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Article #60539

Re: Poetry Telephone Master list and CC&R's

#60539
From: "Horatio"
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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