Category: poetry

The Man Rules

By Phil Scoville, July 3, 2008 10:10 pm
The Man Rules
At last a guy has taken the time to write this all down

Finally , the guys’ side of the story.
(
I must admit, it’s pretty good.)
We always hear
the rules
From the female side.

Now here are the rules from the male side.


These are our rules!
Please note.. these are all numbered “1 “
ON PURPOSE!

1.   Men are NOT mind readers.

1. Learn to work the toilet seat.
You’re a big girl. If it’s up, put it down.
We need it up, you need it down.
You don’t hear us complaining about you leaving it down.

1. Sunday sports.  It’s like the full moon
or the changing of the tides.
Let it be.

1. Crying is blackmail.

1. Ask for what you want.
Let us be clear on this one:
Subtle hints do not work!
Strong hints do not work!
Obvious hints do not work!
Just say it!

1. Yes and No are perfectly acceptable answers to almost every question.

1. Come to us with a problem only if you want help solving it. That’s what we do.
Sympathy is what your girlfriends are for.

1. Anything we said 6 months ago is inadmissible in an argument.
In fact, all comments become Null and void after 7 Days.

1. If you think you’re fat, you probably are.
Don’t ask us.

1. If something we said can be interpreted two ways and one of the ways makes you sad or angry, we meant the other one

1. You can either ask us to do something
Or tell us how you want it done.
Not both.
If you already know best how to do it, just do it yourself.

1. Whenever possible, Please say whatever you have to say during commercials..

1. Christopher Columbus did NOT need directions and neither do we.

1. ALL men see in only 16 colors, like Windows default settings.
Peach, for example, is a fruit, not
A color. Pumpkin is also a fruit. We have no idea what mauve is.

1. If it itches, it will be scratched.
We do that.

1. If we ask what is wrong and you say “nothing,” We will act like nothing’s wrong.
We know you are lying, but it is just not worth the hassle.

1. If you ask a question you don’t want an answer to, Expect an answer you don’t want to hear.

1. When we have to go somewhere, absolutely anything you wear is fine… Really .

1. Don’t ask us what we’re thinking about unless you are prepared to discuss such topics as baseball or

motor sports

1. You have enough clothes.

1. You have too many shoes.

1. I am in shape. Round IS a shape!

1. Thank you for reading this.
Yes, I know, I have to sleep on the couch tonight;

But did you know men really don’t mind that? It’s like camping.

Pass this to as many men as you can -
to give them a laugh.

Pass this to as many women as you can

to give them a bigger lauGH!

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Trailer: paradethemovie.com

By Phil Scoville, January 24, 2008 11:17 pm

[stage6 width="400" height="225"]http://www.stage6.com/user/pimplywimp/video/2122907/Parade-Trailer[/stage6]

I got an email tonight from one of my best friends, Brandon Cahoon. He let me know that the trailer (preview) of Parade is complete and available for your viewing pleasure. Please check it out at www.paradethemovie.com. It is great. This is the movie that I’ve been telling you about for months now. It is about complete. Cahoon submitted it to a few festivals and we are waiting to hear back about it. It looks awesome. Thanks for all the hard work, Brandon. I know you spent many hours and nights tediously going over the movie.

When I typed in “Parade the movie” in my google browser, this was the fifth link. Pretty great for Brandon’s debut film. I also like the version that is playing on Youtube. Click here to see it.

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Walt Whitman

By Phil Scoville, November 14, 2007 6:04 am

“When I give, I give myself.”

by Walt Whitman

p.s. I picked this up off of the forbes.com website.

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Hafiz’ “At This Party” translated by Daniel Ladinsky

By Phil Scoville, November 13, 2007 10:29 pm

At This Party

I don’t want to be the only one here

Telling all the secrets -

Filling up all the bowls at this party,

Taking all the laughs.

I would like you

To start putting things on the table

That can also feed the soul

The way I do.

That way

We can invite

A hell of a lot more

Friends.

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Thanks, Robert Frost by David Ray

By Phil Scoville, October 14, 2007 9:52 am

Do you have hope for the future?
someone asked Robert Frost, toward the end.
Yes, and even for the past, he replied,
that it will turn out to have been all right
for what it was, something we can accept,
mistakes made by the selves we had to be,
not able to be, perhaps, what we wished,
or what looking back half the time it seems
we could so easily have been, or ought…
The future, yes, and even for the past,
that it will become something we can bear.
And I too, and my children, so I hope,
will recall as not too heavy the tug
of those albatrosses I sadly placed
upon their tender necks. Hope for the past,
yes, old Frost, your words provide that courage,
and it brings strange peace that itself passes
into past, easier to bear because
you said it, rather casually, as snow
went on falling in Vermont years ago.

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