<Gives Purpura a hand>

Erato, lounging by a spring in her Olympic splendor
Received a message from Azan, by turtle dove he sent her
A most heartfelt entreaty, in which he wrote “Dear Mother,
They are abusing your great gift to outdo one another.

For Poetry the times are bad, the standards all have fallen
And angsty black-clothed teenagers now claim it is their callin’
As well as those who foreign are to rules of rhyme and meter,
So please descend and set them straight.” Thuswise he did entreat her.

“Surely he does overstate”, said she, the poet’s Muse
“There’s always been bad poetry—that’s hardly even news”
Still from her spring she stirred herself to see if he spoke sooth,
She cloaked herself from mortal eyes and sought to find the truth.

No sooner from Olympus onto earth had she arrived
Than torrents of bad poetry into her spirit knived.
Omphaloskepsis by the ton from self-obsessive twits
And random words passed off as verse by self-deluded gits.

Amidst the flood there were, she found, a few real poets there
Who battled ‘gainst the rising tide despite growing despair
Immovable as Spartans, they weathered fashion’s scorn
Treasuring Erato’s gift, bestowed when they were born.

“My faithful few, my champions, you will be well rewarded
And honors denied unto you now will one day be accorded.
As for the rest, such logorrhea makes my spirit woozy
But modern tech has just the cure.  Someone hand me an Uzi.”

It was a joke.

More like a wise crack.

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I am no longer allowed to enchant the word "communist" to Barack Obama's forehead. Not very politically correct.
 

You know, there's a reason we have a section of the board called Touchy Topics.

Aye, but unless there's a Burger King on the Royal Mile, don't expect him.

I can't remember where exactly, but when I did the touristy thing in London I remember coming up out of the Tube and being greeted with the sight of  a Burger King.  After two weeks of warm drinks, an iced soda was like nectar of the gods.

I'm saying like a person (much like Michael) are using their faith instead of magic to do things. ex. throw fire, teleport, yada yada, etc. lol. The story would lean heavily toward the age-old Good vs. Evil storylines. The only thing different would be more angels, demons, biblical references. I kno this might not appeal to all religions, but I promise it would in no way openly make fun of any other religion.

Kinda goes against the Christian doctrine that we are all miserable sinners and all power comes from God, doesn't it?  Unless you have your protagonist getting his/her power from God, I'm pretty sure that's some form of heresy.  And if you are, where's the suspense if you can just cal on God for sufficient power to accomplish your task?

*Sign here if you want Marvel to hire Jim to write for a Spider-Man arc in the future*

And have to wait longer for new Dresden and Codex Alera as a result?  Screw that!

Jim's post carry special weight here.  Would it be possible to have a special icon that shows when Jim has posted to a thread?  Like maybe his pic instead of Harry's?  For new posts only--once the post is read, it reverts to the standard icon.

Just wishful thinking on my part, perhaps.