Flarf (1998); Re: Okolehau/okolehao

[Wilson Gray]

On Aug 25, 2004, at 2:55 AM, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

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> FLARF
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> _Awful poems sought and found: From span to Google, flarf redefines
> random_
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> "If you have a Googled/cut up poem that still has most of its social
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> set too high, it may be interesting poetry but it's probably not
> flarfy."
> --VILLAGE VOICE, August 25-31, 2004, pg. 48.
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> FLARF--892 Google hits, 2,910 Google Groups hits
> FLARF + POETRY--276 Google hits, 335 Google Groups hits
> "Flarf" is not in OED, not in HDAS, and not in WordSpy. Also, not on=20
> Double-Tongued Word Wrester, a seeming flarf-friendly place.
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> FlaRF is the Florida Renaissance fair.
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> Flarf
> ... To steal another formulation from O'Hara, flarf being surer and
> quicker=20
> than
> poetry, it is only just that flarf finish poetry off. ****. ...=20
> epc.buffalo.edu/authors/ bernstein/syllabi/readings/flarf.html - 35k -
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> {lime tree}: Flarf?
> ... Flarf came about a couple of years ago when Gary Sullivan
> submitted a=20
> deliberately
> bad poem to Poetry.com, one of those vanity companies that lures the
> ...=20
> limetree.ksilem.com/archives/000173.html - 8k - Cached - Similar
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> (GOOGLE GROUPS)
> Re: BBC & Flarf
> ... consist of me reading the last 4 or 5 lines of "Stupidity Owns Me"
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> COMBO 12,
> and then explaining that Flarf is intentionally bad poetry that
> involves ...=
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> alt.confusion.at-its-finest - May 10, 2004 by noemata - View Thread
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> Issues of Style (was: Enough Nodwigabilia)
> ... You've mentioned my poetry long enough, you might just tempt me.
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> You'll
> be sore. You have no idea, flarf, what literature can do. ...=20
> rec.arts.books - Nov 1, 1998 by Philip Nikolayev - <A
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> srcc.local.statistics - Jan 29, 1998 by newsadm at gamma.ru - View Thread
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> OKOLEHAU/OKOLEHAO
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> OKOLEHAO--848 Google hits, 59 Google Groups hits
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> FOOD DICTIONARY: HOME
> okolehao [oh-koh-leh-HAH-oh] An 80 PROOF Hawaiian liquor made from a
> mash
> of the TI plant. ... Okolehao is known on the islands as oke . ...=20
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> In a message dated 8/25/2004 12:00:02 AM Eastern Standard Time,=20
> douglas at NB.NET writes:
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>> Why would anybody think it was?
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>> "Okolehao": lots of Google hits.
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> Yes, I meant "Okolehao." I might have earlier than 1895 in my
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> materials...Google usually corrects me on these spelling things, but I
> got "=
> Did you=20
> mean OKLAHOMA?"
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> "HOLY COW" COINAGE: "Why would anybody think it was?" You mean, people
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> believe any etymology about anything, and publish anything anywhere
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> correction, EXCEPT "Holy Cow"? Here are two examples:
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> Harry Caray's Chicago: The Splendid Table
> ... A large plastic replica of a cow with holes in it pays tribute to
> Harry,=
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> who coined
> the expression "Holy Cow!" The famous homemade potato chips served at
> the ..=
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> splendidtable.publicradio.org/ whereweeat/stern_harrycaray.shtml - 11k
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> Yahoo! Directory Sportscasters > Harry Caray
> ... and about Harry. Harry Caray WAS Baseball - offers a tribute to
> the man
> who coined the phrase "Holy Cow."; Harry Caray's Restaurant ...=20
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FWIW, before, during, and after the 15 years that I lived in St. Louis,
Harry Caray was the voice of the St. Louis Cardinals. In those days, he
wasn't known for even using "Holy Cow!", let alone for having invented
it. Rather, he was known for "It might be! It Could Be! It IS! A HOME
RUN!" Funny how history is continually being rewritten.

-Wilson Gray