Re: Will Dockery #1 on PPB chart!

Cujo DeSockpuppet <[email protected]> posted:
> Will Dockery <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]: 
> >>> [email protected] 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-2
> >> >> >>>> 026 .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.

Again, not at all.

Here in America, we were taught how to use quotation marks and
commas (and other grammar) early. 

Like I said, I learned back at Edgewood Elementary School here in Columbus
Georgia, in fact. 

American English grammar, of course.

😏

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