Principia Discordia

Principia Discordia => Literate Chaotic => Topic started by: Rupert Giles on July 28, 2004, 08:07:02 PM

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Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: Rupert Giles on July 28, 2004, 08:07:02 PM
Please, don't make me go.
I don't think I wanna know.
But what you see inside
is all I've tried to hide.

You can't see me.
You can't hear me.
You've shut me out.
Turned about.
Walked on ahead.
Left me for dead.
Ignored my pleas.
You must be
so happy without me.

When we first met
I would have bet
You'd never has been
a very good friend.

A sorority girl.
You hair in curls.
Your car was bought
by your rich mom'n'pop.

You dress the same
as all the other dames
You and your sisters alone
could be mistaken for clones.

And what was I?
Just some dumb guy.
Who didn't care what he wore
I got what was in store.

For me.
And now you can...
see.

But...

You can't see me.
You can't hear me.
You've shut me out.
Turned about.
Walked on ahead.
Left me for dead.
Ignored my pleas.
You must be
so happy without me.

On our first date.
You were late.
We stayed out till dawn.
I passed out at home.

But I wasn't the kind of guy
That you were supposed to find.

The other girls
put it to a vote
They cast the dice
You gave up the ghost.

They told you that it was
them or me.
They...
made you see.

But...

You can't see me.
You can't hear me.
You've shut me out.
Turned about.
Walked on ahead.
Left me for dead.
Ignored my pleas.
You must be
so happy without me.

You must be
So Happy...

Really, Truely
happy.

Without...
me...
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: ~~~~Closed~~~~ on July 29, 2004, 04:42:11 AM
Poetry.Sucks.
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: Rupert Giles on July 29, 2004, 04:49:02 AM
Quote from: HotsumaPoetry.Sucks.

*Cries*
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: MescalineBanana on July 29, 2004, 06:18:43 AM
As soon as I saw it was poetry my mind went blank and my eyes unfocused.  Sorry, but I just don't have the attention span for that dribble you call "Poetry."  I'm sure it would be delightful if I read it.
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: Rupert Giles on July 29, 2004, 06:22:09 AM
Quote from: MescalineBananaAs soon as I saw it was poetry my mind went blank and my eyes unfocused.  Sorry, but I just don't have the attention span for that dribble you call "Poetry."  I'm sure it would be delightful if I read it.

*Bows*  Domo.
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on July 29, 2004, 07:14:35 AM
Quote from: HotsumaPoetry.Sucks.

Never read Kipling, eh?
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: Wishfarple on July 29, 2004, 01:15:11 PM
Quote from: HotsumaPoetry.Sucks.

Ooh, you forgot the "Most. " before that.  

Most everything sucks, it's true.  

The problem with poetry is that when it sucks, brother, it sucks BAD.  

Thing is, when it's good, it's sublime.  Many people don't bother learning how to appreciate (or even find) the good stuff, so many people mistake the stuff they see teenagers sticking in their livejournals or ripping off song lyrics for poetry, and assume it's representative.  That's like hearing your grade-school band and never wanting to hear the London Philharmonic.
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: ~~~~Closed~~~~ on July 30, 2004, 01:17:53 AM
"Good poetry" is an oxymoron.
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: Rupert Giles on July 30, 2004, 06:23:23 AM
Kind of like, "Elderly Ninja?"
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on July 30, 2004, 06:34:13 AM
Quote from: Hotsuma"Good poetry" is an oxymoron.

I disagree.

You don't like Kipling?  Sandberg?  That brain-damaged freak Samuel Coleridge Taylor?  Read HIS stuff...lots of greyfaces would move to make room on the bus for THAT drug fiend.
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: ~~~~Closed~~~~ on July 30, 2004, 06:42:21 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger
I disagree.

Then your wrong.
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: Rupert Giles on July 30, 2004, 06:43:02 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger
Quote from: Hotsuma"Good poetry" is an oxymoron.

I disagree.

You don't like Kipling?  Sandberg?  That brain-damaged freak Samuel Coleridge Taylor?  Read HIS stuff...lots of greyfaces would move to make room on the bus for THAT drug fiend.

Hey, Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the BOMB.

'And through the drifts the snowy clifts
did cast a dismal sheen:
Nor shapes of men nor beast we ken --
The Ice was all between.'

...

'About, about in reel and rout
the deaths fires danced at night.
And the water like a witches oils
Burnt green and blue and white.'

...

'They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose
Nor spake, nor moved their eyes;
It had been strange, even in a dream,
to have seen those dead men rise.'

...

'Water, water, everywhere.
And not a drop to drink.
Water, water, everywhere.
And all the boards did shrink.'

I think I can best describe the feeling that I get from reading that work by quoting from the Sandman.

Quote from: William ShakespereGod's Wounds!  If only I could write like you!

In Faustus where you wrote-- "To god!  He loves thee not!  The god thou servest is thine own appetite, wherein is fixed teh love of Beelzebub."

"To Him I'll build an altar and a church, and offer lukewarm blood of new-born babies."


It chills my blood.
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on July 30, 2004, 06:50:56 AM
Quote from: Hotsuma
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger
I disagree.

Then your wrong.

"You're".

You're welcome.
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on July 30, 2004, 06:51:34 AM
Quote from: Compositus Confusio
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger
Quote from: Hotsuma"Good poetry" is an oxymoron.

I disagree.

You don't like Kipling?  Sandberg?  That brain-damaged freak Samuel Coleridge Taylor?  Read HIS stuff...lots of greyfaces would move to make room on the bus for THAT drug fiend.

Hey, Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the BOMB.

'And through the drifts the snowy clifts
did cast a dismal sheen:
Nor shapes of men nor beast we ken --
The Ice was all between.'

...

'About, about in reel and rout
the deaths fires danced at night.
And the water like a witches oils
Burnt green and blue and white.'

...

'They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose
Nor spake, nor moved their eyes;
It had been strange, even in a dream,
to have seen those dead men rise.'

...

'Water, water, everywhere.
And not a drop to drink.
Water, water, everywhere.
And all the boards did shrink.'

I think I can best describe the feeling that I get from reading that work by quoting from the Sandman.

Quote from: William ShakespereGod's Wounds!  If only I could write like you!

In Faustus where you wrote-- "To god!  He loves thee not!  The god thou servest is thine own appetite, wherein is fixed teh love of Beelzebub."

"To Him I'll build an altar and a church, and offer lukewarm blood of new-born babies."


It chills my blood.

Try Taylor's Xanadu.

BRAIN DAMAGE.
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: ~~~~Closed~~~~ on July 30, 2004, 06:52:30 AM
Here's a list of good poetry. (http://tinyurl.com/18r)
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on July 30, 2004, 06:58:27 AM
Quote from: HotsumaHere's a list of good poetry. (http://tinyurl.com/18r)

I'm not clicking that.

The Good Rev,
Isn't clicking that.
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: ~~~~Closed~~~~ on July 30, 2004, 07:03:19 AM
What are you afraid of roger?
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: Bella on July 30, 2004, 07:04:44 AM
I clicked it and survived.
But then, I'm already dead anyway.
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: Rupert Giles on July 30, 2004, 07:06:18 AM
Quote from: SssBella, Oracle of DoomI clicked it and survived.
But then, I'm already dead anyway.

You like Buffy, perchance?
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on July 30, 2004, 07:13:09 AM
Quote from: HotsumaWhat are you afraid of roger?

Nothing.  It's just that I've been treading the more disreputable paths of the internet long enough to be wary of links in that context.
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: Rupert Giles on July 30, 2004, 07:14:35 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger
Quote from: HotsumaWhat are you afraid of roger?

Nothing.  It's just that I've been treading the more disreputable paths of the internet long enough to be wary of links in that context.

You remember IRC back before it went to shit?
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on July 30, 2004, 07:15:23 AM
Quote from: Compositus Confusio
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger
Quote from: HotsumaWhat are you afraid of roger?

Nothing.  It's just that I've been treading the more disreputable paths of the internet long enough to be wary of links in that context.

You remember IRC back before it went to shit?

Dude, I remember FIDONET.

Rev Roger,
Is really, really old.
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: Rupert Giles on July 30, 2004, 07:16:49 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger
Quote from: Compositus Confusio
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger
Quote from: HotsumaWhat are you afraid of roger?

Nothing.  It's just that I've been treading the more disreputable paths of the internet long enough to be wary of links in that context.

You remember IRC back before it went to shit?

Dude, I remember FIDONET.

Rev Roger,
Is really, really old.

Wow.

I attended Clemson University's Summer Science Program when I was like 13, and took a programming course there.

It was their 'advanced' one for the teenagers.  So it was in VB.  This was before I was shown the Light that is C and OOP.

My teacher there, I forget his name, was like 70, still doing Computer Sci.  He had worked on ENIAC as a programmer.  We talked alot.
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on July 30, 2004, 07:24:09 AM
Quote from: Compositus Confusio
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger
Quote from: Compositus Confusio
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger
Quote from: HotsumaWhat are you afraid of roger?

Nothing.  It's just that I've been treading the more disreputable paths of the internet long enough to be wary of links in that context.

You remember IRC back before it went to shit?

Dude, I remember FIDONET.

Rev Roger,
Is really, really old.

Wow.

I attended Clemson University's Summer Science Program when I was like 13, and took a programming course there.

It was their 'advanced' one for the teenagers.  So it was in VB.  This was before I was shown the Light that is C and OOP.

My teacher there, I forget his name, was like 70, still doing Computer Sci.  He had worked on ENIAC as a programmer.  We talked alot.

C???  Boy, are YOU spoiled.  The best I had was 8081..."WILL NOT COMPILE"  :x

Other than that, it was straight binary...all we had were 1's and 0's, and sometimes we didn't have any 1's.
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: Rupert Giles on July 30, 2004, 07:25:49 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger
Quote from: Compositus Confusio
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger
Quote from: Compositus Confusio
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger
Quote from: HotsumaWhat are you afraid of roger?

Nothing.  It's just that I've been treading the more disreputable paths of the internet long enough to be wary of links in that context.

You remember IRC back before it went to shit?

Dude, I remember FIDONET.

Rev Roger,
Is really, really old.

Wow.

I attended Clemson University's Summer Science Program when I was like 13, and took a programming course there.

It was their 'advanced' one for the teenagers.  So it was in VB.  This was before I was shown the Light that is C and OOP.

My teacher there, I forget his name, was like 70, still doing Computer Sci.  He had worked on ENIAC as a programmer.  We talked alot.

C???  Boy, are YOU spoiled.  The best I had was 8081..."WILL NOT COMPILE"  :x

Other than that, it was straight binary...all we had were 1's and 0's, and sometimes we didn't have any 1's.

You had ones?  We had the letter 'L', but only in lowercase.  Sometimes we didn't even have that.  I once wrote an entire database program using '\0'.
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: Guido Finucci on July 30, 2004, 07:26:46 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend RogerOther than that, it was straight binary...all we had were 1's and 0's, and sometimes we didn't have any 1's.

Binary huh? Bleeding luxury! Why when I was a boy we had to manipluate voltages manually, with our tongues, because we were all out of vaccum tubes, and if we got our fingers caught in the cogs they just sawed our digits off with a rusty spoon and made us reconfigure the machine from scratch with our bleeding stumps.
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: Rupert Giles on July 30, 2004, 07:28:50 AM
Quote from: Guido Finucci
Quote from: The Good Reverend RogerOther than that, it was straight binary...all we had were 1's and 0's, and sometimes we didn't have any 1's.

Binary huh? Bleeding luxury! Why when I was a boy we had to manipluate voltages manually, with our toungues, because we were all out of vaccum tubes and if we got our fingers caught in the cogs they just sawed them off with a rusty spoon and made us reconfige the machine from scratch with our bleeding stumps.

You had cogs?!

We had to glue triangular prisms onto rectangular prisims!  Sometimes we didn't even have triangular prisms!  I once made a cog out of my head and Josh's finger bones.
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on July 30, 2004, 07:29:16 AM
Quote from: Guido Finucci
Quote from: The Good Reverend RogerOther than that, it was straight binary...all we had were 1's and 0's, and sometimes we didn't have any 1's.

Binary huh? Bleeding luxury! Why when I was a boy we had to manipluate voltages manually, with our toungues, because we were all out of vaccum tubes and if we got our fingers caught in the cogs they just sawed them off with a rusty spoon and made us reconfige the machine from scratch with our bleeding stumps.

Yeah, but our binary was done with small stones.  We had one of the other cave men eat the stones, to complie the program.

Unfortunately, most of our programs were along the lines of "let's make Oog strain to take a dump."

Good times.
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: Guido Finucci on July 30, 2004, 07:30:36 AM
Quote from: Compositus ConfusioYou had cogs?!

We had to glue triangular prisms onto rectangular prisims!

Glue?! Oh! I lay awake at night dreaming about glue....
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: Rupert Giles on July 30, 2004, 07:31:20 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger
Quote from: Guido Finucci
Quote from: The Good Reverend RogerOther than that, it was straight binary...all we had were 1's and 0's, and sometimes we didn't have any 1's.

Binary huh? Bleeding luxury! Why when I was a boy we had to manipluate voltages manually, with our toungues, because we were all out of vaccum tubes and if we got our fingers caught in the cogs they just sawed them off with a rusty spoon and made us reconfige the machine from scratch with our bleeding stumps.

Yeah, but our binary was done with small stones.  We had one of the other cave men eat the stones, to complie the program.

Unfortunately, most of our programs were along the lines of "let's make Oog strain to take a dump."

Good times.

You had the Genus Homo to experiment on?

Back in my day were were all archaebateria!
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: Malaul on July 30, 2004, 07:49:04 AM
::swoons at all the nerdy talk::
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: Rupert Giles on July 30, 2004, 08:37:35 AM
Quote from: Malaul::swoons at all the nerdy talk::

Compositus would catch the swooning Malaul and let one hand brush against her cheek softly as he looked into her eyes.
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on July 30, 2004, 08:53:46 AM
Quote from: Compositus Confusio
Quote from: Malaul::swoons at all the nerdy talk::

Compositus would catch the swooning Malaul and let one hand brush against her cheek softly as he looked into her eyes.

THAT DOES IT!  You're going DOWN, lad!
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: Rupert Giles on July 30, 2004, 09:05:34 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger
Quote from: Compositus Confusio
Quote from: Malaul::swoons at all the nerdy talk::

Compositus would catch the swooning Malaul and let one hand brush against her cheek softly as he looked into her eyes.

THAT DOES IT!  You're going DOWN, lad!

I'm sorry, Master!
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: ~~~~Closed~~~~ on July 30, 2004, 09:15:37 AM
Quote from: Compositus Confusio
Compositus would catch the swooning Malaul and let one hand brush against her cheek softly as he looked into her eyes.

*bans CC*
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: Rupert Giles on July 30, 2004, 09:16:03 AM
Quote from: Hotsuma
Quote from: Compositus Confusio
Compositus would catch the swooning Malaul and let one hand brush against her cheek softly as he looked into her eyes.

*bans CC*

You can't do that on Television.
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: ~~~~Closed~~~~ on July 30, 2004, 09:18:14 AM
yes I can I own television.


*bans CC*
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: Rupert Giles on July 30, 2004, 09:20:57 AM
Quote from: Hotsumayes I can I own television.


*bans CC*

You're British, aren't you?
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: Malaul on July 30, 2004, 03:34:04 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger
Quote from: Compositus Confusio
Quote from: Malaul::swoons at all the nerdy talk::

Compositus would catch the swooning Malaul and let one hand brush against her cheek softly as he looked into her eyes.

THAT DOES IT!  You're going DOWN, lad!
HURRAYYYYYY






oh
wait
you dont mean that they way I thought you might,,,

my bad
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: Malaul on July 30, 2004, 03:34:28 PM
Quote from: Compositus Confusio
Quote from: Hotsumayes I can I own television.


*bans CC*

You're British, aren't you?
no, hes just a jerk



:twisted:  :twisted:
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: ~~~~Closed~~~~ on July 31, 2004, 01:41:12 AM
Quote from: Compositus Confusio
Quote from: Hotsumayes I can I own television.


*bans CC*

You're British, aren't you?

Irish, actually.
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on July 31, 2004, 06:51:24 AM
Quote from: Hotsuma
Quote from: Compositus Confusio
Quote from: Hotsumayes I can I own television.


*bans CC*

You're British, aren't you?

Irish, actually.

KISS ME, I'm IRISH!

KISS ME, I just blew up a police station, I'm Irish!
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: Malaul on August 24, 2004, 01:59:33 AM
KISS ME IM FAELAN!!!




doesnt have the same ring to it
dang
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: Rupert Giles on August 24, 2004, 05:51:54 AM
Quote from: MalaulKISS ME IM FAELAN!!!




doesnt have the same ring to it
dang

Dream would step across the void between the worlds, appearing in the Waking World infront of Faelan.  His lily-white, robe clad arms would wrap around her, and he would dip her, leaning her back, his lips pressing against hers.
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: Rev Thwack on August 24, 2004, 05:53:41 AM
how come nobody ever goes for "blow me, I'm Irish"?
Title: CC writes pretty thing redux
Post by: Rupert Giles on August 24, 2004, 05:54:52 AM
Quote from: Rev Thwackhow come nobody ever goes for "blow me, I'm Irish"?

Obviously you've never heard of the Twin Irish Curses.