Re: A.A.P.C. FOLKLORE, Part Thirty-Four
[email protected] (NancyGene)
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> HarryLime wrote:
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>> NancyGene wrote:
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>>> HarryLime wrote:
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>>>> NancyGene wrote:
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>>>>> HarryLime wrote:
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>>>>>> Bruce wrote:
>>>>>> BiteMeSharpEnt wrote:
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>>>>>>> HarryLime wrote:
>>>>>>> MICHAEL MALEFICA PENDRAGON.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> (A.k.a. Michelangelo Scarlotti, HarryLime, et al.)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Michael Pendragon is a small press writer/publisher, who is best known
>>>>>>> for having published "Penny Dreadful: Tales & Poems of Fantastic
>>>>>>> Terror" in the late 1990s/early 2000s.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Pendragon joined A.A.P.C. in 2012 or so, and initially befriended Will
>>>>>>> Donkey and George J. Dunce ("The Dunce Gang") who were getting their
>>>>>>> a**es handed to them on a daily basis in an ongoing flame war with PJR
>>>>>>> and his friends from Alt.Usenet.Kooks, and who were derisively
>>>>>>> dismissed or ignored by the other A.A.P.C. members (which he assumed
>>>>>>> was due to intellectual snobbery on their part).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> He later learned that the reason everyone hated George J. Dunce and
>>>>>>> Will Donkey was because they were a literary thief and a
>>>>>>> self-infatuated troll who had teamed up against what they had
>>>>>>> perceived to be a common enemy.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Shortly after the infamous Steak Dinner Scam, Pendragon severed all
>>>>>>> ties to "The Dunce Gang." View as a traitor by his former friends,
>>>>>>> Pendragon went on to become one of Will Donkey and George Dunce's main
>>>>>>> antagonists.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> He famously rid the group of The Late Unlamented Stephen Pickles
>>>>>>> Pickering by successfully placing a lethal curse on him.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Pendragon currently publishes "A Year of Sundays," which was inspired
>>>>>>> by the A.A.P.C. "Sunday Sampler."
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I came for the poetry. Judging by the group’s photos, Chris Hansen came
>>>>>>> for everyone else.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> View the attachments for this post at:
>>>>>>> http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=709612919#709612919
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That sh*t takes forever to load. JLA apparently needs more bandwidth.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hey Dockery, ask your master MummyChunk bot to upgrade it.
>>>>>
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>>>>> JLA was running at a snail's pace for the past couple of days. I thought it was my computer, but apparently it was just JLA.
>>>>>
>>>>> It seems much better this morning.
>>>>
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>>>> "I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny... and I say Michael Pendragon's poems now, Michael Pendragon's poems tomorrow, Michael Pendragon's poems forever!" --George Wallace
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>>> My sincere thanks to Mr. Wallace. I'm glad to discover that some people in the "Deep South" are literate.
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>>> Having spent years interacting with Will Donkey and his friends, I was beginning to have my doubts that any existed.
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>> "The education of a man is never completed until he reads the works of Michael Pendragon." -- Robert E. Lee
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>> “I'll think of Michael Pendragon tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get Michael Pendragon back. After all, tomorrow is another day.” ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
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> The South has risen again! At least in my estimation.
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> "The heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire -- to read the poetry of Michael Pendragon." -- Carson McCullers
"My mama always said, 'Michael Pendragon was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.'" " Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump, Forrest Gump (1994)
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