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In article <[email protected]>, pursent100
@gmail.com says...
> 
> Skeeter wrote:
> > In article <[email protected]>, pursent100
> > @gmail.com says...
> >>
> >> Skeeter wrote:
> >>> In article <[email protected]>, pursent100
> >>> @gmail.com says...
> >>>>
> >>>> Skeeter wrote:
> >>>>> In article <1s05rp8.n0uhjf1soffu8N%[email protected]>, [email protected]
> >>>>> says...
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> yoyleguy <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Sn!pe <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>>>>> My generation was taught how to punctuate properly at school!
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Every generation thinks it's the correct one. It's just who actually is
> >>>>>>> the correct generation that nobody really knows.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> How do you feel about: semicolons; quotation marks; parentheses;
> >>>>>>>> and (of course) the star performer, the apostrophe?  How about the
> >>>>>>>> Oxford comma?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I like- no, LOVE, the semi-colon (I can never actually figure out on
> >>>>>>> whether it has a hyphen or not...) quite a lot and use it a bit
> >>>>>>> considering how little it gets used in real life. As for the
> >>>>>>> parentheses, they are alright though I think they look a bit ugly, but
> >>>>>>> there are no real alternatives. As for the quotation marks, I use them
> >>>>>>> when I must. With the apostrophe, I always use it correctly, unlike the
> >>>>>>> (ahem, excuse me,) *plebs* who fail to use it. It's always really
> >>>>>>> annoying whenever I see "its" where it should be "it's".
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The despised "greengrocers' apostrophe" in plural's is bad but
> >>>>>> superfluous apostrophes in possessives are the worst. I send it's
> >>>>>> perpetrators to alt.possesive.its.has.no.apostrophe.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> As for the Oxford comma, I have always loved it and defended it; if you
> >>>>>>> didn't have the Oxford comma, you'd have the sentence "In the office
> >>>>>>> were the strippers, Joseph Stalin and JFK." (I know, old example) which
> >>>>>>> implies Stalin and JFK were the strippers. Let's look at a more original
> >>>>>>> example: While on their walk in Egypt, the murderers, Michael Jackson
> >>>>>>> and George Washington all tripped on a rock. Yes, it's incredibly
> >>>>>>> anachronistic, but whatever. If you had the Oxford comma, there would be
> >>>>>>> no ambiguity on if Stalin was a stripper or if Michael Jackson killed
> >>>>>>> someone.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> An interesting, albeit unconventional, use of the Oxford comma.
> >>>>>> I applaud your fearlessly adventuresome approach.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Who is TED?  I once had a bear named Ted, or maybe he had me.
> >>>>>> The mists of time make such memories unreliable.  [sigh]
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hey, If you're interested. I made a group over at that place about discussion
> >>>>> of physics. It's called rb.sci.easyphysics.  I like studying about atoms, the
> >>>>> universe, you know how things work.
> >>>>>
> >>>> yea well too bad you don't work now dummy up before i lift you up
> >>>
> >>> bring it you so and so and whatever.
> >>>
> >> i thought i saw tim yesterday
> > 
> > That guy Alan in the Limbaugh group reminds me of him.
> > 
> i remember him from years back

Same as tim, copy cat, tries to twist everything around, he tries to play me 
with games I put in the book hes reading. usenet is getting boring so I snag 
whatever I can. We are having some fun in our own deal. Snipe is in there, Tom, 
a few others. Check it out.

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