Between Mars and Venus (Article) - 7/31/2007 8:27:38 PM
YOU GO -- GIRL!
Yes, Martians are to blame! Not only for those items you mentioned, but probably many more. Whether rightly, or wrongly, MALES have dominated everything, everywhere, in just about all recorded history.
My best guess is that whoever coined the phrase PMS may have been merely attempting to be "politically correct?" Had HE simply called it the "MONTHLY BITCH CYCLE" -- his WIFE would probably had served him BOILED GONADS for breakfast ... HIS!
You are also correct about MARTIANS experiencing BAD HAIR DAYS also ---but --- MOST GET OVER IT! The ones that don't -- are simply GRUMPY RAT-BASTARDS! AVOID THEM AT ALL COST!
And finally, to my limited knowledge of such a profane topic (he says, tongue-in-cheek) a
BITCH was technically a term applied to a FEMALE DOG IN HEAT... she wanted WHAT she wanted, WHEN she wanted it, and HOW she wanted it... and usually GOT IT!
I was only married for 34 years, but DAMN that sounds familiar!
In current times, especially in BARS, where I shoot pool 3 times a week, it is patently obvious that young women in their early 20's and 30's, use the word BITCH much more frequently than we poor schmucks from MARS do! Whether they are just 'playing' with one another, or seriously DEFAMING another VENUSIAN, because of the "green eyes of ENVY" ... the word is bandied about almost as much as the "F" word, or "MF" or "CS" ...
Bottom line? We Parents and Grandparents have reared a GENERATION of "FOUL-MOUTHS" that would make an old SALT... BLUSH!
If you haven't read my 2 pieces - "PMA or PMS" and "How Do You Make A Hormone?" you might get some more AMMUNITION to consider VENTING! LOL.
PEACE! Tom.
Logical Explanations (Poetry) - 1/28/2015 2:14:46 PM
Cleverly expressed and witty too. Thank you for sharing. Love and peace,
Regis
Jason Gone Again (Poetry) - 11/15/2014 2:53:13 PM
Nicely done! I appreciate the rhyme and rhythm pattern as well. Love and best wishes,
Regis
Jason Gone Again (Poetry) - 2/25/2014 2:07:45 AM
Thank you, Tom. I enjoy writing a sonnet on occasion. I'm glad you enjoyed this one.
Hello, It's Grim (Poetry) - 1/10/2014 4:57:52 PM
don't you luv the mystery of it all?
Hello, It's Grim (Poetry) - 1/10/2014 2:17:39 PM
I pray for 'in my sleep', Ronald Hull. Thanks for taking the time to read the poem and for liking it enough to comment.
Sand
Hello, It's Grim (Poetry) - 1/10/2014 8:50:15 AM
This is a call to action. We all should know what's coming. Our only hope is that it happen in our sleep. In the meantime, let's get busy.
Ron
Hello, It's Grim (Poetry) - 1/9/2014 7:16:04 PM
Live today. Stretch out for the glory now
Everyone must before the Reaper bow
Good advice. Thank you for sharing it through your verses here. Love, peace, and best wishes to you,
Regis
Hello, It's Grim (Poetry) - 1/9/2014 3:39:22 PM
we all must eventually
budd
Jason Gone Again (Poetry) - 1/9/2014 10:21:37 AM
SAND...
EWE IS A MORE GOODER POME RIGHTER THEN I IS !!!
That should turn Sr. Thomas Aloyisous (?) over in her grave... Eh Wot ?!?
Audience Non-participation (Poetry) - 9/17/2013 9:56:33 AM
Her... Herself... and She ...
Just as Independent !
Hot And Cold Running Life (Poetry) - 9/17/2013 9:51:34 AM
Home... the Sanctuary... the Castle... the Adult's Womb !!!
Shield Bearer (Poetry) - 9/17/2013 9:44:37 AM
Sand... Well spoken! One of the "GOOD GUYS" ...
Shield Bearer (Poetry) - 9/17/2013 9:18:44 AM
In other words, a manly man. Well penned.
Ron
Shield Bearer (Poetry) - 9/17/2013 7:30:45 AM
He sounds like a very strong sentinel.
Well crafted.
Shield Bearer (Poetry) - 9/17/2013 2:22:37 AM
finely worded
budd
forge marks (Poetry) - 5/3/2013 8:43:08 AM
HOT HOT HOT ...
Life Everlasting (Poetry) - 2/18/2008 3:42:08 PM
SAND - REALLY LIKE THIS ONE! WELL DONE!
but what happened to FIRE? earth-wind-and-____ Sea is nice, tho!
:) ::) :)
Other Wise (Poetry) - 2/18/2008 3:35:38 PM
SAND --- Very poignant write - astute too!
I guess I was just lucky - Mom only had about a 5th grade education, and no religion, so she basically learned from me. Dad was a hard worker and earned a GDE or whatever you call it, at night school. An avid reader, but couldn't spell too good.
But they both taught me love, understanding, and patience. Two older sisters, married and out on their own left me to gey "spoiled" also!
Ciao! TK.
Outshouting Wisdom (Poetry) - 1/12/2008 6:49:24 AM
SAND... good one!
CHILI - BEER - TV - STEREO - WE BURP - WISDOM FARTS - HOW HIGH-TECH CAN WE GET?
toodles, tom
Caught (Poetry) - 1/12/2008 6:28:43 AM
SAND - WELL DONE!
I really like it. the alternating textures kinda 'tickle my fancy' ... if you 'catch my drift'.
then, after re-reading, applying the title... I get the visual of a spider web...
hasta la vista, baby... tom
Trapped (Poetry) - 9/17/2007 3:36:43 PM
Something many can relate to, well done! Holly
Proteus Visits (Poetry) - 8/24/2007 8:38:29 AM
SAND - WELL DONE! Had to GOOGLE - to refresh my grey cells. For your other readers edification, w/copy + paste this, from WICKIPEDIA.COM
"Shakespeare uses the image of Proteus to establish the character of his great royal villain Richard III in the play Henry VI, Part Three, the prequel to his play Richard III. In Act III, Scene ii, Richard (not yet the king), boasts:
"I can add colors to the chameleon,
Change shapes with Proteus for advantages,
And set the murderous Machiavel to school.
Can I do this, and cannot get a crown?
Tut, were it farther off, I'll pluck it down."
In 1807 William Wordsworth finished his sonnet on the theme of a modernity deadened to Nature, which opens "The world is too much with us", with a sense of nostalgia for the lost richness of a world numinous with deities:
...I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea. [2]
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathd horn.
In modern times the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung defined the mythological figure of Proteus as a personification of the unconscious, who, because of his gift of prophecy and shape-changing has much in common with the central but elusive figure of alchemy, Mercurius.
[edit]"Proteus" in modern fiction
In James Joyce's Ulysses, Chapter 3 uses Protean transformations of matter in time for self exploration.
The term "Proteus" and "vombis" also were used in a James Blish short story about a race of alien beings who could change shape at will, but were not as malevolent as The Thing written about by John W. Campbell.
In the film Fantastic Voyage , Proteus is the apt name for the experimental submarine which is shrunk to sub-cellular size, and injected into a dying scientist to save his life.
In the animated TV series "Gargoyles," Proteus is the shape-shifting menace and arch-enemy of the city of New Olympus in the episode titled "The New Olypians."
In the role-playing games Vampire: the Masquerade and Vampire: the Requiem, vampires of the Gangrel clan may possess a discipline named Protean that allows them to transform into bats, wolves, mist and such.
Kurt Vonnegut's novel Player Piano revolves around the actions of Paul Proteus, a manager of a machine works in New York. Paul's life mirrors Proteus in that he must change his "shape" (character) to find his place in a machine-controlled society with which he is out of sympathy.
In the Film "Lost in Space", "Proteus" is the name of the space ship that is sent to look for the Robinson Family in an alternate time. The ship is subsequently destroyed.
In another Film, "Demon Seed", the evil supercomputer is named "Proteus IV"
In Craig Thomas' novel Sea Leopard, the British submarine is named HMS Proteus.
In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the Protean Charm is a complex spell used by Hermione Granger to enchant coins so that changing the serial number on one affected the others as well. She used it to communicate the times of secret meetings. It was also used by Voldemort to communicate with his Death Eaters.
In the Marvel Comics series X-men, Proteus is the villain identity of reality-changing mutant Kevin MacTaggart, son of Moira MacTaggart on Muir Isle Mutant Research Facility.
In Rick Wakeman's song "The Battle/The Journey" Proteus is described as a giant pre-historic man who herds mastadons in the center of the Earth (itself an image from Jules Verne's Journey to the center of the Earth).
PROTEUS... SHAPE-SHIFTER... Tom.
Trapped (Poetry) - 8/21/2007 7:52:00 PM
Well, I can most certainly understand this poem in its entirety. Oddly enough, I wrote my own poem tonight with the same title. Not to copy you, as I hadn't seen yours until after posting mine, but to release the feelings from me. You have expressed the emotion quite well. ~ Sara
Trapped (Poetry) - 8/21/2007 9:47:15 AM
Clastrophobic feel to this reality for many: well done.
(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.
Proteus Visits (Poetry) - 7/2/2007 1:01:13 AM
Again your style of poetry has given the subject life.
Robert
