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just popped in- stop- can't stay long-stop- going to bus -stop

Respects to you for your poem thread, it has caught on well my friend, but I must warn you though(knowing me on hootoo)most off mine will have a daft bent to themmaybe the odd serious one.
If you do not want daft stuff, it's ok, please tell me as I would not want to deride the thread

A question if I may ? on your p/s it says your birthday June 21, on being born on the 21st of the month,is that each year.

I can't remember if you have seen my thread on poems /verse, but please feel free to add any of your own to it(home grown only)
F1926355?thread=533382
I don't read poetry as such, but enjoy reading friends writings of them

bus coming!

Hi Prof,

Daft stuff is perfectly acceptable on the new poetry game as far as I'm concerned - with a mixrure of more serious stuff that would be good - although others might not agree (I doubt it)

No, it's anyone born on the twenty first of any month for that first bit. It came from the internet, although that site (flagged on lil's homepage) is now running a different one, or was last time I looked. Wth me it's very much tongue in cheek. You might notice that I've made a few alterations, for fun. Do check up on the links next time you're around, for some more fun. The written bit's only half of it.

Thanks for the invite to your thread. I'll check it out.

Thanks too for joining in with the new thread, your contributions are very welcome indeed

Jab

my pleasure dear friend, I think my record for being serious, is about 30 mins tops and in no rush to break it

quick question, if you are of mind my friend(and all or any answers accepted,without any obligation)I have a hootoo 1st contact email address on my p/s,would you consider to go to email friendship ??

Certainly, my friend. I'm at [email protected] forward to it. Just drop me a line to get us going - your giant ps is for souls who are considerable more intrepid than me!


Jab

...but I should mention that I don't check email as often as I should, (it's on a different browser) - so don't necessarily expect quick answers. Apologies in advance

J

will be on the way shortly...Thank you

received with thanks

raven/writing desk = they both have a quill pen on them

Good try, Prof/Animal?, but it isn't always true.

There really is supposed to be no answer. I think Aldous Huxley came nearest - his answer was: Why is a Raven like a Writing-Desk? - because there's a b in both

Captures the spirit of the thing.

See A8134715


Jab

what are you doing up at this time, I was just going to sign off


in my way, there will be an answer(might be daft though)

I don't doubt it, Prof, I don't doubt it at all!

Just signing off meself. Sweet dreams,

Jab

take care my friend and "see" you later

"raven/writing desk" = because of a man writing with the pen and bringing the question in to existence


sorted!

forgot to add in email, I'm also a member of the R.A.O.B. (Buffalo's) last 25 years

Yes, a very good answer - but why?

Jab

Surely the similarity precludes and is assumed by the question?

Prof:

I'm ashamed to say I've only vaguely heard of the Buffaloes and don't know anything about them - do they raise funds/do things for others less fortunate? (Don't like the word charity if it's used casually)


Jab

raven/desk is a catch 22

a serious answer or daft one will counter each other,plus each will always be followed by a question,so neither can ever be the final answer. (I think)

but I like it all the same



we usually class ourselves as the poor man's Mason's
http://www.raob.org/about_the_raob.htm


I'm not poshI'm that posh, I put a white hanky over my finger before I pick my nose

I still say the pleasure in mine, my friend

Exactly, Prof. - Raven's is not meant to be a serious question even though it looks like one. Not all questions that look like serious questions are serious questions. Those who try to treat it as a serious question are missing the point entirely or are politicians or both, which is why A. Huxley's answer is so good The only answer that fits it doesn't fit it at all!

e.g. Can you tell me the way to Amarillo? Could you imagine some clunkhead starting to answer that, from somewhere (unspecified) in the world ?

or


Q.1. D'you pick your nose?

Q.2. Couldn't you have picked a better one?

As Wittgenstein said somewhere, beware of the forms of language, they can bewitch you.

Jab

way to Amarillo? as Bugs Bunny would say "turn left at Albuquerque"

Q.1 surely the queen does off camera
Q.2 if I'd the option, but it's a copy of me dad's

with my ness in humour, sometimes lateral thinking comes natural to me

a friend who used to attend our lodge, once said to the guys in another lodge that we had visited, when asked what am I going to come out with next, replied "he doesn't know himself, everything he does comes straight off the cuff, nothing is pre-planned" they were baffled, but it's true!