Why so coy?
#1
....with your profiles?

A handful have full, entertaining details. The majority have the bare minimum. Do you disclose your gender? Not a bit of it --we all know where that leads! Yet, in your first or second post, you sign off as Lucretia, or Greg. As for country -well, s'obvious you'd be tracked down before you'd finished your first sonnet, right? Like in those ghost films where hubby goes off, leaving wifey trailing around a creaking house in her nighty? But then, out slips a spelling giveaway, or casual reference to Michigan.

Laziness? Prudence? Mighty inconvenient for those of us of the nose-poking persuasion. Explain! Smile
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#2
i always wondered why everyone doesn't just lie in them

"i'm a bachelor of science with a degree in english lit, language and metaphysics.
i studied under walt whitman and abe ginsberg who were year heads at my university.
i've won 17 writing competitions and have been in print 84 times."

oh thats right lots of the do Huh

i have no idea what's in my profile but i'll take a look later Big Grin

Sex: Undisclosed

i don't see the point in telling people if i've had sex or not
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(11-06-2013, 09:14 AM)abu nuwas Wrote:  ....with your profiles?

A handful have full, entertaining details. The majority have the bare minimum. Do you disclose your gender? Not a bit of it --we all know where that leads! Yet, in your first or second post, you sign off as Lucretia, or Greg. As for country -well, s'obvious you'd be tracked down before you'd finished your first sonnet, right? Like in those ghost films where hubby goes off, leaving wifey trailing around a creaking house in her nighty? But then, out slips a spelling giveaway, or casual reference to Michigan.

Laziness? Prudence? Mighty inconvenient for those of us of the nose-poking persuasion. Explain! Smile

I try.to do all.character.development through dialogue and action.
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(11-06-2013, 09:14 AM)abu nuwas Wrote:  ....with your profiles?

A handful have full, entertaining details. The majority have the bare minimum. Do you disclose your gender? Not a bit of it --we all know where that leads! Yet, in your first or second post, you sign off as Lucretia, or Greg. As for country -well, s'obvious you'd be tracked down before you'd finished your first sonnet, right? Like in those ghost films where hubby goes off, leaving wifey trailing around a creaking house in her nighty? But then, out slips a spelling giveaway, or casual reference to Michigan.

Laziness? Prudence? Mighty inconvenient for those of us of the nose-poking persuasion. Explain! Smile

Okay, nice job on yours, I'm off to do mine.
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#5
Wink School o' life, mate. Sex: Not known

(11-06-2013, 10:05 AM)milo Wrote:  
(11-06-2013, 09:14 AM)abu nuwas Wrote:  ....with your profiles?

A handful have full, entertaining details. The majority have the bare minimum. Do you disclose your gender? Not a bit of it --we all know where that leads! Yet, in your first or second post, you sign off as Lucretia, or Greg. As for country -well, s'obvious you'd be tracked down before you'd finished your first sonnet, right? Like in those ghost films where hubby goes off, leaving wifey trailing around a creaking house in her nighty? But then, out slips a spelling giveaway, or casual reference to Michigan.

Laziness? Prudence? Mighty inconvenient for those of us of the nose-poking persuasion. Explain! Smile

I try.to do all.character.development through dialogue and action.

Milo,

Fair go. After all, you, as author of your bo, might write 'Sex: Male' and I, as reader might think that meant you were a sky-scraper.....Wink
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(11-06-2013, 10:15 AM)abu nuwas Wrote:  Wink School o' life, mate. Sex: Not known

(11-06-2013, 10:05 AM)milo Wrote:  
(11-06-2013, 09:14 AM)abu nuwas Wrote:  ....with your profiles?

A handful have full, entertaining details. The majority have the bare minimum. Do you disclose your gender? Not a bit of it --we all know where that leads! Yet, in your first or second post, you sign off as Lucretia, or Greg. As for country -well, s'obvious you'd be tracked down before you'd finished your first sonnet, right? Like in those ghost films where hubby goes off, leaving wifey trailing around a creaking house in her nighty? But then, out slips a spelling giveaway, or casual reference to Michigan.

Laziness? Prudence? Mighty inconvenient for those of us of the nose-poking persuasion. Explain! Smile

I try.to do all.character.development through dialogue and action.

Milo,

Fair go. After all, you, as author of your bo, might write 'Sex: Male' and I, as reader might think that meant you were a sky-scraper.....Wink

The bond between writer and reader is fickle.at best. Alternatively I might put sex:female depending on which way the coin landed that day which would just confuse the reader.
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#7
What is it you'd like to know?
The secret of poetry is cruelty.--Jon Anderson
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(11-06-2013, 10:08 AM)ellajam Wrote:  
(11-06-2013, 09:14 AM)abu nuwas Wrote:  ....with your profiles?

A handful have full, entertaining details. The majority have the bare minimum. Do you disclose your gender? Not a bit of it --we all know where that leads! Yet, in your first or second post, you sign off as Lucretia, or Greg. As for country -well, s'obvious you'd be tracked down before you'd finished your first sonnet, right? Like in those ghost films where hubby goes off, leaving wifey trailing around a creaking house in her nighty? But then, out slips a spelling giveaway, or casual reference to Michigan.

Laziness? Prudence? Mighty inconvenient for those of us of the nose-poking persuasion. Explain! Smile

Okay, nice job on yours, I'm off to do mine.

So it seems you were raised in ny during the roaring '20 s. Cool. Sorry about the great depression and all that.

(11-06-2013, 11:45 AM)Todd Wrote:  What is it you'd like to know?

Obviously we all want to know the same thing, todd:






What kind of beer is in that mug?
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#9
i'll fill mine in tomorrow :J:
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(11-06-2013, 03:25 PM)milo Wrote:  So it seems you were raised in ny during the roaring '20 s. Cool. Sorry about the great depression and all that.

Dayum, I look good for 100. Big Grin

Actually, you're a little off, my portrait was done by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in 1910, if I remember correctly. Time's a slippery sucker.
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#11
I appreciate your bio Ella. It's very well done.

I have no idea where to start with mine (which is usually why it remains stillborn).
The secret of poetry is cruelty.--Jon Anderson
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(11-06-2013, 10:32 PM)Todd Wrote:  I appreciate your bio Ella. It's very well done.

I have no idea where to start with mine (which is usually why it remains stillborn).

Thanks, Todd, glad you enjoyed it, but remember, it's a forum profile. It's not carved in stone, that delete button is always available. I could be born somewhere else tomorrow. Wink

Go for it, Abu is bored with our poems and needs a new outlet.Big Grin
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#13
I'm not shy. My Bio is complete. Should I elaborate further?
My new watercolor: 'Nightmare After Christmas'/Chris
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#14
Okay, I gave it a shot. I doubt it tells you much more than you may have guessed at anyway reading the weird crap I post.
The secret of poetry is cruelty.--Jon Anderson
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(11-07-2013, 12:04 AM)Todd Wrote:  Okay, I gave it a shot. I doubt it tells you much more than you may have guessed at anyway reading the weird crap I post.

made me smile.
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#16
There are already bios on all the mods in the meet the staff thread.
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#17
Ok I'm In,
Here is my mug and two cents
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#18
(11-07-2013, 12:18 AM)milo Wrote:  There are already bios on all the mods in the meet the staff thread.
Good point, here's yours for instance:

Does Milo write this bio in the third person? Milo does enjoy writing about himself in the third person. Excuse milo, he is off to eat more butterflies.

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What does a Monarch butterfly taste like?
The secret of poetry is cruelty.--Jon Anderson
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(11-07-2013, 12:34 AM)Todd Wrote:  
(11-07-2013, 12:18 AM)milo Wrote:  There are already bios on all the mods in the meet the staff thread.

Good point, here's yours for instance:

Does Milo write this bio in the third person? Milo does enjoy writing about himself in the third person. Excuse milo, he is off to eat more butterflies.

~~~

What does a Monarch butterfly taste like?

Like a meal fit for a king.Big Grin
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#20
Laziness?
...laziness...

I might get around to doing it later Smile
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!
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