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Author Topic: Poetry in (very slow) motion Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 12-05-2002 06:34 AM                        An poet from Whitley Bay (near Newcastle, in north-east England) has been given £2,000 of public arts subsidy to paint words from one of her poems onto the backs of sheep. Here is the story. I suppose there are worse things she could have done to those sheep, but Whitley Bay is on the wrong side of the Severn Bridge for that! It's good to see that our taxes are being spent wisely...  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Worthing Master Film Handler Posts: 384 From: Hereford, UK Registered: Apr 2001 posted 12-05-2002 07:23 AM                     IT MAKES ME THE THEASE HALFWITS SPEND OUR MONEY ON. THEY NEED A GOOD  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 12-05-2002 09:21 AM                        Who would you say needs the good err... you know? The sheep, the poet or whoever decided to give her the two grand?  |  IP: Logged Gerard S. Cohen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 975 From: Forest Hills, NY, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 12-05-2002 12:17 PM                     Bicycling through the English Lake District (alternating rain and sun every ten minutes) I noticed many of the sheep had large dye marks in red or blue, one to each. Never found out if it designated the sex of the sheep, or it's owner's mark, or whether it had been dipped, or what. Anyone know? As for kooky places for posting poems, how about the seventeen movie marquees along 42nd Street awaiting replacement of the closed theatres by the Times Square upgrading committee? Haiku were posted in regular giant letters, reflecting New York philosophical thoughts both profound, humorous and silly, from a number of local poets. Kind of freaked out those expecting film titles there!  |  IP: Logged David Favel Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 764 From: Ashburton, New Zealand Registered: Feb 2002 posted 12-05-2002 04:23 PM                     Would the mark have been on their backs? If so, during "tupping" the ram has a dye pack attached to it's chest to show how many ewes he has serviced.  |  IP: Logged Ken McFall Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 615 From: Haringey, London. Registered: Apr 2001 posted 12-05-2002 04:32 PM                     So YES you could say the sheep has been dipped!! or as we like to refer to paying taxes.... well and truly f..... did I really say that!  |  IP: Logged

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