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Ben, to think that i have been whistling "24 Hours to Tulsa", today on Friday 13th.
Think i will Have a drink, this evening.
Georges

Dear George

Four options to rehabilitate Hairy Tick

Option 1
If Hairy Tick had to apply every year to re-join the human race he would never be allowed back in. However, since he is Britain's best known Brain Donor he can now use the cash to buy a heart and all the lousy wee poets like us could sponsor a Love Poem for him with the title 'Love in Hairy Tick's New Heart' and we all could contribute so generously. This would be I think be a kind of poetic justice by engineering. This would probably put a smile on Hairy Tick's face for the first time.
It feels like Christmas all over again, doesn't it just Santa?

Option 2
An Anger Management course for Poetry Rage, very popular with the non-academic maturing student. Or an advanced course on glass polishing and ashtray handling

Option 3
Since Barbie and Ken have officially split up you suggested that I should fix Hairy Tick with a Blind Date, but you didn't mention if that was with Ken or Barbie? Life's fantastic in plastic

Option 4
Show all Hairy Tick's private messages to you, so the forum can see what a crawler he really is?


The option is yours, make your choice.

Voice off- screen ''Last orders, please' Shouts Hairy Tick.
George control yourself, this is a public place.

Cheers

Ben

A publican's dream The Last orders, a chance to rest and perhaps study some Law Papers
Ben another option, maybe Hairy Tick will just go away and leave us wee poets alone with our spider, or wee timid mouse?
Nae hae towards.....
Georges

It's certainly no secret how I feel about the behaviour of the one you call Hairy Tick (that word play, btw, had me rolling under the table in spasms of barely controlled mirth, as did LaurieAK's Family Tree), and I do most definitely understand your reacting to his nastiness and negativity regarding the poetry section in general and your poetry, George, in particular. So please don't erroneously regard this post as a defense of James or as a criticism or as my attempting to control anyone's thoughts, reactions, or anything else on this particular thread.

This is entirely my own personal feeling and I need to express it. To make fun of and censure someone's behaviour, over which they do have some control, is perfectly acceptable in my opinion. But to make fun of who someone is, is another matter entirely. Your running joke here regarding James' association with the bar/Bar, although very amusing and a lot of fun, is cruel and hurtful and very personal.

I may be wrong - I don't read all the threads in the forum, and very few poetry threads - but I don't think I've seen James being as personally hurtful as this - his nastiness has been limited so far to what people have said and has not extended to who they are.

As LaurieAK said "..as you was"

Jo

I am with you all the way Jo, I have too been offended by the nastiness going towards Heretic/Partisan as a private person. It can even feel more mean than the postings from September_cohen, who just gives us all a knock around the board.

Let the comments be strong and funny with irony and sarcasme, but do not mix things up. We all have a life out of this "Cohenworld", but let us have that part in peace.

hugs from Cia

Let me be the third person to come out in support of Heretic on this point (BTW I believe, but am willing to be told otherwise that it was Byron in fit of inspired Milliganesque who dubbed him Hairy Tick)

In the past Heretic has been condemned by many for criticising other members of this forum - now the boot is on the other foot, but this form of personal attack is still not right and it never can be.

JTS (Must be very feeling very RC today)

let's call it a draw and move on somewhere more interesting. I am guilty of chasing people I don't like- for example the soft Dutch ninny Benders who occasionally goes onto the Cohen newsgroup.

I normally behave like that when I am seriously bored or have my own problems. There are other, probably decent people, like Geoffrey Wren (Snow) on the NG, to whom I give an inappropriately hard time and I apologise. And Jack Lazariuk just sits up and begs for a kicking.

I met James in Hydra. I don't think we ever had a personal conversation but he is one of the wider Cohen group. He is intolerant and his critiques are hardly subtle or intellectual but he is not a bad lad at all. If he ever wrote poetry it would certainly be crap but I don't think he does, so we are safe.

I have met Ben and he is an interesting and talented man.

It's not a big deal if no-one takes any notice of my opinion. But this particular thread, and squabbling generally here, is a shame.

Michael

ps - you can save time if you wish and call me a hypocrite already as I am bound to revert to type soon enough.

whoops, forgot to add. Isn't that 2Strictly_Confidential good. Lovley poem about the Zippo lighter. Now I would love to meet him. I'm going to make a date straight away.

Well that should be easy making a date with 2sc - guess you already know the answer

Did it ever come to the zippo-givers mind that she might already carry a torch for him, and not really need the zippolighter?

best of all
Cia

I stood myself up, can't believe it.

the zippo-giver wanted her to have something to keep, a momento, for when it ended. he didn't really know it would be just a week later.

It was Coco who dubbed Partisan "Hairy Tick." Coco, if you are still reading the forum, loved your resignation letter. I worked in a personel department for seven years and have seen a lot of resignation letters. But yours was the best ever! Led Zepplin, and frying pans. Excellent!!!


Mark

P.S. Is it a class thing about the "mature student" in GB. Over here, just about everybody goes back to school for one reason or another. It's seen as something postive not negative.

Michael, to say the James is intolerant is somewhat of an understatement.
Ben Kelly is indeed a talented man. Mark, our lessons are never done and we are always learning. It's how you put that learning to use.
Georges

Dear All

I really feel that the Big Bad Boo Boys have won on the board and the agenda has been stolen from the central theme that of poetry. Comments on the poetry should be either positive or negative but surely not with abusive.

There are various other sites on the board to accommodate other interest but these again are filled with more abusive comments from the Big Bad Boo Boys. Why?

We have a free facility to enjoy although someone must pay for this, why spoil it?

Kind regards

Ben