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Rebecca Lizard - Feb 16, 2003 11:30:01 pm PST #3094 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

Oh, who's competitive now?


Jon B. - Feb 16, 2003 11:32:11 pm PST #3095 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

You guys are arguing over whether an em-dash should have spaces? It's times like these that I'm not so sorry that I'm behind in a bunch of threads.

t edit I'm on RL's side.


P.M. Marc - Feb 16, 2003 11:34:00 pm PST #3096 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

You guys are arguing over whether an em-dash should have spaces? It's times like these that I'm not so sorry that I'm behind in a bunch of threads.

Yeah. The Angel thread kind of got a little off the topic...

I'd still like it as a quick-edit, although in my perfect world, there are no spaces around it, so perhaps I'll just get really good at typing the entity.


Jon B. - Feb 16, 2003 11:35:58 pm PST #3097 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Coincidentally, I was just searching for that entity yesterday when I was HTMLifying the Mythology FAQ. I put spaces around it. :P


Rebecca Lizard - Feb 16, 2003 11:38:10 pm PST #3098 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

t bows to Jon


P.M. Marc - Feb 16, 2003 11:38:39 pm PST #3099 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

For reasons I cannot explain, I keep leaving the # out of it when I type it. Though not when I use it.

— is my friend, but spaces are incorrect. Damn it.


Noumenon - Feb 16, 2003 11:42:36 pm PST #3100 of 10000
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti

You guys are arguing over whether an em-dash should have spaces? It's times like these that I'm not so sorry that I'm behind in a bunch of threads.

You might want to skip from Perkins "Angel 2: No Time for Losers" Feb 16, 2003 3:10:43 pm EST where Perkins innocently asked if it was correct to say "Wes's lizard brain" or "Wes' lizard brain," on through a discussion of "Zed" vs "Zee" in the alphabet song, a discussion of ellipses and good grammar, through the final post about em and en dashes at Rebecca Lizard "Angel 2: No Time for Losers" Feb 17, 2003 1:20:46 am EST, about three hundred posts later. And the really amazing thing is that we never got sidetracked onto the puns of punctuation, in all that extended period. I think the abstruse points of style put our brains into a comma.

— is my friend,

I use &emdash; from a list of HTML Entities.


Jon B. - Feb 16, 2003 11:46:39 pm PST #3101 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Thanks for the warnings Nou.

— is my friend,

Hunh. I was using — Should I change it?

I use &emdash;

According to that page you linked to, it's —.


Rebecca Lizard - Feb 16, 2003 11:48:40 pm PST #3102 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

You *were* using —, Nou.

And the really amazing thing is that we never got sidetracked onto the puns of punctuation, in all that extended period.

(Oh thank the Lord, no we didn't.)


Noumenon - Feb 16, 2003 11:58:44 pm PST #3103 of 10000
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti

I thought about editing to say no, I don't actually use em dash, because it looks funny to me, but that's where I went to look it up earlier today. Sorry I got it wrong.