrote:

Hound seen it too no doubt.

--
just write it

Beamer

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Dec 25, 2007, 11:18:07 AM12/25/07
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On Dec 25, 6:47 am, boots <n...@no.no> wrote:

> Ultraviolet <viole...@newsguy.com> wrote:
> >It's only words, but words are all boots <n...@no.no> has to take your
> >heart away:
>
> >> Ultraviolet <viole...@newsguy.com> wrote:
>
> >>>Words are flying out like endless rain into a paper cup when "$Zero"
> >>><zeroi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>>> poet's starve
>
> >>><>
>
> >>>Where angles fear to tread.
>
> >> You did that on porpoise didntcha.
>
> >I'm just happy that someone noticed.
>
> Hound seen it too no doubt.
>
> --
> just write it

" Hound seen it too no doubt."

Que?

Maybe I need some more early morning Christmas Eggnog ....

Beamer

Ultraviolet

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Dec 25, 2007, 12:13:30 PM12/25/07
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It's only words, but words are all Beamer <bmw...@lycos.com> has to
take your heart away:

<>

> " Hound seen it too no doubt."
>
> Que?


Some kind of inside joke before my time. No one will 'splain cuz
they're MEAN.


> Maybe I need some more early morning Christmas Eggnog ....


They have Baileys mini bottles now. Just thought I'd throw that in.


--
UV
http://paula-light.blogspot.com

Alan Hope

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Dec 25, 2007, 12:58:57 PM12/25/07
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Ultraviolet goes:

>It's only words, but words are all Beamer <bmw...@lycos.com> has to
>take your heart away:

><>

>> " Hound seen it too no doubt."

>> Que?

>Some kind of inside joke before my time. No one will 'splain cuz
>they're MEAN.

Hound's Law, names after a poster of the same eponymous appellation,
sometimes known as Zen's Law (by Zen) or Skitt's Law: any spelling or
grammar lame post will itself contain an egregious spelling or grammar
mistake.

>> Maybe I need some more early morning Christmas Eggnog ....

>They have Baileys mini bottles now. Just thought I'd throw that in.

I think you meant to say "throw that up".


--
AH
http://grapes2dot0.blogspot.com


Bill Penrose

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Dec 25, 2007, 1:22:43 PM12/25/07
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On Dec 25, 10:13 am, Ultraviolet <viole...@newsguy.com> wrote:
> They have Baileys mini bottles now. Just thought I'd throw that in.

Be careful of those. DO NOT crunch the bottles in your teeth. You may
cut the inside of your mouth. Carefully remove the cap and remove
contents through the opening.

Dangerous Bill

Ultraviolet

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Dec 25, 2007, 1:30:34 PM12/25/07
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It's only words, but words are all Alan Hope
<usenet....@gmail.com> has to take your heart away:

<>

> Hound's Law, names after a poster of the same eponymous
> appellation, sometimes known as Zen's Law (by Zen) or Skitt's Law:
> any spelling or grammar lame post will itself contain an egregious
> spelling or grammar mistake.


Much obliged.

FWIW, I did angles on poipose. See, an apostrophe is curved and . . .
nevermind.


--
UV
http://paula-light.blogspot.com

Ultraviolet

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Dec 25, 2007, 2:29:44 PM12/25/07
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It's only words, but words are all Bill Penrose <pen...@iit.edu> has
to take your heart away:

> On Dec 25, 10:13 am, Ultraviolet <viole...@newsguy.com> wrote:


Now you tell me. Ow.


--
UV
http://paula-light.blogspot.com

Towse

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Dec 25, 2007, 11:03:33 PM12/25/07
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Alan Hope wrote:
> Ultraviolet goes:
>
>> It's only words, but words are all Beamer <bmw...@lycos.com> has to
>> take your heart away:
>
>> <>
>
>>> " Hound seen it too no doubt."
>
>>> Que?
>
>> Some kind of inside joke before my time. No one will 'splain cuz
>> they're MEAN.
>
> Hound's Law, names after a poster of the same eponymous appellation,
> sometimes known as Zen's Law (by Zen) or Skitt's Law: any spelling or
> grammar lame post will itself contain an egregious spelling or grammar
> mistake.

Back in the Days of Long Ago in the bucolic country known as
Miscwriting, during the First Half of the Month of October in the year
of our making known as 1995, the Hound of Cullen had the temerity to
correct a post made by the Pedantic Woman.

The Pedantic Woman responded:
<http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/196fcc74c147b186>

Hound responded to her response and added, "Isn't there a law nature
stating that a post correcting someone _must contain a mistake?":
<http://google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/fc87dce6b7cf5f3b>

And so Thereafter from that Day Forth in the Land of Miscwriting
Certains of the Peoples called the Law of Nature aforesaid mentioned
"Hound's Law" and the Others noted and said it was Good and Worth Doing.
And So it Was. And So it Is Done.

--
Sal

Ye olde swarm of links: thousands of links for writers, researchers and
the terminally curious <http://writers.internet-resources.com>

Bill Penrose

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Dec 25, 2007, 11:06:37 PM12/25/07
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On Dec 25, 8:03 pm, Towse <s...@towse.com> wrote:
> And So it Was. And So it Is Done.

Glad you could clear that up.

DB

Towse

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Dec 25, 2007, 11:07:48 PM12/25/07
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Ultraviolet wrote:

> FWIW, I did angles on poipose. See, an apostrophe is curved and . . .
> nevermind.

FWIW, I'd assumed you had.

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