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Pelosi
Posted by: petersz (69.181.22.---)
Date: June 17, 2022 07:47PM

Pelosi

5 My congresswoman
7 Today is telling us to
5 Shut up for peace now


Re: Pelosi
Posted by: les712 (68.185.64.---)
Date: June 17, 2022 08:27PM

one thing to recall:
power currupts all who serve,
even best of breed


Les

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/17/2009 08:28PM by les712.


Re: Pelosi
Posted by: hpesoj (69.116.241.---)
Date: June 17, 2022 10:34PM

Are you saying that
The best of breed winner is
Nancy Pelosi?


Re: Pelosi
Posted by: petersz (69.181.22.---)
Date: June 17, 2022 10:54PM

ugh...I hope she ain't.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/18/2009 01:53PM by petersz.


Re: Pelosi
Posted by: les712 (68.185.64.---)
Date: June 18, 2022 04:27AM

Not at all Joseph,my intent was that it doesn't matter who serves, someone will be dissatisfied with their reign.

ugh...I hope he ain't.


it ain't a haiku
but ii is a fact of life
power corrupts all

Les


Re: Pelosi
Posted by: hpesoj (69.116.241.---)
Date: June 18, 2022 07:05PM

Les:

The question above
Was rhetorical, made to
Fit the haiku rules.


Re: Pelosi
Posted by: les712 (68.185.64.---)
Date: June 18, 2022 07:24PM

answer to your quest
my post is surely a jest;
D.C.'s never best


Les


Re: Pelosi
Posted by: Merc (75.211.55.---)
Date: June 18, 2022 10:42PM

No poetry is
Capable of using that
Congresswoman's name

I love it when she talks slow so those as stupid as she is can understand her. if I were in a press conference, I'd ask her questions in the same...... slow..... seperated..... speach......she...... uses...... for......explaination.... or..... emphsis.


Re: Pelosi
Posted by: petersz (69.181.22.---)
Date: June 19, 2022 12:09AM

She really does think that if us peaceniks would shut up the warmongers would stop doing those naughty things. Just give 'em some more money and it'll all go away.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/19/2009 12:09AM by petersz.


Re: Pelosi
Posted by: Merc (70.210.211.---)
Date: June 20, 2022 05:48PM

Another press conference thing. William Buckley was once asked what he would do if he were attending a speech by anyone who used the "word" downplay, he replied, "I would upget and outwalk."


Re: Pelosi
Posted by: hpesoj (69.116.241.---)
Date: June 21, 2022 09:02AM

Upget and Outwalk
Leave the auditorium.
Way too much downplay

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/23/2009 07:59AM by hpesoj.


Re: Pelosi
Posted by: les712 (68.185.64.---)
Date: June 21, 2022 12:05PM

downplay is something
up with which we cannot put
congress something else


Re: Pelosi
Posted by: Merc (75.208.42.---)
Date: June 21, 2022 03:26PM

slightly different subject

ending sentences with prepositions

What did you bring that book that I don't want to be read to out of up for?

Nancy Plo'si will
Never end a sentence with
Heavenly silence.


Re: Pelosi
Posted by: petersz (69.181.22.---)
Date: June 21, 2022 03:31PM

Les, Joe, Merc, et al:

I love language. I also am amused with those kinds of language various people, sometimes yours truely [misspelling], can't put up with...for some its inovation [typo]...for some its ungrammaticality...for some its long words...for some its profanity. These boundaries are just that: boundaries, and I guess ol ov us need boundaries, stil [typo], they are also demarcations of our own limitations, and those limitations vary with mood and situation and historical context. Some this Churchill was stuffy as well as funny; some think he was simply uninformaed [typo] about the history of his own language. A lot can be learned from examining one's boundaries and limitations instead of just defending them.

In my role as poet anything goes in composition. In my role as critic, only what works counts [sometimes]. When I read an author I have two conflicting working premises: the author has to know everything she/he says and the author cannot know everything she/he means. But it helps to be informed of both what has been said and written and what is being said and written, so you and I don't get too pedantic and don't shut ourselves off from our audiences by appearing ignorant in different ways from how we are [ignorant].
That is, I practice descriptive linguistics instead of prescriptive linguistics.

amo,

Peter

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/21/2009 03:38PM by petersz.


Re: Pelosi
Posted by: les712 (68.185.64.---)
Date: June 21, 2022 04:15PM

Peter, one of the neat things about participating in this forum is the interaction of the readers and the varied takes people have on a written piece.


Re: Pelosi
Posted by: petersz (69.181.22.---)
Date: June 21, 2022 08:08PM

I'll drink to that.


Re: Pelosi
Posted by: Merc (75.211.83.---)
Date: June 21, 2022 08:22PM

Rekon ah gotta 'low thet ewe ore the exspurt on language. Me,, why I onliest get by wit folks what speak cowboy fluentlike.

Peter, could you explain "passive voice" to me so a physisississt could understand it?

I asked an attorney to explain "agrivated assult" once by telling him that when I assulted someone I was usually agrivated.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/21/2009 08:23PM by Merc.


Re: Pelosi
Posted by: petersz (69.181.22.---)
Date: June 22, 2022 12:43AM

Isn't that the voice of the people when they are demanding an end to the war?


Re: Pelosi
Posted by: les712 (68.185.64.---)
Date: June 22, 2022 04:08PM

Active voice:

The government screws the people.


Passive voice:

The people are screwed by the banks.


Transitive voice:

The people are screwed by Marilyn Manson.


Re: Pelosi
Posted by: petersz (69.181.22.---)
Date: June 22, 2022 06:26PM

Reflexive voice:

The people screw themselves by trusting the government and the banks.


Re: Pelosi
Posted by: lifeisbutadream (94.249.9.---)
Date: June 22, 2022 06:38PM

What is in a name?
Makes little difference to me.
It's impact of acts!

K.Q.


Re: Pelosi
Posted by: petersz (69.181.22.---)
Date: June 22, 2022 07:23PM

aiy, my friend...impacts, as in she got through the U.S. Congress all that money to kill Iraq's poor people.

Thanks for stopping by,

Peter


Re: Pelosi
Posted by: Merc (75.208.227.---)
Date: June 23, 2022 02:32PM

thoughtful voice: We should have left Iraq alone and let Sodamn Insane kill hundreds of thousands more than we have killed. Have to admire efficency.


Re: Pelosi
Posted by: Mr. P (24.20.36.---)
Date: June 23, 2022 08:44PM

Realistic voice: If you twats would stop arguing like fucking children you could move toward a solution. By your feelings are worth more than the lives of millions, I must remember.


Re: Pelosi
Posted by: petersz (69.181.22.---)
Date: June 23, 2022 11:34PM

This item began when I wrote a thought in my journal:



My congresswoman today is telling us to shut up for peace now

--after reading that Pelosi was about to push through the war bill for Obama.

I just disguised it as a poem and noticed I could pretend it had a 5-7-5 syllable structure. Then I remembered that Merc hates haiku and loves anti-war poems...so I posted it hoping to get a little rise out of him. For me, the thing has outlived its usefulness. It did remind me that I am no longer a school teacher when I realized I didn't care too much that I couldn't explain sensibly what the passive voice is and couldn't even find a grammar in my stacks of books. Oh, well, onward and upward, P. don't take yourself so fucking seriously.

amo,


Peter


Re: Pelosi
Posted by: Mr. P (24.20.36.---)
Date: June 24, 2022 12:18AM

Would I be laughing right now if I took myself too seriously?




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