Comment from pattipac

Excellent

Lol, I throughly enjoyed reading your humorous letters to the editor for and against a bill to allow gay marriage in Australia. Excellent phrases implying sexual acts used in discrbing a gay city and ones job were hilarious.

 Comment Written 01-Oct-2016

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reply by the author on 07-Oct-2016

Delighted that you enjoyed this one, Pattipac, and that you saw the humour in it. Best wishes, Tony

Comment from livelylinda

Good

Tony: very cute baby in your picture! A grandchild, I presume?

Normally I would find your humor refreshing but this subject is too close to home for me to find any comfort or humor in it. I am a lesbian and it took me over 30 years to figure that out, always searching for the real me. I know many gay people, bi people and trans people. Where there is love, there should be God's blessings and the laws of the land should be encouraging and accepting of every adult.

Marriage is not just about one man and one woman marrying for life, Sunday dinner and sex on Saturday night and New Year's Eve.

Linda

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 Comment Written 22-Sep-2016

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reply by the author on 22-Sep-2016

Thank you for your review, Linda. You are right - that's my granddaughter in the profile picture. Sorry if my satirical approach to the subject offended you. Best wishes, Tony

Comment from Wabigoon

Excellent

Tony--
The devious second letter is almost enough. The first needs to be longer and maybe more in the ironic spirit of the second with its "pornographic materialism and apt descriptions, erotic descriptions of the power dynamic in capitalism. Where these juicy metaphors strike me most strongly's in the Church with all its bowing and scraping, its "opening up," unzipping of one's heart, submitting, "letting God come into your life," etc.

Enjoyed it, your irony in particular.
Jeff

 Comment Written 20-Sep-2016

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reply by the author on 21-Sep-2016

Thanks, Jeff. I appreciate your comments. Tony

Comment from ciliverde

Exceptional

Great job, Tony, and welcome to the group! I love your offering. I still haven't done my letters, but you are inspiring me here. I truly feel for poor Downtrodden, while Mr. Arsenden seems to have some interesting issues, beyond what the editor can help him with ;) Carol

 Comment Written 20-Sep-2016

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reply by the author on 21-Sep-2016

Thanks, Carol. I appreciate your comments and the six stars. Will keep a lookout for yours.Tony

Comment from Spitfire

Exceptional

Hilarious. Especially the double meanings in the response.
I read the first letter as one who referred to the definition of gay as full of fun. I think at one time it was a word for prostitute. Glad you took up the challenge.

 Comment Written 19-Sep-2016

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reply by the author on 19-Sep-2016

Very many thanks for your review, Shari, and for the six stars. Much appreciated! So glad this caused a moment's amusement.

Comment from TAB_that's me

Excellent

I like that you took a humorous approach to both sides - I appreciate that very much.

Both done perfectly.

teresa

 Comment Written 19-Sep-2016

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reply by the author on 19-Sep-2016

Very many thanks for your review, Teresa. So glad this caused a moment's amusement.

Comment from Treischel

Excellent

Your humor, especially in the "against" letter had me in stitches at your clever play on words. I think you nailed this one on the head. Or, should I say, you drove it home. Lol.

 Comment Written 19-Sep-2016

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reply by the author on 19-Sep-2016

Very many thanks for your review, Tom. So glad this caused a moment's amusement.

Comment from artemis53

Excellent

Nice job on all accounts including the signatures and "Please accept my humble fellations, ' which was over the top. Enjoy. I guess it was fun to really take a poke at the insanity that surrounds us.

 Comment Written 19-Sep-2016

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reply by the author on 19-Sep-2016

Very many thanks for your review, Artemis. So glad this caused a moment's amusement.

Comment from Pantygynt

Excellent

I haven't laughed so much on a Monday morning since Margaret Thatcher was finally pronounced dead. The deliberate misunderstanding, in both missives, of the concept of what you are writing about is beyond the mere funny, and your final signing off in the second letter is worth a pull-it-sir prize.

Thank you for a right good laugh.

 Comment Written 19-Sep-2016

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reply by the author on 19-Sep-2016

Many thanks for your review, Jim. Glad that this bit of fun entertained you! The signing off wasn't original but recollected from one of my father's favorite after dinner stories (after the ladies had withdrawn)!
A man whose name was always being misspelled by an acquaintance eventually spelled it out in frustration.
Look here old chap,
A-r-c-h, you've got the Arch,
i, you've got the Arch-i,
b-a-l-d, you've got the bald, you've got the i-bald, the you've got the Archibald,
a-r-s, you've got the ars, you've got the bald-ars, you've got the i-bald ars, you've got the Archibald Ars
e-n-d, you've got the end, you've got the ars-end, you've got the bald-ars-end, you've got the e-bald-ars-end, you've got the Archibald Arsend
e-n, you've got the en, you've got the end-en, you've got the ars-end-en, you've got the bald-ars-end-en, you've got the i-bald-ars-end-en, you've got the whole bloody Archibald Arsenden, and don't you forget it!

It needs to be delivered with rising tempo, stress and fury for full effect!

Comment from EBC62

Exceptional

You are too much tfawcus.
Reading you each morning always provides me with a good start to the day....that in itself is worth six stars!
~EBC~

 Comment Written 19-Sep-2016

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reply by the author on 19-Sep-2016

Very many thanks for your review, EBC, and for the six stars. Much appreciated! So glad this caused a moment's amusement. I was overwhelmed by your generous addition of member cent pumps. Extremely generous! All the best, Tony