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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: The Ashtroll / gjd
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2025 10:06:34 +0000
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Ash Wurthing wrote:

> On Sunday, June 26, 2022 at 1:00:21 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
>> Rocky Rhodan wrote:
>>
>>> George J. Dance wrote:
>>>> On 2022-06-09 12:19 a.m., W.Dockery wrote:
>>>>> Rocky Stoneberg wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> George J. Dance wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 2022-06-07 7:51 p.m., W.Dockery wrote:
>>>>>>>> Rocky Stoneberg wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> George J. Dance wrote:
>
>>>>>>>>>> A wannabe poet named Ash
>>>>>>>>>> Thought writing could bring in some cash;
>>>>>>>>>> But all of his verses
>>>>>>>>>> Brought him only curses,
>>>>>>>>>> And all of it went in the trash.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> gjd
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Outstanding work in the limerick form...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Even PJR might approve.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 🙂
>>>>>
>>>>>>> PJ Ross has actually commented on it:
>>>>>>> 'Close, but no cigar. Forced stress on "him".'
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Both this and the "Bobby Burro" limerick were ones I wrote earlier in
>>>>>>> the year, in threads where they're effectively lost to posterity. So
>>>>>>> I decided to top-post them so they'd be easier to find.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Peter is always a tough critic, I daresay....
>>>>>
>>>>> But when he gets serious, PJR does post some instructional thoughts.
>>
>>>> He was always worth listening to. But one doesn't have to agree with
>>>> *him*, and here I listened and then disagreed.
>>
>>>> It's not normal, but it's not unnatural (and therefore not forced) for a
>>>> person to stress "him" in such a context. Imagine, for example, pointing
>>>> to the person when you're saying it.
>>
>>
>>> I do miss Peter... he was grouchy but often funny....
>> It was amusing when he broke Michael Pendragon's heart, Pendragon
>> desperately wanted PJR to take him under his wing and my e mentor him.
>
> If you weren't

<Troll snip>

And so it goes.

🙂