[Janice D. Soderling]

What Chris said (which is what I thought I said, but maybe I wasn't clear enough).

I think Janice was somewhat ambiguous when she said "you aren't actually allowed to "post" until you have done your required number of crit posts". A crit post is, after all, a post, and that would logically suggest that you can't even post a "crit post" until you've posted a certain number of "crit posts", which you can't post until ... but that way madness lies.

True, she was ambiguous. Chalk it up to trying sound nice rather than overweening (bow, bow, scrape, scrape) while worrying about spelling misteaks.

Carry on, Wile. E. guys.

[Brian Allgar]

Phew! That's a relief, Janice. If you'd been in Richard III mode, you might have come back at me with "“Lash hence these overweening rags of France”.

[Carolyn Thomas-Coxhead]

Originally Posted by Brian Allgar

Welcome, Carolyn.

I don't think Janice meant to suggest that there is anything to stop you from posting as much as you like here, on Drills & Amusements, but rather that any posts here will not count towards the number of "criticism" posts that are required before you can post a poem of your own on the "Metrical" or one of the other "serious" threads.

They can be rather a stern lot over there, but we are all sweetness and light, laughter and sunshine, fun and games, and general bonhomie, except when one or other of us fails to win a competition with an entry that he or she knew to be unbeatable - and then you may hear the sound of teeth being gnashed to a pulp, and hair torn out by the roots.

Thanks, Brian; re the teeth and hair problem- perhaps this explains why members don't always post photographs (pace John).

[Douglas G. Brown]

In Wile E. Coyote reality,
The “ACME” name brand
Is unique to the land;
An absolute perfect monopoly.

[Susan d.S.]

In Wile E. Coyote reality,
my shirtsleeves are rolled
(but my jeans sport a fold);
an effort to simulate parity.

In Wile E. Coyote reality,
my forearms grow brawny,
hirsute, somewhat tawny.
My cufflinks--a seldom-seen oddity.

[Brian Allgar]

In Wile E Coyote reality
I’ll win if the lads
Can just dimple some chads,
And to hell with election legality.

[Carolyn Thomas-Coxhead]

Blending two topics here, and I promise I'll do some proper posting.

In Wile E Coyote reality
A Rhyming Dic.'s duff,
For your brain holds enough
Ideas of both wit and banality.

[Brian Allgar]

In non-Wile E Coyote reality,
When you’re counting up shit,
Then you have to add Mitt
He’s a turd of absurd abnormality.