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My pet hate...
is untitled pieces of work. Poems and stories should have a title, it's an impoortant part of the package. A lack of title in a blog post is completely forgivable, of course.
posted by
ClareHill
on January 28, 2007 at 3:11 PM
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Kabu
That was pretty funny, all those women in high heels and skirts atop the castle ruins with the wind lashing around their ankles and knees! Did you buy your picture? We did. They sent it to our house, and we got a picture of some old guy's nostrils! After a phone call, they finally got it right, and a picture of my own nostrils now graces our vacation album!
posted by
Helen_Bach
on January 23, 2007 at 7:00 AM
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Kabu
Aha! I've finally tumbled to you!
You're the one who sneaks around sowing all them bean seeds about the place, aren't you? That extra jumbo, giant hybrid beanstalk
Them giants are a pretty mean lot, and those great clumping boots of theirs play hell with one's garden! To say nothing of all goats, the pets and kids that go missing.
why, only today, Lady Ariela found a bloodstained child's bootee under the one in our garden.
posted by
ariel70
on January 22, 2007 at 2:40 PM
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Many years ago I hung upside down and backwards with someone
holding onto my feet. I kissed the stone till my lips were raw. Much good it did me!!!!! Perhaps I was too busy being thankfull I wasn't wearing a skirt!
posted by
Kabu
on January 22, 2007 at 2:31 PM
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Very cute post. . . , and title.
And, I think you're right about the book/title combination being more important that the first sentence with novels.
posted by
Joe_Love
on January 19, 2007 at 9:32 PM
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Helen
Hmmm ... pity it didn't teach you how to spell in them, too! LOLOLOL ( That's maniacal laughter, see ?)
And too right ; I just don't want to even think about it. UGGGHHH!
That's heavy-duty disgust, see? Well, industrial-strength disgust, see?
Questions! Questions!
el ( curioso ) Tel
posted by
ariel70
on January 19, 2007 at 2:31 PM
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Ariel70
Ya don' wanna know how many lips've slobbered on that there stone. It were supposed ta grant the kisser with e-lo-quence and darned if it didn't wurk! I been able ta swear in 8 langwages ever since!
posted by
Helen_Bach
on January 19, 2007 at 2:25 PM
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Helen
Howly Moother o' God! Sure an' it's the wonder of the world that yez are not havin' a touch of the owld leprosy, kissin' that stone like dat!
I wouldn't kiss dat yoke if if was covered in poteen, so I wouldn't!
posted by
ariel70
on January 19, 2007 at 2:12 PM
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El Tel
I kissed the actual (?) Blarney Stone about 4 years ago, an' a crock o' Blarney it was indeed! The castle itself was breathtaking, though! (-pinngggg-)
posted by
Helen_Bach
on January 19, 2007 at 2:08 PM
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Helen
Ah shoor now, wasn't it meself as was brought up on a diet of Flan O'Brien, JM Synge and Yeats?
Did yez ever read "The Playboy of the Western World"?
Isn't that the most musical powerful slab of language yez ever read?
An wasn't it meself as well, altho' there's only one of me, that was after goin' ter see Brendan Behan's " The Quare Fella" back in the 1950s?
The Quare Fella is the Irish slang name for the hangman, see?
Learn something new on Blogit every day, so yer do!
el ( blarneying ) Tel
posted by
ariel70
on January 19, 2007 at 2:04 PM
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Ariel70
Yeah, I know. Some titles are just magical and virtually command to be written upon/about!
Gods, man, I wish I could write with an Irish accent like that!! I don't always know what you're saying, but I love it!
Reminds me, I've got to see if I can find a DVD version of Darby O'Gill and the Little People for the kids. They probably won't like it like I did, but a mamma's gotta try!
posted by
Helen_Bach
on January 19, 2007 at 1:58 PM
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Helen
I have been known to write a story/poem/article to a title.
Uh, huh, wow, that sounds good! yeah I can write a ( whatever ) about that!
Wonder if 'tis me owld Oirish ancestors begob?!! Or the Pishogue mebbe.
What d'yer think, mavourneen?
posted by
ariel70
on January 19, 2007 at 1:36 PM
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