And....we have a new player!!!!! It is speculated by historians that the Punctuites were infiltrated by Comma-nists and Marks-ists and that is, at least, in part-iciple, what led to their demise. Along with that pesky god Apostropheii of course.
"When Two Commas Get High Together" is in my dissertation bibliography. If I remember,,,,correctly,,,it was written in the 1960's by some professor at Cal Berkeley, who argued that the otherwise innocence of commas were corrupted by the introduction of the aformentioned inhalant causing the professor a lot of grief when it came to grading papers. Not only were the papers practically unreadable, but they were all covered in Cheeto dust.and bologna sandwich crumbs. The professor, I cannot recall his name (I think it was Tommy Chong, D.D.S.) also argued that were far simpler methods to use the "two high commas" and one method was to simply not use them at all....problem solved.
I'm listening to an audiobook of Lawrence Blocks early stories, written for men's magazines such as "Manhunt," "Trapped," and "Guilty." Block narrates the Introduction, and in it he says there was one magazine where, "Every story title had an exclamation mark at the end. I longed to call a story, "One Dull Night," so that they could call it, "ONE DULL NIGHT!"
Ron, I,m glad you reminded me, I just picked up a MNH C15 to finish off my set and I need to get it laminated it to keep Bentley and Bear from barfing on it,,,,,
George,,,,If Mouse was really a mouse,,,he might be a little nervous about this pic. Squeak!....sorry, squeak,,,,squeak. He's a good mouse though,,,,I think he would say, if he could, use more commas,,,
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two marihuana-smoking commas "
I just got that. I know I'm slow on the uptake. But how did that get by Greg without comment?
Disagreeing
Leads to a
Which could "Ted is really an AI prototype" "All men are anatomically created equal (except in cold weather)"
Treatment ......translation?
some punctuation is funnier than the others
"When Two Commas Get High Together" is in my dissertation bibliography. If I remember,,,,correctly,,,it was written in the 1960's by some professor at Cal Berkeley, who argued that the otherwise innocence of commas were corrupted by the introduction of the aformentioned inhalant causing the professor a lot of grief when it came to grading papers. Not only were the papers practically unreadable, but they were all covered in Cheeto dust.and bologna sandwich crumbs. The professor, I cannot recall his name (I think it was Tommy Chong, D.D.S.) also argued that were far simpler methods to use the "two high commas" and one method was to simply not use them at all....problem solved.
obese comma <,>
Indian comma /,\
foul mouthed comma , < "@%!$*"
Oh Lord, that hairball just kinda slipped out on Greg's stamp