# "You're published, Speaker!" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 14, 2002, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-published-speaker/98161 "2002-03-14T00:51:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2002, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-published-speaker/98161/1 "2002-03-14T00:51:54Z")
No, not just in Teemings. I am published in a _province wide_ publication for a poem I wrote in grade nine! Every year there’s a book published called “The Golden Taffy” that is a collection of the best entries of writing from students across Saskatchewan. My teacher asked if she could submit some poems I’d asked her to read, and I said sure, and I’d forgotten about it until my English teacher (a different one) handed it to me and congratulated me. I’m proud. 🆒 😃 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![RaCha\_ar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@RaCha\_ar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaCha_ar)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2002, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-published-speaker/98161/2 "2002-03-14T00:56:13Z")
'gratz, Speaker. Good for you. 🙂 Don’t suppose you’d care to honour us by posting a copy of the poem (or a link, if the book has an online version)? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2002, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-published-speaker/98161/3 "2002-03-14T01:05:23Z")
Congratulations, **Speaker**! ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2002, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-published-speaker/98161/4 "2002-03-14T03:30:49Z")
Many congratulations, **Speaker**! 🆒 And if there is a link to your stuff, I’m sure many here would love to see it. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2002, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-published-speaker/98161/5 "2002-03-14T14:12:48Z")
Speaker - I think that’s just wonderful! I’d like to see it too - is there a link? ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2002, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-published-speaker/98161/6 "2002-03-15T15:41:09Z")
I finally got around to uploading it to my [Geocities](http://www.geocities.com/flame_of_the_dragon/cloudride.doc). But I made a change or two to make it a tad better. And if you’re looking for a deep meaning, it’s not. It’s literally talking about walking on clouds. ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2002, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-published-speaker/98161/7 "2002-03-15T15:42:58Z")
Well, that link didn’t work. Try going [here](http://www.geocities.com/flame_of_the_dragon/) and click on ‘cloudride.doc’. ---
**Author:** ![Sophie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@Sophie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophie)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2002, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-published-speaker/98161/8 "2002-03-15T16:30:28Z")
I read the title of this thread as, “You’re punished, Speaker”. Congratulations. I am off to read the poem itself. ---
**Author:** ![Arwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7c8e57/32.png) [@Arwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arwen)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2002, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-published-speaker/98161/9 "2002-03-15T16:50:06Z")
Congratulations, **Speaker**! What a poem! ---
**Author:** ![Lodrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@Lodrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lodrain)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2002, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-published-speaker/98161/10 "2002-03-15T22:15:30Z")
Speaker, sleep well tonight with the knowledge that you make me feel inferior and inadequate and make me want to kill myself because my fragile ego has been bested by a person who lives in one of them there “province” places! (takes a breath, coughs and then starts again) But that was a pretty darned-diggity-doogle neaty-poo poem. Congratulations!