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I know what you mean about being sorry you asked!

When I was first introduced to the internet, I noticed in one 'chat' room (I was plugged into MSN at the time and looked at a few of the rooms to see what the world had been talking about). I couldn't help but notice some of the adolescent doodlings depicted. These doodlings were put together by certain letters and symbols on our keyboards and were not exactly 'art' but they were certainly suggestive of anatomy. I wonder how many hours those young brains spent on such a labour intensive waste of time?

Linda.

Ann !

Such a precious delicacy, your creative poem "Petals"! Actually, I love it . Good thing you attached your copyright symbol to it, or Geoffrey might have flown the coop with it.

~ Lizzy

linda_lakeside wrote:
>I find ann's graphic quite endearing.

Yes, me too. A lovely little flower emitting a radiance. I know Ann personally and can guarantee that the graphic she chose is a very apt representation of her personality. Some poor people don't have these so-called 'avatar' pictures - and that's a shame because one is tempted to think that they don't know how to do it - that they are inept in the use of their computers. It's as if they're advertising the fact that they are incompetent, that they don't understand the complexities of data. Well, I think a woman can be excused because women in general do tend to have difficulties in grasping this kind of thing. Nothing wrong with that; it's just in their nature. I will not let anybody tell me that they are not excellent at shopping and doing household chores, for example. But it was men who invented computers and internet - no women were involved at all - and that's why they are excused if they lack the technical ability to put these small pictures near their names. But when I see a man not being able to do it - and there are one or two around - then I begin to wonder to myself what sort of poof is he. As for myself, I like to think I am more of the masculine type with testosterone dripping out of my ears. I can't stand effeminate men, and that's what I think of when I see they are incapable of sticking a tiny illustration near their name.

linda_lakeside wrote:I know what you mean about being sorry you asked!

When I was first introduced to the internet, I noticed in one 'chat' room (I was plugged into MSN at the time and looked at a few of the rooms to see what the world had been talking about). I couldn't help but notice some of the adolescent doodlings depicted. These doodlings were put together by certain letters and symbols on our keyboards and were not exactly 'art' but they were certainly suggestive of anatomy. I wonder how many hours those young brains spent on such a labour intensive waste of time?

Linda.

Young teens can only think of anything other than sex for about 30 seconds at a time.

Fljots,

Young teens can only think of anything other than sex for about 30 seconds at a time.

Which would seem to correspond with the adult population at large.

Linda.

Snow,

Yes, I like shopping very much as well.

Linda.

Snow wrote:linda_lakeside wrote:
>I find ann's graphic quite endearing.

Yes, me too. A lovely little flower emitting a radiance. I know Ann personally and can guarantee that the graphic she chose is a very apt representation of her personality. Some poor people don't have these so-called 'avatar' pictures - and that's a shame because one is tempted to think that they don't know how to do it - that they are inept in the use of their computers. It's as if they're advertising the fact that they are incompetent, that they don't understand the complexities of data. Well, I think a woman can be excused because women in general do tend to have difficulties in grasping this kind of thing. Nothing wrong with that; it's just in their nature. I will not let anybody tell me that they are not excellent at shopping and doing household chores, for example. But it was men who invented computers and internet - no women were involved at all - and that's why they are excused if they lack the technical ability to put these small pictures near their names. But when I see a man not being able to do it - and there are one or two around - then I begin to wonder to myself what sort of poof is he. As for myself, I like to think I am more of the masculine type with testosterone dripping out of my ears. I can't stand effeminate men, and that's what I think of when I see they are incapable of sticking a tiny illustration near their name.

As you know, Geoffers, we gay lawyers insist on a very high "standard of poof" before accepting any proposition as true. However, an admission against interest is invariably compelling unless extracted by torture such as the force feeding (or false reading) of crude doggerel.

So please take my word for it that I still can't work out how to use avatarthingys. Please pm or email me immediately with instructions so that, if only in this one respect, I can match your shining talent.

As you also know, I too have a special relationship with Ann, (and it's true she speaks very mediumly of you). I too was impressed and knew she were different from the others when I went into her office that time and saw that she didn't have the obligatory rubbers in the corner of her desk drawer like all of her colleagues.

Boy, we have so much in common (except my poem in this thread was much funnier than yours and had way better rhythm)

kindest regards

c2

ps Ann agrees I have much better rhythm. What can she mean?

linda_lakeside wrote:Fljots,

Young teens can only think of anything other than sex for about 30 seconds at a time.

Which would seem to correspond with the adult population at large.

Linda.

Not me, dear. I have no sex hormones left. It's great!

It's much worse for teens than adults, though. They are not used to all those hormones sloshing around their systems in huge amounts. They have far more, I believe, than 20+s.

Fljotsdale wrote:

linda_lakeside wrote:Fljots,

Young teens can only think of anything other than sex for about 30 seconds at a time.

Which would seem to correspond with the adult population at large.

Linda.

Not me, dear. I have no sex hormones left. It's great!

yeah, but that's a Brummy thing isn't it? Here in The Smoke we keep our sex drive going well into our thirties...

Well, of course!

But you start to get a bit more control of mind and body by age 20 wherever you live, lol! A fact of nature is that teens get a massive rush of hormones that gradually reduces, so that by 20 you start to get sane again.

By the time you're my age - if female, anyway - they have all gone away, tra la! and you have your sanity back!

Imo, under the age of 11, and over the age of 58ish, are the only times when humans don't look at the other sex and wonder whether they would be good in bed, or decide they wouldn't be seen dead in bed with them.
In other words, children and post-menopausal adult females see others as people, not as potential sex partners. Hormones, although essential for the continuation of the species, are mind warping. Imo, anyway. Only children and post-menopausal females are really sane...

Discuss ~

hmmmmm

hugs Cia

greeting freinds et family in the world. here ahmed al-ghannam your brother wish pease on yous in leonhard coen name.
ahmed

Hello, Ahmed.

Do you mean peas (vegetable) or peace (as in: peace be with you)?

Either way, nice to meet you!

ahmed wrote:greeting freinds et family in the world. here ahmed al-ghannam your brother wish pease on yous in leonhard coen name.
ahmed

I presume that is you, Geoff. Hi to you in Norway.

Hello Dear Geoffrey,

Thank you for the interesting poem. It is quite insightful of you and shows how well read you are when comparing it to this one from Gregory Corso:

I Held A Shelley Manuscript
Gregory Corso

My hands did numb to beauty
as they reached into Death and tightened!

O sovereign was my touch
upon the tan-inks's fragile page!

Quickly, my eyes moved quickly,
sought for smell for dust for lace
for dry hair!

I would have taken the page
breathing in the crime!
For no evidence have I wrung from dreams--
yet what triumph is there in private credence?

Often, in some steep ancestral book,
when I find myself entangled with leopard-apples
and torched-skin mushrooms,
my cypressean skein outreaches the recorded age
and I, as though tipping a pitcher of milk,
pour secrecy upon the dying page.

I believe that Corso and Allen Ginsburg spent some time on Hydra-though I'm not sure if Leonard was there at the time. Corso is buried in a grave plot in Rome across from his beloved Percy Bysshe.

My Dear C2,
Can you share with me the secrets of avatars when you figure it out so that I'm not the only poof left. I promise to write more doggeral if you do.

Joe