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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Penny's Blog (s 1)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 00:13:07 +0000
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On Sun, 2 Feb 2025 0:59:58 +0000, George J. Dance wrote:

> On Sat, 1 Feb 2025 1:35:39 +0000, Will-Dockery wrote:
>
>>> George J. Dance wrote:
>>> On Wed, 29 Jan 2025 23:27:17 +0000, MummyChunk wrote:
>>>
>>>> George J. Dance wrote:
>>>> Penny's Blog (s 1)
>>>>
>>>> Penny likes to read poetry. She has a blog,
>>>> Penny's Poetry Blog, where she shares
>>>> poems she has read and enjoyed:
>>>> abandonment, Absence, Accompaniment, Accueil,
>>>> Acorns, Adam's Curse, Adlestrop, Advent,
>>>> Advent of Today, Advice to a Buttefly,
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2025/01/pennys-blog-s-1.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Do you know Penny?  Not a name you hear so often.  I remember Penny from
>>>> Lost.
>>>
>>> Sorry, but, no, Penny's just a fictional character I made up. She's my
>>> blog's virtual editor.
>>>
>
>> If my memory serves me well, Penny replaced Betty, correct?
>
> Yes, that's correct. You originally came up with Betty for me, and that
> was a perfect name (very generic); but eventually we wanted to write a
> similar poem, and couldn't both use Betty for it. In addition, I was
> getting flak from some other troll who'd claimed it infringed on his
> copyright; so I just ended up changing the name. The blog stil has
> "betty" in the urls:
>
> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/

I remember discussing making a video with Sandy Madaris as Betty.


That was back when I was trying to get the Country Woman dong put
together, which unfortunately I never managed to do.