Personally I find that when a thread that I'm participating in starts throwing stones the easiest way to avoid the war is to simply stop participating. Mr. B - You poem is brilliant! Thank you. -- Geoff Sykes -- Los Angeles -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Alan Barnard Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 4:01 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Off List, the Bard Speaketh List Wars How oft we do snivel, o'er twaddle and drivel While tempers and nostrils flare, When Live and Let Live'l be so much more civil (Or does anyone really still care?) The big question, however, is how folks endeavor (While hurling mud, willy-nilly), To keep themselves clean, no matter how mean, Over stuff that's really so silly. And while I'm confused as to why words are used To wound those who'd be better as friends, Can we not call a truce and stop this abuse, Perhaps rethink each message one sends? You have to wonder (when all's said and done And the wounded lie bleeding): Who actually won? And sometimes, too, with all that todo, Are cyberwars all that much fun? These Internet blokes hurling barbs, telling jokes (Near anonymous, though they may be), Are often defending what they ought to be ending To save their own sanity. And yet ... I marvel That folks with their skin so exceedingly thin (You usually can see right through 'em) Are able to function despite this compunction To spit forth words, and then rue 'em. After all ... When one's skin IS so painfully thin, How DOES one keep one's insides in? Alan Barnard Sometime Supersillyass Poet from Salem, MO -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070927/651a2554/attachment.html
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