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Humblest apologies for my breach of forum etiquette. I am not sure what Ad Hominem means but am afraid it's an offense I may have committed.
I will be more judicious about my posts in the future and will try to be less retaliatory.
Well Porky  , that it's appears to be spelled correctly. Hopefully not likely to forget that it's means it is now. A. has a 'cow-orker' who used to be dead-certain it was the other way. That admittedly rather caustic reply post somehow left me the impression that our consonant-heavy linguistic expert suspected you of being a sock puppet. Perhaps it was about some earlier posts.
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actually it was this that the word google already has it's own dictionary definition. from the original post, and the sock-puppet business was aimed at themilum.
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It's own dictionary. It still confuses me. Is it's wrong here or is it's right? Aramis says right but.....
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> that the word google already has it's own dictionary definition. it's = wrong Aramis was saying that the it's of I am not sure what Ad Hominem means but am afraid it's an offense I may have committed. is correct. which it is.
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That's it, I sort of had it right in my head, but this discussion made me doubt again. Thanks!
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HA! "The Shooting of Dan McGrew". is a real jolly Tale! I found a luxury page, really love it! This is what we call a " smartlap", :a " dishcloth of woe". (from the idea you need alarge piece of cloth to wipe your tears) Dangerous Dan McGrew it says and the Dirty one is the mystery man who plays the piano "with his talon hands".
"Were you ever out in the Great Alone, when the moon was awful clear"?------- I guess all of you know this one very well, but I'll give the page anyway: Dan McGrew.
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Helpful as it is, though, Moody’s book is sometimes more Felix than Oscar: it’s dense, meticulous (except for the author’s dismaying habit of forming the plural of a proper name by adding an apostrophe before the ‘s.’), formidably well researched and, in the first half especially, a little dull.
Charles McGarth reviewing A. David Moody's new biography on Ezra Pound, Il Miglior Fabbro. New York Times, January 27, 2008.
See Porcupine: Even professional writers (and their editors!) let slip the occasional misplaced apostrophe. Welcome to AWADtalk.
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Dangerous Dan is fine but my favorite is that night on the marge of Lake Labarge I creamated Sam McGee. Especially if read aloud in truly lugubrious tones. McGee (Sorry, I can't figure out how to make a one word link.) Hey, it worked!! Ain't technology wonderful.
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Dangerous Dan is fine but my favorite is that night on the marge of Lake Labarge I creamated Sam McGee. Especially if read aloud in truly lugubrious tones. http://www.wordfocus.com/wordactcremation.html(Sorry, I can't figure out how to make a one word link.) {url=www.wherever.com/page.html}text{/url} using [] instead of {} Or either use that little clickey up on the left end of the icon bar at the top of the post window.
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At least I got one of them right. Whew.
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That's a blood curdling story too Zed. Bit on the long side, but speed slows down in the cold. At the same time I read with envious eyes about ice and snow up there in the North of the AmCan-continent. While we move from rain to rain via storm and storm. Maybe I should move quickly to the marge of Lake Labarge. (is that how you write creamated? Just like cream?) Ice cream? 
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Just for the record, I my comment was not meant as a complaint....the ubiquitous influence of technology....still a novel concept to me as I refuse to acknowledge having aged out of my twenties.
********Well put, Porc. At 78 rpm I'd like to go back and live it all over again but only if I could take my smarts with me
Thanks all for the warm welcome and gentle initiation.
******It was relatively gentle, too. Hang in there and I guarantee you will experience sessions much deeper in their vituperation and fulmination. Be expecially careful not to post a thread that could even remotely be construed as smacking of politics or religion
There is, however, one other board of this sort even more liberal but I cannot identify it for reasons of protocol and so if you could contact me otherwise, I am dalehileman@verizon.net
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Thanks, Dale.
I won't contact you outside of the forum, just because I prefer the safety of anonymity.
One cannot be too careful.
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Dangerous Dan is fine but my favorite is that night on the marge of Lake Labarge I creamated Sam McGee. Especially if read aloud in truly lugubrious tones.
McGee
(Sorry, I can't figure out how to make a one word link.)
Hey, it worked!! Ain't technology wonderful. Ah!it worked. As this is a threadful of cyberhash I get on where Sam McGee got smothered in cream.( you were kidding me, I really believed it.) The second hand book shop had a little survey of English poetry, which I could trade for two books I brought in. I never ask money but trade books. The poem of The Burning Babe caught my eye; just give you the first allineas. As I in hoary winter's night stood shivering in the snow,
Surprised I was with sudden heat which made my heart to glow;
And lifting up a fearful eye to vieuw what fire was near,
A pretty Babe all burning bright did in the air appear;
Who, scorchèd with excessive heat, such floods of tears did shed,
As though his floods should quench his flames which with his tears were fed.
'Alas!'quoth he, 'but newly born in fiery heats I fry,
Yet none appraoch to warm their hearts or feel my fire but I.By Robert Southwell, (1561-95) (it runs on and turns out to be symbolic for the birth of Christ, but till the near end I wondered what horror story this was)
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Whew--that is pretty awful.
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Thanks, Dale.
I won't contact you outside of the forum, just because I prefer the safety of anonymity.
One cannot be too careful. Hi Porc: Yes that's what I used to think, but the as I began revealing my address I was astounded to find my Inbox no fuller than usual while I still get only two or three Spam per day Nonetheless I can well understand your concern
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Speaking of Google, they're celebrating New Year today.
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Speaking of Google, they're celebrating New Year today. rats! mantled again. [see Info & announcments]
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Were your shoulders getting cold? (Hi, eta!)
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Two threads. That'll give a real rat race.
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Were your shoulders getting cold? (Hi, eta!) Maybe not yesterday, but today they would have been without my generous gift of the mantle of permanence.
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11111! That's 666 x 16.6831831...!!!
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a bawdy recitation of the famous Srvice poem "The Shooting of Dirty Dan McGrew". A short jump back to the subject of ballads that make nerves wreck and tears flow.Turn-of-the-century genre that was all around and subjects depending on region. Saloon-bar and mines for America , frozen deserts for Canada and shipwreck-and-drowning subjects for our waterland. We had two great classics. One about the old mother in the fisherman's hut, wind howling, flickering lamplight and souls swallowed by the waves.Husbands and sons never to return. One about a father who proudly had made a little sailing boat from a wooden shoe and the following tragedy of the drowing of his little boy. To be recited with exageration. (On parties and if you wanted to vex the recitation teacher).
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