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TEA
TIME in L.A. (4 PM Pacific) Buffy Verse & Discussion... no
Brits allowed<g>
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Tea Time #3 "Constructive
Praise"
Posted by: forensicpopouri - Mar 21, 2002, 7:01
PM
LINK to today's SONNET (#3) What Do
We Hold Sacred? (usually posted
at Noon,
Pacific)
http://www.buffy.com/bronze_posts.jsp?tid=47636
WELCOME
It's tea time in Santa
Monica,
the Pacific
breeze pushes the smog back downtown,
and the
"sharks" are still stuck not returning calls in
their nasty little offices
in
Beverly Hills. <smile>
At the request
of Pleasant_Guest the first topic up for
discussion today is
"Why
does the sultry sulking and pleasing perversity of
a pouting plum
seduce
strangers blind to her blade?"
KIDDING!
<ewg>
No, seriously
... after reading today's sonnet, PG suggested
that we
focus our attention
on praising the BtVS
team.
Which fits in
with an article I had an English professor at U of
St. Thomas
send me yesterday
about
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CONSTRUCTIVE
PRAISE
I'll now pour myself a cup of
coffee oops, tea . . . and
listen.
As is perversely usual for me
<smile>, I'll be around 'till 5 PM
(Pacific).
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FOOTNOTES
NOTE:
The rhetorical verse above is in Shakespearean
sonnet form.
NOTE: Being abandoned by the
British, California now claims Tea Time as
our own.
Tea Time in L.A. is, by proclamation,
4:00 PM -- Pacific time, obviously.
<g>
BRONZE-LINKS TO PREVIOUS TEA TIME
SONNETS:
#1 Beyond
"Normal
Again"
http://www.buffy.com/bronze_posts.jsp?tid=46649
#2
Riley & Sam's
Grown-up-itude
http://www.buffy.com/bronze_posts.jsp?tid=47071
NOTE:
Replies include insightful rhyming couplets by
prunehilda
you
speak
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Responses
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POOF ...
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - Mar 21, 2002, 8:03
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And so farewell, PG
... and all ... until another time.
<smile>
To wrap this Tea Time up I repost
our "collaborative verse"
in praise of the Whedon
team.
HAIKU OF PRAISE
Painful
transcendence
is a more
challenging
art
than
staking Big Bads.
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(sigh) ! ah well!!!
| Posted by:
Pleasant
Guest - Mar 21,
2002, 7:57 PM |
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cyberhug!
I
enjoy chatting! Until next time...
(mounts
dappled gray unicorn and gallops blithely away, smiling
over one shoulder and pleased you don't think me
complete moron after the "conversation" you witnessed
with SPOCKSMYGOD and the...uh...accessories.)
=)
lol
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the Tea Time clock minute hand goes round
but 6 more times ...
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - Mar 21, 2002, 7:54
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...but I'm delighted
by the result.
A "collaborative
verse."
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(sincere and gentle applause and
smiling.)
| Posted by:
Pleasant
Guest - Mar 21,
2002, 7:51 PM |
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as I have said before,
"thou art as wise as thou art beautiful."
Is tea
nearly over? =(
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<smile> then may I order from the
haiku menu for the lady ...
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - Mar 21, 2002, 7:48
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HAIKU
Painful
transcendence
is a more
challenging
art
than
staking Big Bads.
Nor do I claim the
level of art for my "rhetorical verses" ...
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except when I do. <smile>
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I
studied haiku in my oriental lit class but I write prose
I'm afraid...
| Posted by:
Pleasant
Guest - Mar 21,
2002, 7:44 PM |
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rather romantic smutty
stuff, not art by any means...lol
but a chinese
princess once wrote:
"may we not meet in the next
life
if not in this one my dearest?"
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I
think...
| Posted by:
Pleasant
Guest - Mar 21,
2002, 7:40 PM |
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Did you check out my
post 'bout a quarter page down?
mayhap that
might....(smile slowly, eyes never leaving your face)
inspire you?
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we posted simultaneously, PG ... didn't
see your reply
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - Mar 21, 2002, 7:39
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Perhaps you could
haiku your "transcendant" idea?
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Specific, high quality PRAISE is so much
harder than clever CRITICISM
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - Mar 21, 2002, 7:36
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... which explains the
silence. <smile>
Well, that, and the fact
that the tea got cold.<g>
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well...how about the idea that the show
transcends itself?
| Posted by:
Pleasant
Guest - Mar 21,
2002, 7:36 PM |
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Buffy is being
transfigured by her experiences.
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turning his attention to THE TOPIC
<g> ... and momentarily ignoring
diversions<ewg>
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - Mar 21, 2002, 7:26
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What facet of the
Whedon team should we focus our attention on
in
composing our ode of praise?
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"his mind in engaged in the rapt
contemplation of the thought of the thought of the
thought..."
| Posted by:
Pleasant
Guest - Mar 21,
2002, 7:23 PM |
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=)
I think I
like you.
You're a mad genius, are you
not?
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I'd like to briefly praise Tallian for
her posting a limerick today ...
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - Mar 21, 2002, 7:21
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I smile, and move on.
<grin>
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my smiles are as inscrutable as my
posts
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - Mar 21, 2002, 7:19
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<smile>
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High Tea is 5:00 ... My Tea is 4:00
<g>
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - Mar 21, 2002, 7:17
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No, you Brits can't
have regular Tea Time back.
We have stolen it
fair and square.
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afternoon tea and high tea are 2 entirely
different entities!!!
| Posted by:
Pleasant
Guest - Mar 21,
2002, 7:16 PM |
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afternoon tea is a
formalised social affair.
high tea is a light
meal.
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ah !!!! "curiouser & curiouser!!!"
like the chesire cat in Alice's Adventures
=)
| Posted by:
Pleasant
Guest - Mar 21,
2002, 7:15 PM |
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"smilest
thou?"
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can't leave
without......
| Posted by:
holywater - Mar 21, 2002, 7:15
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sharing this cracker
from my extremely Giles-like mother
"High tea is
early evening between say 5 and 6. It consists of a
cooked dish followed by bread, butter and jam etc, and
cakes"
...so now you know why it can never be
yours...rule britannia..
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PG ....
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - Mar 21, 2002, 7:13
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I strive for
inscrutability ... except when writing sonnets.
<smile>
Good idea for today's topic!
Even if I bent it to my own perverse purpose.
<g>
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ummm.....(eyes wide, truly surprised) I
SEDUCED someone?
| Posted by:
Pleasant
Guest - Mar 21,
2002, 7:08 PM |
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dearest, in the south
we call it flirting and all nice girls do
it!
Hi!
I'll say this for you, you're
great shock value!
You don't know my
Bard?
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