/m4851 Thankfully, there appear to this Agent to be no more vomitings from beyond the grave from those who cannot even fathom the nature of Agenthood!

/m4855
..ha!
*Helen Owly's /m4855 has been framed and set in a prominent position on my mantel*

/m4851 Francine, this Agentess is reminded, as it were, via the preceeding communique that circumloquatiousness is not, in and of itself, ipso facto, QED, ASPCA, shama-lama-ding-dang, duke-duke-duke-duke-of-earl-earl-earl-duke-of-earl-earl-earl merely enough. Evidently one must evince, via reference to obscure and obtuse figures of Literature and Hystori, as Flatt and Scruggs themselves so ably did in singing a story 'bout a man named Jed, the Skipper, too; Gilligan and his wife, the Professor and Mary Ann, one's erudition, bang zoom, one'a these days, Alice, one'a these days, Alice, let's get Mikey he won't eat it he hates everything, aren't you glad you use Dial?

/m4850 The Agent believes that some would say that this is a matter of taste, and that, on a naive, even Edward-Learish, view of things, the pome in question had, stanza two answering stanza one, achieved a logical conclusion - as if, indeed, logic ever had aught to do with poesy! (Where, if it does, Lamia, then, The Agent asks?) He sees no reason why, with the necessary commitment to resubmit the 8 lines as they stand, the pome should not exist further in some parallel page to the completed one...

/m4852 :-)

/m4851 :-) This Agentess guesses that circumloquaciousness never her point of strongness was.

/m4850 That should have been worded thusly, in the syntax which is, so to speak, that which the Agent employs:
   "The Agentess thinks that emphatically or not or what it might be is that the nicest rule of etiquette would be to end pomes when logically that would occur--when coherence dictates or as the Spoonmaster deigns, oder."

This Agentess thinks that another nice rule of etiquette would be not to end pomes before they reach any sort of logical conclusion, e.g. SB2666--even when they show signs of becoming too coherent for one's particular taste.

/m4845 I think that's a reasonable rule of etiquette. But not enforceable.

/m4847 I don't know. I forgot my decoder ring. Anyway, I'm due back on planet Earth :-D

/m4846 Francine, I have to agree with you -- wha' th' @#$%& is he going on about?

Edited by author 02-05-2005 02:40 AM
/m4842 /m4844 /m4845 ??????

The Agent believes, about another poem, but in the same connection, that it was said in these pages that only those who had contributed to the piece could add to the envoi, oder?

The Agent had, as others had, been observing a pattern in Red, but he says 'Never mind'...

I don't think I've posted this over here yet. http://www.quicktopic.com/28/H/mHjR9wW8C8MQ

A place where former googlewhackers think things over....
http://www.unthunk.com/whack

You are all welcome to have a go at it, if you please!

archaeopteryx

The Agent has heard reports that some contributors think so little of TSG (or, by extrapolation, of their purported paid work) that it is only during the time of such work that they subscribe. These reports, dismal though they may be, do seem substantiated by the largely general failure of most regulars to make any addition in the last ten days. (Or is it that, if possible, their lives have been so much more scintillating as to exclude any thought of Spoonbilling?)