XPost: alt.arts.poetry.comments, alt.arts.poetry

On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:09:01 +0000, W.Dockery wrote:

On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 13:50:34 +0000, George J. Dance wrote:

On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 0:42:26 +0000, Michael Monkey Peabrain aka
"HarryLime" wrote:

On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 21:49:09 +0000, NancyGene forged:

LIKE SHIT THEY DON’T
by George Dance (in the style of George Dance)

Like shit they don't,
asshole.
NastyGoon is two proper woman,
who don't appreciate
fucking profanity
from
goddamn motherfuckers.

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Now that's more like it!

See that, George? When you write something good, I'm the first to
acknowledge it.

Sorry to break it to you, HarryLiar, but you were apparently taken in by
a forger.

Harry aka Pendragon falls for these imposter troll posts so often.
<Forgery and impersonation of George Dance flagged and noted>

I'm sorry if my use of the term "forgery" led you astray, Will. I wasn't talking about what's called "forgery" on usenet. That would be posting
to Usenet using not only my name but my email address; as distinct from impersonation or "frogery", which would be posting using a variant of my
name and/or my name but a different email address). That's not allowed
on NovaBBS, and AFAIK no one's doing that to me on NovaBBS.

I was talking about the older term, literary forgery, that that Usenet
term came from. Literary forgery is sort of the opposite of plagiarism:
it's writing a poem and signing someone else's name to it. The most
famous example in poetry circles would be Thomas Chatterton, but there
are other examples just as famous in there day; one is George Ireland,
who was briefly famous for writing a play which he attempted to pass off
as a "lost play by Shakespeare."

I certainly think that NastyGoon's found poem above looks like forgery.
Despite NG's claim that they never called it a poem, it certainly looks
to me (and I think it looks to anyone else reading it) that NastyGoon is posting a poem that I had written). Literary forgery is not policed on
NovaBBS, for a very good reason; they simply don't have the resources to
police it. So all I can do is flag it, and make sure that readers know
that this is a poem by NastyGoon, not one by me that NG discovered in
the archives.

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