Please Let Him Hurl Comments

cudg·el ˈkəjəl/ noun noun: cudgel; plural noun: cudgels 1. a short thick stick used as a weapon. synonyms: club, bludgeon, stick, truncheon, baton, mace, blackjack, billy club, nightstick, shillelagh a thick wooden cudgel verb verb: cudgel; 3rd person present: cudgels; past tense: cudgelled; past participle: cudgelled; gerund or present participle: cudgelling; past tense: cudgeled; past participle: cudgeled; gerund or present participle: cudgeling 1. beat with a cudgel. synonyms: bludgeon, club, beat, batter, bash the victim was cudgeled to death Origin Old English cycgel, of unknown origin. Translate cudgel to Use over time for: cudgel - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - it's been a LONG time since i heard the word. are you promoting taking the law into one's own hands? ? self-defense........ok, if police are not forthcoming.............perhaps, but, if not, you are flirting with 'mob rule'. BUT i have read the Poet's Notes; thanks for them. i'd have to judge each situation on its own merits. and i know the legal/police system does not always work perfectly. ============================== overall, i too will condemn the thrust of the poem, and agree that such behavior of allowing and encouraging such behavior in a youth (or anybody) is absurd and could lead directly to unjust excesses on the hurler's part. you could have expressed your hope in another way! maybe the kid is crazy or retarded, OR just plain nasty! ! nip it in the bud, i say! bri ;)

l can appreciate the child's childish pranks and your benevolent attitude towards him. However, the boy's mother has done the right thing by admonishing him.

Only a kind heart could show the magnanimity and it is a well thought out hope about the child. May it blossom in good sense and make the child for an after thought.

What a peaceful person you must be! I'm afraid I would have probably acted differently, although with a five-year-old I wouldn't have been too harsh, I hope.

Such lofty insight! Your reaction to the boy's (inadvertent) act is so ennobling and fatherly! If we can see such acts in the way you took it, how different the world would have been! He might bowl for the country In the future and bring laurels In international cricket This light hearted and humorous reaction to life and its situations is a such welcome thing! Enjoyed!