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

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



"I wish I knew how to quit Michael Pendragon." " Jack Twist (Brokeback Mountain) 


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