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And we have feasted well on your kill.
I must say wow! I'm impressed. I knew there was talent on this board. In my head I couldn't picture how to do it so I tried it on a trash novel someone left on the train. You guys had much more success than I did.
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I remember doing something like this as an assignment in Grade 8 English class.
"A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?" JANE WAGNER
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Too long time no see, apples & oranges.And still, we can't view his profile. 
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Cor! do we have the Ghost of apples + oranges past with us?
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I just don’t get it. I am more of an angel than Angel,
I’m much more modest than Modestgodess,
and some say that I am almost as exclamatory as WOW.
But yet, on this board I get no respect.Maybe it’s time to let you people know that you are dealing with the #1 ranked Trident writer in the world. What is a Trident? A “Trident” is a form of poetry somewhat like the haiku of the Japanese, that was popular on the great Island nation of Atlantis before it sank into the sea. It is fairly simply to write a Trident in the language of the Alanticeans, they had no verbs, but to write one in English was long considered an impossibility, until I wrote my historic famous trident back in 1984. The sample below will help outline how a trident works... The mechanism of...our method of
.....................sex...reproduction
...seems tiresome...seems revolting but
......otherwise it is...most certainly not
.........................fun.Get it. The three prongs of the Trident- the left, the right, combine coherently in the middle for the third. The bottom center word (or sometimes words) conclude the poem at the handle with all three prongs sharing them equally but extra points are given for meanings that diverge. Scoring: The Atlanticeans had ten fingers and ten toes like us but only virile males were allowed to write poems so their counting system was constructed as a base Twenty-one. Five categories are scored. Points for each are 1 to 21. The categories are...Understanding the rules- Automatic 21 points.
Applying the rules- Automatic 21 points.
Smoothness of syntax- 1 -21 points.
cleverness of meaning- 1 -21 points.
originality- 1 -21 points.Example: the sample trident above scored 53 points. My World Record Poem scored 86. So boys, wanna play hardball? Wanna get down and dirty with some ditch fighting poetry? Huh? Ok! Now you pretty ladies be sweethearts and go sit in those folding chairs over there by the wall and maybe we'll let one of you be the prize. Let the games begin.
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Begging your pardon, but is it appropriate to call the handle of the trident a tine? If not, then your example is flawed, having the form of | |
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P.S. If it helps anybody's presentation - the commands [ pre ] and [ /pre ] but omit the spaces will permit spaces in text to be preserved in posts.
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...then your example is flawed -wofahulicodoc Flawed wofahulicodoc?, yes, don't tell, but sometimes I suspect that I am too.I agree, visually the poemform diagrams more like a two-pronged frog gig than a trident but most folk find it unpleasant to dwell on the bloody process of gigging a frog. Unless maybe you say it fast in french ~ fru ge'wah. But alas I know of but one other entity that has two prongs and that is my coon dog named WhitmanOneil (irony upon insult, our own WhitmanOneil has a collie dog named Milo, go figger.) but no matter, a two-pronged coon dog seems hardly a proper association for a genre of literary poems. On the other hand the point of the poemform is to have three semantical points like a trident. If we adopt your schema then the poem would have to have four points and then (sigh) we would have to call it a pitchfork. Thank you wofahulicodoc, for the instructions on how to affix things to certain points on a page. I will try it here for the first time to see if it works... _ \____/[/pre
[pre] /\ /\ WhitmanO'neil (the dog)
No No don't tell me. If I learn it on my own it will be a tool I can use for the rest of my life.
Thanks again, wofahulicodoc. - milo.
PS: What does "but omit the spaces" mean?
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milum, i am going to answer you question about preformated text in I & A, in the thread that covers a lot of these infrastucture type questions.
you can get a start by just looking in the FAQ-- i suggest you print it.. it total 4 sheets of paper.. and its so much easier to use as a reference!
(printing out Max's reference pages would be a lot more paper.)
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Look everyone. I can now affix letters in time and space.
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