[Newspoetry] Newspoetry Begins Rolling Blackouts

Mike Lehman rebelmike at earthlink.net
Wed Jan 17 23:41:43 CST 2001


Esteemed Almighty Editor,
If that happens, I quit.
Mike

Joe Futrelle wrote:
> 
> The Web (Associated Poets)
> 
> Ones of Netizens found themselves without poetry today as poetry
> supplier Newspoetry-Schneertz Inc. began instituting rolling blackouts
> across selected coverage areas.
SNIP ><><><
> Fortunately, President-elect George W. Bush has offered a plan to save
> Newspoetry which has gained widespread unanimous grass-roots
> septuapartisan support among a small elite class of his cronies and is
> therefore an inevitability.  The plan calls to sell Newspoetry to
> DisneyAOLTimeWarner which will: encrust the daily newspoem in several
> layers of navigation menus jam-packed with blinking banner ads for
> Nike, the Army ("An Army of One!"), Nabisco, and Pfizer; edit all
> Newspoetry content for "family-friendliness"; and charge a $29.99/mo
> access fee.




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