Sydney Phillips, yes, it was! I’m guessing that the poem may have been based on the orphan trains that brought orphaned children out west to be taken in by families.
Ray C, no, the naughty little girl is my beloved niece, Rhoda. She let me borrow him for a while.
JanCinVV, I always loved this poem, too. I liked the
Gobble-uns getting the naughty kids!
The files saying it WAS built (along with the accountants who were investigating the missing trillions from the Pentagon budget) were probably contained in the section of the Pentagon that was reinforced and then destroyed by who knows what on 9/11.
As “pschearer” remarked yesterday - a great job of building suspense. Warbucks and Grimm were last seen at the underground site 2 weeks ago, then we were taken off on two related themes, and we waited. It was all achieved in elegant style
So different over at Dick Tracy where suspense irritatingly takes the form of repetition or extreme delay in getting to the point.
Those who have read Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Tarzan novels would have recieved an excellent lesson on how it could be interestingly achieved. He’d have two connected stories going at the same time. At the end of Chapter 1 you had to wait for Chapter 3 to find out what happened to the cliff hanger in one.Same thing over in 2. Another tense situation, not resolved or returned to and until we were into Chapter 4.
And so he’d alternate this focus throughout the book, chapter after chapter. Occasionaly bringing the two stories together, only to seperate them again and repeat the ongoing suspense process until conclusion at story end.
It was a writing style that helped to keep readers glued to the book.
Sydney, that’s how Tolkien did the Lord of the RIngs, also. I can remember being so annoyed when the chapter ended and he picked up another thread, but then getting deeply into the progress of that thread until he ended that chapter to yet more annoyance. But it was a “good” annoyance. Suspense. Like the old movie serials.
Three cheers for WISE “security” thinking, if that’s what emerges in the Annie strip
Now the President of a different persuasion can USE it in an emergency, IF… his - “Peace in our time”, White Flag, TALK strategies fail !
It’s like the game of Bridge, every time you win a trick that way, the other guy who only respects the STRENGTH in your HAND, will likely USE his “trumps” and win three !
I’m NOT sure the other side wants peace, although they may want a big piece of Annie’s America !
Antigonish [I met a man who wasn’t there]by Hughes Mearns
Yesterday, upon the stair,I met a man who wasn’t thereHe wasn’t there again todayI wish, I wish he’d go away…
When I came home last night at threeThe man was waiting there for meBut when I looked around the hallI couldn’t see him there at all!Go away, go away, don’t you come back any more!Go away, go away, and please don’t slam the door… (slam!)
Last night I saw upon the stairA little man who wasn’t thereHe wasn’t there again todayOh, how I wish he’d go away…
margueritem almost 15 years ago
More mystery…
margueritem almost 15 years ago
Sydney Phillips, yes, it was! I’m guessing that the poem may have been based on the orphan trains that brought orphaned children out west to be taken in by families.
Ray C, no, the naughty little girl is my beloved niece, Rhoda. She let me borrow him for a while.
JanCinVV, I always loved this poem, too. I liked the Gobble-uns getting the naughty kids!
margueritem almost 15 years ago
Sydney Phillips, I think Liam must have ‘spanked’ mph, for he certainly changed his threatening tone…
ARF2 almost 15 years ago
Never built? Your Blue Circle dollars at work? Or something completely different?
Fred_Basset_fan almost 15 years ago
The files saying it WAS built (along with the accountants who were investigating the missing trillions from the Pentagon budget) were probably contained in the section of the Pentagon that was reinforced and then destroyed by who knows what on 9/11.
sydney almost 15 years ago
As “pschearer” remarked yesterday - a great job of building suspense. Warbucks and Grimm were last seen at the underground site 2 weeks ago, then we were taken off on two related themes, and we waited. It was all achieved in elegant style
So different over at Dick Tracy where suspense irritatingly takes the form of repetition or extreme delay in getting to the point.
Those who have read Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Tarzan novels would have recieved an excellent lesson on how it could be interestingly achieved. He’d have two connected stories going at the same time. At the end of Chapter 1 you had to wait for Chapter 3 to find out what happened to the cliff hanger in one.Same thing over in 2. Another tense situation, not resolved or returned to and until we were into Chapter 4.
And so he’d alternate this focus throughout the book, chapter after chapter. Occasionaly bringing the two stories together, only to seperate them again and repeat the ongoing suspense process until conclusion at story end.
It was a writing style that helped to keep readers glued to the book.
Ray_C almost 15 years ago
Sydney, that’s how Tolkien did the Lord of the RIngs, also. I can remember being so annoyed when the chapter ended and he picked up another thread, but then getting deeply into the progress of that thread until he ended that chapter to yet more annoyance. But it was a “good” annoyance. Suspense. Like the old movie serials.
sydney almost 15 years ago
Three cheers for WISE “security” thinking, if that’s what emerges in the Annie strip
Now the President of a different persuasion can USE it in an emergency, IF… his - “Peace in our time”, White Flag, TALK strategies fail !
It’s like the game of Bridge, every time you win a trick that way, the other guy who only respects the STRENGTH in your HAND, will likely USE his “trumps” and win three !
I’m NOT sure the other side wants peace, although they may want a big piece of Annie’s America !
mrprongs almost 15 years ago
What if they put up a fake vent and hatch, and absconded with the cash? One lowly worker not included left a hidden clue that ti was never built.
davidf42 almost 6 years ago
Morning, Anniephans!
Ronald Hathcock Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Antigonish [I met a man who wasn’t there]by Hughes Mearns
Yesterday, upon the stair,I met a man who wasn’t thereHe wasn’t there again todayI wish, I wish he’d go away…
When I came home last night at threeThe man was waiting there for meBut when I looked around the hallI couldn’t see him there at all!Go away, go away, don’t you come back any more!Go away, go away, and please don’t slam the door… (slam!)
Last night I saw upon the stairA little man who wasn’t thereHe wasn’t there again todayOh, how I wish he’d go away…