poet laureate of FFL? (and no disrespect meant to Mr. B., seriously)
its just one hell of a good poem. artistry.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Beneath his lipstick rhetoric squealing
> Barry's pig and pitchfork, revealing
> Sticking it to you at every turn
> Oblivious that he will earn
> A place in Hell
> Where he will tell
> Amid throngs of people booing
> An account of his vile spewing
> Inciting the killing of Amos and Andy
> Know well, this unrepentant Dandy
> Is just a creepy Nancy
> Using words of fancy
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" <feste37@> wrote:
> > >
> > > I see that an all-out gender war has erupted here on FFL,
> > > to which my only contribution (for the moment) is to say
> > > that no death threats have been issued by anyone.
> >
> > As I told Curtis, what you mean to say is that
> > you don't agree with me as to what constitutes
> > a death threat.
> >
> > Turq's post is a satirical flight of
> > > fancy, suggesting that, "if you go on getting hot under
> > > the collar, you're likely to spontaneously combust!"
> > > Quite amusing really.
> >
> > As I said to Curtis:
> >
> > Barry's just a little too sophisticated to make
> > a death threat that would qualify by your lights.
> > All he has to do to make it acceptable to you is
> > to construct a purportedly humorous context for
> > it.
> >
> > But it's still a death threat, just with a thick
> > layer of lipstick.
> >
> > To which I now add: You're so distracted by the
> > lipstick (just as Barry intended) that you can't
> > see the viciious pig underneath it.
> >
> > Just as an exercise, imagine that there were two
> > outspoken Obama opponents on FFL who happened to
> > be black (yes, there are blacks who oppose Obama),
> > and that Barry had written the following:
> >
> > "In related news, a poll conducted at bellweather [sic]
> > Internet chat site Fairfield Life indicates that the
> > popularity rating on that site for posters Amos
> > and Andy (considered representative of Republican
> > tactics) has dropped in the last week from the next-to-
> > lowest Category Y ('Strident revenge coons from Hell')
> > to the lowest possible Category Z ('Dumb angry niggers
> > too stupid to live.')
> >
> > "Experts are studying the possibility that, since there
> > is no lower level to sink to in terms of favorability
> > ratings, if Amos and Andy continue their anti-Obama
> > activism at this point, something more drastic may
> > happen to the two activists -- actually getting their
> > necks broken at the end of a rope."
> >
>
