Re: Will Dockery #1 on PPB chart!

Cujo DeSockpuppet <[email protected]> posted:
> Will Dockery <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]: 
>> [email protected] (Miguel Sucio) posted:
> >> Will Dockery wrote:
> >>> George J. Dance wrote:
> >>>> Will-Dockery wrote:
> >>>>> George J. Dance wrote:
> >> 
> >>>>> Usenet poet Will Dockery's "Tired of Waiting" took the #1 spot on
> >>>>> Penny's Top 20 of July 2026. The poem netted 989 page views during
> >>>>> that one month, more than twice as many as that received by the #2
> >>>>> poem, "In the High Hills" by Maxwell Struthers Burt.  That was
> >>>>> enough to make "Tired of Waiting" the third Will Dockery poem to
> >>>>> receive more than 1,000 page views. 
> >> >>>> 
> >> >>>> Dockery's "Poem for Kathy" also was hot in July, getting 100
> >> >>>> page views (which gives it about 600 views to date) and
> >> >>>> capturing the #8 spot. 
> >> >>>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2026/08/pennys-top-20-july-2026
> >> >>>> .html 
> >> >>> 
> >> >>> #8;for Kathy's poem is pretty good, also.
> >> >>
> >> >> Sure is; and don't forget that that poem also hit #1 this year,
> >> >> in February. You're having another good year on PPB,
> >> >> well-deserved, too, I might add.
> >> 
> >> > And close to 1,300 comments here on the JLA Forums for Kathy's
> >> > poem. 
> >> 
> >> Very few of those posts are actually about the poem. You spotted what
> >> you imagined was a misplaced comma, latched onto it like you'd
> >> finally discovered the Holy Grail of grammar 
> > 
> > Not at all.
> > 
> > Here in America, we were taught how to use quotation marks and commas
> > early. 
> > 
> > I learned back at Edgewood Elementary School here in Columbus Georgia,
> > in fact. 
> 
> No

Apparently I did.

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