Bill, I do believe that editors are friends to writers and poets.

If it is the London Bridge, I'll buy it. It should never have been relocated.

http://www.golakehavasu.com/!userfil...don-bridge.jpg

If it is the Navajo River Bridge I wish someone would buy it, because it is a monstrosity.

http://www.turnasure.com/images/proj...dge-navajo.jpg

Pax.

Janice,

The good ones are, I agree. I've met some truly fine people this way, whose friendships I value. But there have been others...

The joke here is that he thought he was buying the Tower Bridge, which would have been worth transporting. Instead he got London Bridge, which wasn't even the one in the song. He denied his error, of course, like one of those movie characters who says "I meant to do that...", and his broker covered for him. But it just fits so well into the narrative of the rich, naive, ignorant American. Part of me wants to believe he really just got it completely wrong, and decided he'd go ahead and install the bridge anyway. Wish I could have been there when he realized mistake... the look on his face would have been priceless! ;)

Best,

Bill

I gather from this thread that although D & A is a forum where we can post our own stuff it is not automatically code-protected like the other four?

There may be some people who don't like their draft competition attempts plastered over the web, but it is not clear whether applying the code to anything but the first entry on the first page (normally made by one of the moderators) or the first entry on any subsequent pages has any effect?

It is indeed London Bridge. The present bridge is the third. The first is the famous one. The one people want is Tower Bridge but it isn't for sale. Yet.

Depends on what level the code operates, if the application is on the level above, algorithmically speaking, the programmer just writes a new logical operator and the code is redundant. Maybe if the competition had a cash prize worth $30,000 a gang might swamp the comp with stolen poems, it's possible, but unlikely, they hack accounts for small amounts, as little as $20 , the hacker may be a 12 yr in Gdansk, the leader of the gang may be a 14 yr old and they may target as many sites as they can code for.
The encryption on the Sphere is no doubt great, I wouldn't be worried but if money's involved beware.

Tower Bridge wasn't for sale last month? Sealed bids, with $25,000 refundable "good faith" deposit forwarded to an escrow account in the Royal Bank of the Bahamas? Uh oh.

Pfizer have asked for it to be added on as an amuse-gueule if (when?) they swallow Astra-Zeneca. Not a lot of people know this and now that I have told you I will have to kill you.

Of course someone could build a facsimile. It would look very well in Las Vegas. Of course they would have to construct a suitable river but, hell, the USA thrives on challenge. And we certainly need the dollars.

Over my dead body will they swallow Astra-Zeneca. I remember when they swallowed our Pharmacia and all the succeeding swallowings and those deliberate lies they told. The pharmaceutical companies history of successive swallowing of little fish by a bigger fish is convoluted and misleading, but a lot of Swedish tax money was handed over to the private market in conjunction with these swallowings.

Bitter medicine for us indeed. And now the predator thinks it is all British and appeals to Cameron to let them have it, please. Aaaaargh!

Probably they will swallow and I will die, but I will curse them from the other side. Which will be difficult since I don't believe in the other side, but it makes me feel better to think of the possibility, just as prayers make people sometimes feel better.

Janice, if you want to reach over from the other side, what you need is a bridge. I just might have the very thing. Let's do lunch...

Coming to this discussion late. Interesting. I was worried when I revised a poem AFTER publication, and it turned into a completely different poem (even though it kept the same title and certain other elements), and it got published in a second journal. Nothing happened. All was fine. So far....

Re: simultaneous submissions. I tend not to do them, but I've been "trained" that way. I actually believe that, in this century, there's no reason whatsoever to NOT submit simultaneously. I'm annoyed by journals that state that they won't consider simultaneous submissions, especially those that don't reply for months or years, or never reply! No one applies for a single job, waits a year, gets a rejection letter (if they're lucky), and then applies for a second job.... Writers need to understand that editors are swamped, but editors also need to understand that writers are waiting, waiting, waiting. Tim Green of Rattle has the right philosophy.

I also get annoyed when journals, in this century, don't take online submissions. But that's another story....