Re: A.A.P.C. FOLKLORE, Part Thirty-Four

> NancyGene wrote:
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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.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> "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.
>>>> 
>>>> 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
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> "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)




"His poetry's the stuff that dreams are made of." -- Sam Spade, 1941. 


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