That sounds like a Wondermark punchline.
Mal: Can I come in? Inara: No. Mal: See? That's why I usually don't ask.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Polter-Cow - Jul 07, 2009 8:06:33 am PDT #27797 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Gudanov - Jul 07, 2009 8:10:17 am PDT #27798 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
I guess it hasn't happened yet, but it sounds like it will. Apparently Gov. Parry is considering putting Cynthia Dunbar, who is opposed to public education in principal, to be chairwoman of the state school board.
In a book published last year, Dunbar argued the country’s founding fathers created “an emphatically Christian government” and that government should be guided by a “biblical litmus test.” She endorses a belief system that requires “any person desiring to govern have a sincere knowledge and appreciation for the Word of God in order to rightly govern.”
Also in the book, she calls public education a “subtly deceptive tool of perversion.”
The establishment of public schools is unconstitutional and even “tyrannical,” she wrote, because it threatens the authority of families, granted by God through Scripture, to direct the instruction of their children.
Dunbar home-schooled her own children.
Wow, thank you Texas for making Kansas look sane.
sarameg - Jul 07, 2009 8:11:12 am PDT #27799 of 30000
It's been an hour since I requested information from them that should be all of 2 words, and nothing.
Ah well, if it doesn't get done, it's because they ignored my deadline.
Amy - Jul 07, 2009 8:11:22 am PDT #27800 of 30000
Because books.
The media coverage of this is ridic. hey look, Iran, and Honduras, and China, OH and the TWO WARS we are still fighting.
Seriously, it's on *every* channel. He's not a head of state, people. I just don't get it.
Theodosia - Jul 07, 2009 8:20:25 am PDT #27801 of 30000
'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"
All I can say about the funeral coverage is thank God for BBC America!
Steph L. - Jul 07, 2009 8:23:06 am PDT #27802 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I'd do it with just the exclamation point since the question is rhetorical and not meant to be answered. It's more like an interjection. That is, you say it with excitement (or emotion) rather than as a query.
That's certainly true in that case. Sort of a bad example since the question is rhetorical. Maybe I should have gone with "Is it the blue wire or the red wire!"
Oh dear god. QUESTIONS GET QUESTION MARKS, people!!! Don't make me bust out a ruler and rap your knuckles!
Dana - Jul 07, 2009 8:25:46 am PDT #27803 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Steph has no artistic soul.
Steph L. - Jul 07, 2009 8:30:28 am PDT #27804 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Actually, just no soul. I loaned it to a vampire and he never returned it.
StuntHusband - Jul 07, 2009 8:33:13 am PDT #27805 of 30000
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
Actually, just no soul. I loaned it to a vampire and he never returned it.
wrod
(glares at Jilli)
Ginger - Jul 07, 2009 8:38:51 am PDT #27806 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The exclamation point's role in life is to follow exclamations and interjections, e.g. Frak! Oh, no! It's alive!
If it's a question, it's a question, no matter how excited you are.
Remember, dear readers, if you haven't gotten them excited with the nouns and verbs, the punctuation isn't going to do it.