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[email protected] (NancyGene) wrote in news:
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On Tue, 3 Jun 2025 23:16:04 +0000, cujodemaniac wrote:
Mooched cheap steak dinners, complete with hoof!
Eaten by douchebags with a tarp for a roof.
Plate filled with mystery meat, redolent with grease,
The Freeloader just sits - fat and obese.
The steak is a tough beast, it might not be cow,
Chewy as rubber bands, and three times as foul.
He savors each morsel with a slobbering leer,
As if shitkicker heaven was lurking quite near.
To the cheap diner’s swill, he proudly will cling,
A king of the losers, it must be a thing!
So get off your fat ass, let’s toast to the night,
To this steak-mooching douchebag, a freeloading blight.
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Yes, this is the kind of poem that wins prizes! Cujo, were you in our doctoral poetry writing classes?
Our only suggestion would be, to avoid the inversion in the first line
of the 3rd stanza, to say:
"He proudly will cling to the cheap diner's swill
A king of the losers, it's carnivore Will"
PS: Do you have the guitar from "Back to the Future?"
I'll start backwards, this appears to be an ES-345 Gibson semi-hollow.
Gibson guitars are wildly overprices and their quality went W-A-A-A-A-Y downhill over the last 25 years. That's an older model, I think that
came from the Kalamazoo factory. This was later bought out but the
artisans and workers and renamed Heritage when Gibson shifted to
Nashville.
The problem I had with Gibson guitars is that their neck design which
has a well known issue wiith the headstocks snapping when dropped. The
repair is expensive since you can't replace the neck.
I had a Gresch center block that was similar and also had a "set neck"
but the neck construction was a scarf joint near the headstock, But the
Gretsch but didn't have the extreme angle that Gibsons do and had a
volute to reinforce it.
I have a Les Paul made but by another manufacturer (ESP) with a scarf
joint. It's also one third the price, better pickups and I added a
Babicz bridge. ESP is renowned for the quality. So much so, I got a "B"
stock for a hefty discount and still cannot see what was wrong with it.
https://www.musiciansfriend.com/guitars/esp-ltd-deluxe-ec-1000-electric-g uitar/516629000011000
My other electric guitars are bolt on necks and can be replaced easily.
But they don't suffer from the headstock snapping issue. Nor do my
acoustics.
Given the quality of Gibsons even currently, it's likely if I ever get
one it will be to rescue, refurbish and resell.
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Now on to the POMES!
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Freeloading for Three - A Pome by The Mighty Cujo
Mooched cheap steak dinners, complete with hoof!
Eaten by douchebags with a tarp for a roof.
Plate filled with mystery meat, redolent with grease,
Freeloading a meal - fat and obese.
The steak is a tough beast, it might not be cow,
Chewy as rubber bands, and three times as foul.
He savors each morsel with a slobbering leer,
As if shitkicker heaven was lurking quite near.
He proudly will slurp up the cheap diner's swill
A king of the losers, it's Old Douchebag Will.
So get off your fat ass, let's toast to the night,
To this meal-mooching douchebag, a freeloading blight.
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Thanks again for the suggestion.
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