On 13 Sep 2002 at 19:05, Blunderov wrote:
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> On Behalf Of Jkr438@aol.com
> Sent: 13 September 2002 05:18 PM
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> . . . and lo many score of mighty steed were ruthlessly beaten to
> death and beyond, as the crowds stared in amazement . . .
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> [Jake writes furiously]
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> [Jake] okay everyone let's STFU while Joe gets ready to talk to
> David. Now what was that, "exactly how has David ceded control?"
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> . . . as heads lean in towards the screens to better "hear."
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> Love,
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> -Jake
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> [Blunderov]
> Etymology: flaming derived from flyting ? You be the judge.
> <q>
> flyting
> (Scots: quarreling or contention), poetic competition of the
> Scottish makaris (poets) of the 15th and 16th centuries, in which two
> highly skilled rivals engaged in a contest of verbal abuse, remarkable
> for its fierceness and extravagance. Although contestants attacked
> each other spiritedly, they actually had a professional respect for
> their rivals vocabulary of invective. The tradition seems to have
> derived from the Gaelic filid (class of professional poets), who
> composed savage tirades against persons who slighted them. A
> Scandinavian counterpart is the Lokasenna (Flyting of Loki), a poem
> in the Poetic (Elder) Edda in which the trickster-god Loki bandies
> words with the other gods, taunting them with coarse jests. Although
> true flyting became obsolete in Scottish literature after the Middle
> Ages, the tradition itself never died out amongst writers of Celtic
> background. The style and language of Robert Burnss To a Louse (Ye
> ugly, creeping, blastit wonner / Detested, shunnd by saunt an
> sinner) parodies earlier Scots flyting and James Joyces poem The
> Holy Office is a bards curse on the society that spurns him.
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> Examples of true flyting are The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie (The
> poets William Dunbar and Walter Kennedy) and The Flyting betwixt
> Montgomerie and Polwart (the poets Alexander Montgomerie and Sir
> Patrick Hume of Polwarth. </q> Encyclopaedia Britannica 2002
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> Warm regards
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Not only has Hermit been given such ops powers, but he has clearly
abused them.
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