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Re: Amen
Olaf, I think you're dead on in your sentiment. With all of his heartfelt attempt at sincerity though, he chose to be a public servant first and has to account for that. To quote Dave Matthews Band's ''Big eyed fish'': ''You see the little monkey sitting up in his monkey tree One day decided to climb down and run off to the city But ...
Posted to Frame Game by sockitmonkey on June 24, 2009
Trying too hard to make it naughty.
The key line in ''I would not have it grow on my chin'' is neither ''chin'' nor ''my'', it's ''grow''. If she emphasizes ''chin'', then she's implying she wants it to grow somewhere else... but wouldn't she already have that ''beard''? If not, then she's prepubescent, which introduces a creepy note that doesn't work with the sweetness and light ...
Posted to The Spectator by sugar_k on June 17, 2009
ABUSE WRITERS?
Who would of thunk it? My Freedom of Speech taken away by MSN. i could laugh...
Posted to The Spectator by RCH in TN on August 22, 2008
"jIH ghaj pagh latlh Daq jatlh"?
Just out of morbid curiosity, waltz: what does this Klingon phrase mean? (I'd ask D_deridex were his Warbird presently in orbit, but it's not.) It's definitely not General Chang's back-translation of ''To be or not to be...'' I loved the 1:08 video of Donald Duck reciting Hamlet. wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 29, 2008
Re: WE HAVE A WINNER!
NoStar:WR, I love that joke from ''The Undiscovered Country'' about reading Hamlet in the original Kilingon. I understand that Klingon like Hebrew either does not have or does not use the verb ''to be''. (In the case of Hebrew it is because it is integral to the name of God, so it is not used out of respect. But, I do not know why it is absent ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 27, 2008
Re: WE HAVE A WINNER!
A copy of SECRETS OF THE SONNETS: SHAKESPEARE'S CODE by Peter J. Jensen will soon be on its way to White Rabbit. Mr. Rabbit, would you like it signed by the author? NoStar Need you ask? Most gladly. Then I can resell it on eBay and recoup my purchases of several vintage Mattel Hot Birds. (Just kidding on the reselling bit -- but not on the ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 27, 2008
WE HAVE A WINNER!
It was almost like watching a horse race. MaryAnn had the field to herself, then Island Time took the lead. Out of nowhere, White Rabbit hopped ahead of everyone and won by a pink nose. The skinny on the sonnet: Over Memorial weekend, I took my boat to a family reunion campout. My cousin Sandy and her husband Peter J. Jensen stayed aboard my ...
Posted to Poems by NoStar on June 27, 2008
As for the contest...
The Contest: Explain who this sonnet is about and what is being anticipated. Oh. The sonnet is about Peter Jensen. What's being anticipated is the reading of his book about Shakespeare's use of codes, or the solutions to certain long-standing problems therein, or how they were solved -- or all of the above. Sorry, it's early in the morning, ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 27, 2008
An Old Fashion Fray Contest from an old forgotten frayster
Greetings to all who might remember me and to those who are saying ''who the hell is this guy.'' Without even thinking that it was mid-summer's night eve last night, I went to sleep thinking I should write a sonnet. (There is no time more enchanted for sonnet writing than June 20th.) I woke up at six and completed this sonnet in four hours. ...
Posted to Poems by NoStar on June 22, 2008
Did Shakespeare really write 'A Lover's Complaint'?
The answer is we will never know, in the same way that we will never know for certain which bits of Hamlet are by Shakespeare and which bits are actors' interpolations, or which bits of the Henry VI trilogy are by Shakespeare and which by another author. In any case, we are too picky when we need to be so particular about the very words of an ...
Posted to The Spectator by calyptorhynchus on June 15, 2008

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