mokry@ctr.columbia.edu (Robert Mokry) (07/12/90)
Do you know what I hate? I mean what I absolute, positively, despise? Well, it's these people who write a paragraph with every damn line the same length (without inserting extra spaces). It all starts when they write something and then they suddenly realize, "Hey, all the previous lines have the same length!" and then they try to make the rest of the lines in their paragraph the same length, too, but that makes the rest of the lines somewhat incomprehensible, and they waste lots of time in doing it, which they should have spent doing their work. And finally, when they are finished, they think that they've accomplished something special. They feel that only their extraordinary grasp of the English language could create such a masterpiece. Oooooo, I really hate that. -- Edited by Brad Templeton. MAIL your jokes (jokes ONLY) to funny@looking.ON.CA Attribute the joke's source if at all possible. A Daemon will auto-reply. Remember: PLEASE spell check and proofread your jokes. You think I have time to hand-correct everybody's postings?
davez@ashtate.a-t.com (Dave Zobel) (08/02/90)
You might think In fact, An Really, this it's difficult, the size odd whole idea or that there's you pick idea is a bit magic involved, for your I had silly, but actually it lines is was to even turns out to be not very write a if incredibly easy crucial; sentence it to make all the they can such that gets lines the exact be short the length people same length, as or long. of each one to think anybody can see It turns of the lines you have a after trying to out that is just a bit rare talent. do it one time. the long different from And all without ones are the length of using a hyphen! easiest. the one that came before it, as you see here; however, I can't really say a lot, can I? -- Edited by Brad Templeton. MAIL your jokes (jokes ONLY) to funny@looking.ON.CA Attribute the joke's source if at all possible. A Daemon will auto-reply. Remember: PLEASE spell check and proofread your jokes. You think I have time to hand-correct everybody's postings?
raphael@fx.com (Glen Raphael) (08/11/90)
{ed This is the LAST of these I am going to take.}
I really liked the word pictures If you wish
that I saw while reading to make your word
netnews at my office the pictures look as good
other day, and it seemed as ours, you might need
like a really great concept, and to put some effort into
well worth taking the time it. It will come only
to come up with a few more after you think a
variations. These are some good one is
of the ideas that wouldn't not possible. But
let me rest until I chose to put if you do keep at it,
them down. Really, the persistence will reward
type of variation that you. It takes a careful
THIS form allows could eye for words and an
stagger the mind. Perhaps, if we impressive flair
wanted to, we could write for design
messages as a solid block to arrange words
of writing in which words in this manner. They
can also be read in the spacing! that try and fail, find
that they are still far
the wiser from having
Poetry doesn't really work made the attempt.
in this form, as it forces
changes in word-order that
can destroy rhythm, as in:
If I hadn't been delivered
by Caesarian, I bet that I
really wouldn't be such an
antidisestablishmentarian!
Then again, maybe I'm just
trying a little too hard.
I bet somebody out there
can write a decent poem
with a natural sort of
justification, but it
may not quite belong
in this newsgroup.
--Mr. Templeton?
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