It is so Buffista-ish to take over a delurking thread with punctuation debates.
Mal: Which one you figure tracked us? Zoe: The ugly one, sir. Mal: Could you be more specific?
'Out Of Gas'
Delurking 1: Because we don't always check our e-mail.
javachik - Oct 11, 2009 9:08:13 am PDT #970 of 3094
Our wings are not tired.
Steph L. - Oct 11, 2009 9:09:28 am PDT #971 of 3094
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Argggh.
Sorry, lurkers.
Please to continue delurking.
P.M. Marc - Oct 11, 2009 9:13:56 am PDT #972 of 3094
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Yes! We shall still love you, even if you are wrong on the Internets not a fan of the serial comma!
Please, carry on delurking, and feel free to ignore us!
ehab - Oct 11, 2009 9:25:48 am PDT #973 of 3094
...all my words have been taken by my work. - Mala
This delurker is loving the debate!
Up with the serial comma!
Dana - Oct 11, 2009 9:27:45 am PDT #974 of 3094
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
HA HA the lurkers support us in the thread.
DavidS - Oct 11, 2009 9:32:24 am PDT #975 of 3094
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
My t-shirt:
"Serial comma? New York Times Stylebook, bitches!"
Matt H - Oct 11, 2009 9:38:53 am PDT #976 of 3094
Musikalicen Opfer
HA HA the lurkers support us in the thread.
...but rarely, seldom, or never in email.
clutches serial comma and holds it tight.
;)
P.M. Marc - Oct 11, 2009 9:42:53 am PDT #977 of 3094
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
"Serial comma? New York Times Stylebook, bitches!"
Newspapers have a lot of inane rules that boil down to saving column inches for the actual text and do nothing for clarity. Your point being?
Steph L. - Oct 11, 2009 9:43:28 am PDT #978 of 3094
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
"Serial comma? New York Times Stylebook, bitches!"
That would be AWESOME.
It makes it SO much easier to identify crackpots.
erikaj - Oct 11, 2009 9:44:32 am PDT #979 of 3094
Always Anti-fascist!
I'm confused by the comma thing. But I may have a parenthetical addiction(Not that there's anything wrong with that.) Sometimes there is, though.