Terry Pratchett says that three exclamation points in dialogue is the hallmark of the deranged character.
'Dear Diary, Today I was pompous and my sister was crazy.' 'Today, we were kidnapped by hill folk never to be seen again. It was the best day ever.'
Jayne ,'Safe'
Coffee On My Monitor
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Theodosia - Oct 10, 2002 9:19:32 pm PDT #303 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Rebecca Lizard - Oct 10, 2002 9:36:07 pm PDT #304 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
Or, David Walker.
I love David Walker. He is my typographical inspiration. Plus, you know, the rhetoric.
Trudy Booth - Oct 11, 2002 12:27:51 am PDT #305 of 10000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Steph L: Don't mind Miracleman -- he's Swiss. They get like that.
Trudy Booth - Oct 11, 2002 1:08:04 am PDT #306 of 10000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Betsy Hanes Perry (in Angel):
This was a test. It was only a test. If it had been a real possible-escape situation, the wrench on the nautical map would not have been made out of foam rubber.
billytea - Oct 11, 2002 8:03:31 am PDT #307 of 10000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Trudy, in Bitches:
OK, I respect the cervix, props to the cervix, word, yo... but couldn't it have a little flap or maybe a condenser of some sort?
esse - Oct 11, 2002 8:08:06 am PDT #308 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
The delectable Billytea, snarking in Beaurocracy:
Fraught. I should definitely be putting that into a sentence about now, but again with the sleep deprivation. Still, fraught. Oh, and Phwooaargh.
Cindy - Oct 11, 2002 9:28:58 am PDT #309 of 10000
Nobody
That sounded like a Joss from the old PB days.
Miracleman - Oct 11, 2002 10:16:52 am PDT #310 of 10000
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Terry Pratchett says that three exclamation points in dialogue is the hallmark of the deranged character.
And that five or more is the mark of a truly insane person.
That, and anyone who actually writes maniacal laughter.
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!!
Emily - Oct 11, 2002 10:20:16 am PDT #311 of 10000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Theodosia - Oct 11, 2002 11:25:15 am PDT #312 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Emily in Natter:
Michigan would have ethnic diversity... if you kind of picked it up and shook it real fast and then set it down! It's like an ethnic snowglobe!