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Subject:Re: Administrivia Friday Poem Fest
From:Neil2
Date:Sat, 20 Dec 2008 09:47:43 -0800

Here, here!  Bravo man!

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Stephen Steele <steeles@horizonview.net>wrote:

> Freeform:
> Jim quits.
> Now what.
> Will the inmates rule?
>
> The Limerick:
> Whether Coyote, Tom C. or Jim
> the talk is always about "him".
> We all love the Van.
> No matter the Man.
> Now, I thinks it's all about trim.
> OR
> There once was a Man named Arnott
> The No Van posts and trim he fought,
> The flame wars he'll review,
> And subscriptions renew.
> But  Moderate, he thinks NOT!
>
>
>
> The Haiku(rhymed):
> Friday is now here.
> NVC is now less clear.
> How can the Man steer?
>
> The Haiku(traditional, unrhymed):
> "I quit", says Jim A.
> "Your work is valued", say we.
> Says he, "I'll do flames".
>
> The English Sonnet: (With apologies to Bill S and his Sonnet No. 116)
> Let us not to non-Vanagon opine
> Admit digressions, love is not love
> Which alters Van content to find,
> Or bends with the remover, remove.
> Oh no, it is a never fixed mark
> That looks on threads and posts n'er shaken;
> It is the subject, VANS ONLY, Admin's bark,
> What fools we are whose course are taken.
> The Posts are writ and replies we sneak
> Without regard to top post or trim,
> We post and post and Posts we tweak,
> Think not of the Man  the Admin:
> If this be error,and upon me be proved,
> I never writ, nor no Van be loved.
>
> Stephen
> Chillicothe, Ohio
>

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Neil2
'82 Diesel Westfalia (USS Tinosa)
'86 Vanagon/Westfalia Wannabe (SaVannah)
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