Gordon Brown, or Tony Blair?
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
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Delurking 1: Because we don't always check our e-mail.
Tom Scola - Oct 04, 2009 2:09:08 pm PDT #380 of 3094
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
megan walker - Oct 04, 2009 2:12:59 pm PDT #381 of 3094
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Why was two spaces needed for typewriting, but not now?
tiggy - Oct 04, 2009 2:13:16 pm PDT #382 of 3094
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
for what it's worth, i was taught two spaces after a period on a computer.
Polter-Cow - Oct 04, 2009 2:16:35 pm PDT #383 of 3094
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
As was I. I was confused when I got to college and discovered it was okay to just use one space. It took me a while to break the habit. Hell, I still see it sometimes.
Zenkitty - Oct 04, 2009 2:16:42 pm PDT #384 of 3094
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
massive, multi-page macro
Steph, this, exactly! Couldn't live without it.
I now live in fear of posting more than a sentence here
oh, no, don't fear! Post! We like your sentences!
Yeah, what was with 2 spaces, anyway?
Amy - Oct 04, 2009 2:18:53 pm PDT #385 of 3094
Because books.
Yeah, what was with 2 spaces, anyway?
I think everything was given equal weight/space on a typewriter? So it was maybe to help distinguish that it was indeed a period, and the end of a sentence?
I'm not sure; there's a lot of typesetting from newspapers, etc., that predates me.
Barb - Oct 04, 2009 2:20:27 pm PDT #386 of 3094
“Not dead yet!”
for what it's worth, i was taught two spaces after a period on a computer.
Me too. As part of the prescribed style for academic papers.
Fay - Oct 04, 2009 2:35:57 pm PDT #387 of 3094
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Welcome davers! (Or BJ!)
...Kevin, dare I hope that it was Thatcher? Because that would make you a fucking HERO. But also you would probably have been a toddler, so probably not.
Una - Oct 04, 2009 3:02:50 pm PDT #388 of 3094
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.
Two spaces after a period! My mom drilled that into me on the computer, but I reckon she learned it on the typewriter. I used it religiously until grad school when a journal to which I was submitting a paper specified one in no uncertain terms. That was a tough paper to write, but by the end I was retrained. *space space* "Gahh!!" *backspace* I still prefer two, though.
(Dear and fluffy Lord do I love when y'all go all grammar / punctuation geek. Maybe that means there's something wrong with me, but I'm a biochemist, so I think that ship has sailed.)
JenP - Oct 04, 2009 3:06:59 pm PDT #389 of 3094
I still use two spaces, but I don't have editors to drive crazy with that habit, so I don't think I'll change it. I learned to type on a typewriter, but I think when I was in college we were still expected to use two spaces. Or not. I don't really know, but no one ever complained about it.