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Article #60539Re: Poetry Telephone Master list and CC&R's
From: "Horatio"
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 17:51
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 17:51
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"Zinc" <zinc_o@honospamtmail.com> wrote in message news:Rsttb.1320$sb4.70@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net... > "Horatio" <qwerty_h@hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:Fvrtb.18545$Gj1.319@news02.roc.ny... > > > > "Michael Cook" <cook368NOSPAM@ameritech.net> wrote in message > > news:vrc11om0bu4ta3@news.supernews.com... > > > > > > "Horatio" <qwerty_h@hotmail.com> wrote in message > > > news:%Djtb.11713$691.5106@news01.roc.ny... > > > > OK > > > > > > > > As of now I have compiled a master list for the Poetry Telephone Game > > > which > > > > is: > > > > > > > > Colin (Ward) > > > > Crystal > > > > PJR > > > > Michael Cook > > > > Thomas Dillion > > > > Rik Roots > > > > michael (?) > > > > Dale Houstman > > > > Zinc > > > > Julie Carter > > > > sophie > > > > > > > > If your name is not on the list - - - You Are Not Playing This Time. > > > > (sorry) > > > > > > > > The list is already much larger than I expected. Here is how gameplay > > is > > > > anticipated: > > > > > > > > 1) I will send out an original poem to a member of the list. (The > > order > > > > may change at my discretion) > > > > > > > > 2) That member has 24 hours to re-write and return the message > > > > incorporating their own style, unique flair for language and meaning > but > > > > maintaining some aspect or relevance to the original. (any tenuous > > thread > > > > or inspiration is fine) > > > > > > > > *If you are not available to re-write in the next 24 hours but > would > > > > still like to play that is fine, return the message with a note and I > > will > > > > move you in the list. > > > > > > > > **If you have changed your mind and would no longer like to play > > > please > > > > simply return the message with a note and I shall remove you from the > > > list. > > > > > > > > 3) I will forward only the rewritten poem to the next player > (possibly > > > > randomly selected) who will receive the same ,mission should they > choose > > > to > > > > accept. > > > > > > > > 4) I will post the full chain in temporal order at the end of the > game > > > and > > > > possibly also as separate threads. > > > > > > > > 5) I am accepting any generous suggestions as to improvements to > > gameplay. > > > > > > > > 6) If you post with a "munged" address, please send me an e-mail at my > > > > address with a valid e-mail addy. > > > > > > > > Thanks for playing!! > > > > > > > > Have FUN!! > > > > > > > > -H > > > > > > > That's a Murders row! I don't see the name Horatio? > > > > I will be starting this round, so my poem is first. > > > > > > > Do try a set list, if I am to follow PJR I need renew my Library card > > > > sorry, I have already decided against that. > > > > > Preparation is important. > > > If Houstman I must practice Iyengar and learn Sanskrit > > > Bhujangasana assumed. > > > > yes, it is too bad Hammes didn't join, he would have made the perfect > > Housman follower, I think. > > Hey, I thought I was a day ahead of Dale! Now I see the Horatio scenario > (I'm taking up drinking again). Never mind, it's just as well I die by /his/ > sword (heh). Well, the list is just of participants, not order. I have already begun convoluting the order to suit my own nefarious purposes. ha ha ha Ha Ha HAH HAH HAH (koff) excuse me. -H > > > > > If any of the Ladies I find myself following, well > > > A complete review of Wordsworth, Coleridge, > > > Keats, Shelley, Whitman, Goethe, Tennyson and Wilde > > > Is in order. > > > Did I forget to mention Blake? > > > Piping down the valleys wild > > > Piping songs of pleasant glee > > > On a cloud I saw a child. > > > And he laughing said to me. > > > > > > Pipe a song about a Lamb: > > > So I piped with merry chear, > > > Piper pipe that song again -- > > > So I piped, he wept to hear. > > > ------ > > > Piper sit thee down and write > > > In a book that all may read -- > > > So he vanish'd from my sight, > > > And I pluck'd a hollow reed. > > > > > > Ok I'm ready > > > mdc > > > > you seem to have a handle on it. Your address is good, no? > > > > -H > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
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