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Yay! I am glad you two think it is a good idea! If anyone has any other possible awards they'd like to add to my list, go ahead and post them here. I will keep thinking about it also.
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Comment on Tarav's suggestion:
I think Tarav has a really interesting idea, in theory, but for the purposes of practicality, how is one going to be able to judge who is most knowledgable about "memes," or "classics," or anything else without name-dropping?
I can tell you about all the ancient historiography that I've read, and that I can name all the Roman Emperors in chronological order and how long they ruled, et cetera. I can tell you about my thorough knowledge of Hellenistic sculpture and pottery, and write for hours and hours on ancient maritime civilization. But who on earth wants to listen to me go on and on about such things?
And since the average thread doesn't allow a member to display knowledge in such typically arcane areas, how is one supposed to be able to display all that they know?
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John, I appreciate your feedback. I understand your concern. I have been at BookTalk for a long time so I may know some things about members from posts throughout the years that new members may not. The "meme" award was actually alluding to a member here, Monty aka memewars, who is our resident meme expert. There are some members that I can see obviously being in the running for some of the awards I proposed. That said, you raise a valid point in that other members, especially newer members, may not know about the experts at BookTalk and also may not have had the chance to let others know about their expertise. However, I do beg to differ on your assessment of member interest in things like Roman emperors and maritime history. We have had members interested in Roman civilization. I would strongly encourage you to post on anything that you are interested in! You never know who might share your interests!
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An Ode To Penelope, On Her Confidence:
Oh, Penelope! Penelope, Penelope, Penelope!
Posting your work, whether it be your prose or your poetry, isn't about it "passing muster." No decent person is going to single you out if they don't appreciate your work. It is my hope that the ones that are engaged by it and enjoy it will tell you so. In short, my idea behind posting poetry is much the same as it is posting book reviews or political commentary, or anything else that you can do on Booktalk.
Come on, I dare you...
I'm headed over to poetry right now to post something. Maybe I can convince you to dig up something and share it with us.
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Seen tonight on Dutch TV. a little game-You look in your bookcase and take the titles of three books that are arranged underneath each other and see if the titles make something poetic. Just done one of my bookcases and got -'The Phantom of the Temple' 'A Walk among the Tombstones' and 'Happy Days'.
My apologies to Chris -if it's a bit difficult to understand ! J.
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Have a great holiday Jay!! - Where in Italy? We toured around Italy last year - East Coast then across to Naples, Pompeii and Rome and drove up from there through France. It was very hot and very thunder stormy.
The Italians were the most pleasant and kind people - because we were a couple of old dodderers who kept getting lost and bumbling into all kinds of trouble. Chugging along in our old Peugot pulling our titchy caravan. We really got in the way....but how many times did people honk their horns at us? None.....they were just lovely and helped us.
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Penelopy it's a little village -in the Abruzzi mountains on the edge of the Park where Wolves a Bear and Deer abound -I've never seen 'em.
She {who must be obeyed} has a tiny house there. 2 weeks is all I can stand. No TV. No PC. But lovely scenery and cheap wine. Ancora Ciao.
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Isn't it odd Jaywalker? - Abruzzo is where we stayed - well it was Martin Securo where we parked our van. Not the prettiest of places but we got out and about all the time (in the thunderstorms).
I really am envious. Kiss all the Italians for me....no, perhaps you had better restrain yourself!!!
It's jolly good wine from that region though....we still have a bottle or two left.
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