Something new, fascinating and profound

[Stephen Whiteside]

I would love to start a thread here with something new, profound and fascinating to say about poetry, but I feel it has all been said - and many times.

Having said that, it does occur to me that we are always having General Poetry discussions. We never have Field Marshall Poetry discussions. Then again, we could always work our way down through the COs and NCOs until we had Private Poetry discussions. This would have the great advantage of alliteration, but the enormous disadvantage that, if the discussions were taking place in public, as they would have to be, of course, they would no longer be Private.

Hmm. Life is so tricky sometimes...

[Neville Briggs]

FIRE AT WILL !!!!!

[Bob Pacey]

Ya bloody nong Stephen


Bob

[Heather]

Have another drink Stephen.

[william williams]

NOW NOW Neville how dare you put me up against the firing squad

please Mr Abbot I don't wanna go

[warooa]

I often wonder if there are pangs of envy felt towards the much more popular General Chit Chat. Did they come through the ranks together?

At ease

[Stephen Whiteside]

Not sure, Marty, but I suspect they both spend far too much time drinking, smoking, and reflecting on past (largely imagined…) glories.

[Neville Briggs]

It's traditional for retired generals to seek political preferment, president if they can ( Caesar, Titus, Cromwell, Wellington, Washington, Grant, Eisenhower, de Gaulle et al) in Australia the Governor General is a former army general.

[warooa]

Yeees, reminiscing about when General ChitChat was seen as a bit of a Joke, before General Poetry started looking resplendent in those significant threads . . .

[Stephen Whiteside]

ChitChat is Haig to Poetry's Monash I think, Marty.