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noodles i have some questions for you...who was the first person to call you noodles?.....why do i call you noodles?....do you like noodles?.....what sauce would you have with your noodles?......why i so say noodles like nudeals?.....what is the meaning of noodles?
and one final question for you noodles....what have you got against odles?
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Originally posted by SJ247Verse versus poetry: I have not a [effing -- ed] clue, except that all poetry (in the sense of the competition, but not necessarily in the sense of phrases like "poetic justice", or when Obelix tells Asterix that roses in the helmets of vanquished legionaries are "delicate and poetic" ) is verse, but not necessarily vice versa.
Could you define "verse", for purposes of the competition? I honestly have yet to understand the difference between poetry, prose, verse, and the like.
Verse versus prose: I don't have a well-defined definition, but I think that when a piece of writing derives more than some minimal amount of its aesthetic value from form rather than (in addition to) content, it is verse. I don't know where the minimal value lies, and a sort of converse to this might be a better definition: if a piece of writing has aesthetic value when stripped of its semantic content, it is verse.
Of course, deciding whether a text is verse or prose based on the above is subjective in three ways: different readers have different aesthetic preferences, different readers notice different formal features of text and different readers understand the content of texts in specific ways.
Possibly a good test of verse/non-verse is to speak the text in question to someone who doesn't understand the language, and see if it has any aesthetic value to them. When Regina Spektor sings Pasternak poems in Russian, the words themselves sound beautiful to me, although I don't speak Russian; when my landlady shouts at her kids in Russian, they do not.
Poetry versus prose: I think it's perfectly reasonable to describe prose as poetic (like the part in "Asterix" where Obelix talks about flowers), but for consistency with the first paragraph, we'll take "prose" to mean "non-verse", and, in particular, non-poetry. However, I think prose is sometimes taken to mean something like "poetic non-verse text".
Based on all of that, I'd say the safest breakdown is:
Something is "poetic" if it has high (subjective) aesthetic value. "Verse" and "non-verse" are defined as in the second paragraph. "Poetry" is poetic verse, and"prose" is poetic non-verse. This does the job of separating prose and poetry, which all standard uses of those words require, and associates poetry with verse and prose with, say, the text of a novel, which is also consistent with the usual usage, but other than that it's certain that this post is in none of those categories and likely in the [malarkey -- ed] category.
EDIT For the purposes of the competition, anything goes. You can write a short story and hit enter after each line, and it will automatically become verse, because there will be a little formal conceit. To what extent an entry is poetry is probably a big part of the voting, but not the rules. There have been several verse competitions over the last few years, and no entries have ever been rejected, except for when schachkurghcan'tspellit plagiarised.
Originally posted by trev33Me or rbmorris.
noodles i have some questions for you...who was the first person to call you noodles?.....why do i call you noodles?....do you like noodles?.....what sauce would you have with your noodles?......why i so say noodles like nudeals?.....what is the meaning of noodles?
and one final question for you noodles....what have you got against odles?
Originally posted by trev33Ragnorak, I think. I don't know, probably because you heard (or rather read) others do it. Absolutely! Usually tomato sauce, sometimes with additions like tuna or courgette, but there are lots of other great options. What does that question mean? Noodles are pasta, but if you are wondering why it's my nick, I think that comes from the fact that the correct pronunciation of "Nordlys" somewhat resembles the pronunciation of "noodles".
noodles i have some questions for you...who was the first person to call you noodles?.....why do i call you noodles?....do you like noodles?.....what sauce would you have with your noodles?......why i so say noodles like nudeals?.....what is the meaning of noodles?
and one final question for you noodles....what have you got against odles?
What are odles?
Originally posted by NordlysTop Raman, Oodles of Noodles... soup.
Ragnorak, I think. I don't know, probably because you heard (or rather read) others do it. Absolutely! Usually tomato sauce, sometimes with additions like tuna or courgette, but there are lots of other great options. What does that question mean? Noodles are pasta, but if you are wondering why it's my nick, I think that comes from the fact that the correct p ...[text shortened]... ciation of "Nordlys" somewhat resembles the pronunciation of "noodles".
What are odles?
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Originally posted by trev33It was originally pronounced New Deals, but has since been shortened. It's a reference to her work in the Roosevelt administration, back in the 1930's.
noodles i have some questions for you...who was the first person to call you noodles?.....why do i call you noodles?....do you like noodles?.....what sauce would you have with your noodles?......why i so say noodles like nudeals?.....what is the meaning of noodles?
and one final question for you noodles....what have you got against odles?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal