New Mod

Mr. Haskins - do you know how many people you've made happy today? You must hate that. There's a poem in there I'm sure.

Mac - I feel the same way - think we should start a Bad Poet Rising Thread in there? Or will Haskins ban us?

Welcome!

Whoo-Hoo! Par-dee! Par-dee!

Thank you to Alphabet for trying to keep us unruly poets in line!
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Wow! First, thanks to Alphabet for all of your hard work, and encouragement.

And second, congratulations to William! I can't think of a more fun person on the boards, and look forward to seeing your contributions.

Alphabet - you've done a great job. PLEASE don't say you're leaving completely!


William's back?!?!? (be still my beating heart....)
::::dancing on tippy toes:::::


Lalalala - sometimes good things *do* happen...lalalalalala....

Welcome, William!!

I can REALLY crash this place... by posting my poetry here.

Hi Jill....

Is this a joke or is it for real????

rhymegirl said:

Is this a joke or is it for real????

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part of the condition of my parole is community service. my lawyers argued that an online community meets all of the criteria, except for body odor and requiring to bring a snack tray, that defines a physical community. after some expert legal wrangling, i was freed to return and do good deeds for my fellow poets.

with programs like this, i may never kill again.

Unfortunately I no longer am able to make the commitment that moderating the forum (to the standard it deserves) would require of me. I really did enjoy the experience while it was possible for me, and I'm so glad of all the people that from time to time told me I was doing a good job of it. Jenna can probably tell you I was very doubtful I'd be any good at all when first asked.

A warm welcome back to William Haskins from me, and congratulations too. I really missed your participation and was so pleased to see you starting once more to get involved. I hoped the critique room would make a difference and I think it has.

William Haskins gave me my first ever rep point at AW and can therefore do no wrong or something like that. He also happens to be a talented poet and a wonderful human being (although admittedly that isn't unique on the board (and no, I don't mean that isn't Unique - lol)).

I'm really not sure how involved I will stay in a practical sense, it is what time will tell and more importantly what time will allow, but I certainly wish everyone the very best in their poetic life and careers and in every other respect too.

We really should have a hall of blame - I'd be responsible for two months of it. Only we'd know how many memories that really was.

I wanted
To write poems - once
Now I am
afraid



Welcome, Haskins. Good luck.

Welcome back, William. We've missed you.

Congrats on your new job here!

And thank you, Alphabet for doing such a great job for us as mod!

William, it's great to see you're back; particularly after seeing your face!

(Sorry ... couldn't resist ... I remembered that line from some insult book I read once.)

Thank you Alphabet, for all your hard work. Please stick around; we all enjoy reading your posts!

Glad you are back William--I might even post one of my poems for you to tear a part!

Oh, Alphabet, I'm going to miss you. I know I speak for others when I say how much I appreciated your feedback. Busy or not, you seemed to always be there when I asked for help. And as one of the winners of the first Worst Poetry Competitions, I want to thank you for keeping things hopping.

William, we've really missed you here on the poetry forum. Now we've got you for sure. Terrific.

Cassie

You did a great job in poetry, Alphabet.

Welcome back, William. I'm happy you've come back and happier that you're heading up the poetry forum. I know you'll do a wonderful job. Might even encourage me to dig out some of my old poems again. LOL

William, the poetry forum could not be in better hands.

You will be pleased to know that I also do not inflict my poetry on the public-at-large, but stick mainly to prose. I do, however, look on all the truly talented poets with a sense of awe.

Best of luck, everyone.

That's great news, William. Sure glad you're back and bet you'll be in rare form with all that time away. *smilie would have been inserted here, but William doesn't want those.*

Alphabet, you did a really great job as Poetry Mod. and so hope we'll still see you 'round the boards.

(Trumpet Blowing)

Yey! You were sincerely missed dear Haskins.

Thanks to Alphabet for her encouragenment and feedback..much appretiated.
Looking forward to meeting you William.

Hmmmm.....

This move has not only raised a lot of questions in my mind, but has made my conspiracymeter hit the red zone with a vengeance.

I first noticed that Alphabet's name wasn't listed as the Poetry Mod a few days ago and wondered to myself: "Myself, just what exactly is going on over there?"

If only I'd acted on my suspicions then. As we all know, to our immense sorrow, it's too late now.

What happened, I wonder. Obviously there must've been an intense behind-the-scenes power struggle. Of course we probably won't ever find out the whole sordid story but I imagine there must've been some serious ballot tampering. Bribery. Extortion.

I mean - C'mon! Haskins mysteriously disappears for a few weeks and then Bam! out of the blue, he pops up holding the reins of power? COUP D'ETAT, people!

Jeez, it's obvious that he had this planned for a very, very long time. First he gets rid of Wordsoup (nobody's heard from her in forever), then when Alphabet is unexpectedly installed in office, Haskins plots behind the scenes for her demise. Of course, he had to make sure he wasn't around when the axe fell so he "went away."

Yeah, perfect alibi.

And isn't it so coincidental that Jenna goes away to Disneyland and comes back and props up this whole false Haskins regime as one of her first acts back in the office? Obviously she had a run-in with one of Haskins' goons down there. I wouldn't be surprised if she had an encounter with the bastard himself! Didn't she say she met Goofy? (Or was it Daffy?)

Ha! What other evidence do you need?! I always suspected that he operated from some evil and distorted place - what better than Disneyland?

I don't know about anybody else, but I'm gonna be keeping a very close eye on this forum.

Watch out, kiddies. This is just the beginning....

It's all so well worked out, I hate to... but no, no strings on me.

If I'd realised my going would have brought about Haskins return, though, I could have gone sooner - sorry about that, Haskins! (and everyone else)

But maybe it wouldn't have. Maybe just now was the only going time that could have got Haskins back - how wonderful is that?