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Skeeter wrote:
> 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 <[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.
>>>
>> i'm too lazy
> 
> i hear ya, raining eairler, still warm, chicken with peppers and corn and
> onions and some other stuff.
> 
pizza , low 90's earlier , 65 now and the days are getting shorter