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Date:         Sat, 20 Dec 2008 09:47:43 -0800
Reply-To:     Neil2 <vidublu@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Neil2 <vidublu@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Administrivia Friday Poem Fest
Comments: To: Stephen Steele <steeles@horizonview.net>
In-Reply-To:  <48D5EC5C-843C-4BC0-A7C9-3DF474089437@horizonview.net>
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Here, here! Bravo man!

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Stephen Steele <steeles@horizonview.net>wrote:

> Freeform: > Jim quits. > Now what. > Will the inmates rule? > > The Limerick: > Whether Coyote, Tom C. or Jim > the talk is always about "him". > We all love the Van. > No matter the Man. > Now, I thinks it's all about trim. > OR > There once was a Man named Arnott > The No Van posts and trim he fought, > The flame wars he'll review, > And subscriptions renew. > But Moderate, he thinks NOT! > > > > The Haiku(rhymed): > Friday is now here. > NVC is now less clear. > How can the Man steer? > > The Haiku(traditional, unrhymed): > "I quit", says Jim A. > "Your work is valued", say we. > Says he, "I'll do flames". > > The English Sonnet: (With apologies to Bill S and his Sonnet No. 116) > Let us not to non-Vanagon opine > Admit digressions, love is not love > Which alters Van content to find, > Or bends with the remover, remove. > Oh no, it is a never fixed mark > That looks on threads and posts n'er shaken; > It is the subject, VANS ONLY, Admin's bark, > What fools we are whose course are taken. > The Posts are writ and replies we sneak > Without regard to top post or trim, > We post and post and Posts we tweak, > Think not of the Man the Admin: > If this be error,and upon me be proved, > I never writ, nor no Van be loved. > > Stephen > Chillicothe, Ohio >

-- Neil2 '82 Diesel Westfalia (USS Tinosa) '86 Vanagon/Westfalia Wannabe (SaVannah) Nunquam Pendite Divendium


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