JUDGE'S ALERT

[Terry]

G/day Neville,
I sometimes wonder why I bother getting involved in these discussions, I thought I was bringing up a point worthy of mention, it was certainly nothing to do about winning - or losing for that matter.

I enter far fewer competitions than some others who visit this site, I've entered a few more recently because there have been a number new ones starting of, so like others I entered a poem or two just to support a new comp.

As for winning I guess I'm like everyone else who enters a comp, you don't expect you will win anything but secretly hope you might and are quite excited if you do.

Cheers Terry

[David Campbell]

Your point was perfectly valid, Terry. Obscure terms can pose problems for judges (although I do know about 'slurry'), particularly when we're also having to watch out for words that have been used incorrectly. I recently had to query an expression I'd never heard of, one where the internet wasn't much help. Fortunately, it wasn't in a competition context, so I was able to check with the writer and found that it was a common family saying, but little-known elsewhere. If it had been in a competition I wouldn't have had a clue!

As for Neville's argument, I guess that means Glenny and I are wasting our time. All the best bush poets must be ending up in our reject piles while we reward the soon-to-be-forgotten duds.

Although up against Neville's famous artists I'd put names like Steinbeck, Sartre, Pasternak, Camus, Hemingway, Faulkner, Eliot, White, Bellow, Marquez, Shaw, and Yeats. Why? They all won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

David

[Terry]

Thanks David,
It's easy to get side tracked isn't it; where the point you were trying to make gets unintentionally lost along the way sometimes.

In Fairness perhaps my example wasn't the best and as mentioned I ended up messing up reasonable line thinking I might be helping someone in the future - suffice to say the line is now back to how it was originally, so look out judges it just might show up again somewhere.

Cheers Terry

[Glenny Palmer]

Hey Terry. I think you bother to get into these discussions because you care...nice.

[Stephen Whiteside]

Sorry if I upset you, Terry. I didn't mean to.

[Terry]

Thanks Glenny,

No Stephen not really upset, perhaps a little disappointed that you might think I'm only worried about winning, but nothing more.

Cheers Terry

[Stephen Whiteside]

Again, I don't mean any offence, but I don't quite get it, to be honest. Why would you worry about confusing a judge for any other reason?

[Neville Briggs]

Well David, Terry Glenny, I didn't mean any offence or to suggest judges were wasting their time. Please accept my apologies for foolish waffle.

Anyway, I'll say no more. I shouldn't say anything because I won't be going in any bush poetry writing comps.

[Glenny Palmer]

Aww cripes! I can't remember most of this anyway mates...(I'm flat out remembering my own address lately ) This form of communication is a sitter for these types of 'wanderings' as it is purely one dimensional. With something like 75% of all communication being non verbal I'm not in the least surprised that we (occasionally) get tumbled along in these tangents. It's all good. We are all good mates, & the funny thing is that whenever the posts slide into oblivion we have a chuckle about them....then. Chins up. Pencils sharpened. All aboard for the next departure to the moon....

[Stephen Whiteside]

Well said, Glenny. Thanks.