Dawn: I think a date should be in a real fancy restaurant, then champagne at a night club with a floor show, then ballroom dancing. Joyce: Unfortunately, we're not dating in a movie from the thirties.

'Get It Done'


Natter 70: Hookers and Blow  

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.


§ ita § - Jul 19, 2012 9:34:32 am PDT #14652 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

No, the second page isn't worth it. I didn't read it in detail, but since he sufficiently failed to make his case on the first, I was only skimming for a miracle recovery. It's not there.

One of the developers is being brilliant and helping me with things I'm doing for the first time. I'm so relieved. And another (who's not competent) has stopped chasing her tail after two and a half weeks, so what we put off from this weekend doesn't need to be put off from next. I do have to have a heavy accounting to boss in an hour and a half, but so far, things are okay.

But, good god, looking over to the email screen and seeing something titled "Sanity Check" does make me panic first, no matter who sent it. It is cool, though. It does prove we were right, and someone else cocked up.

My dash featured a GIFset where Cumberbatch says that the worst thing anyone called him (I guess he forestalls the going on and on and on a a lot) was "bendy dick cum on my baps". I think this raises a fandom responsibility to find a more offensive play on his name and bombard him with it at his next public appearance, no? Who's with me?


Ginger - Jul 19, 2012 9:34:39 am PDT #14653 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

So no sentences in parentheses is the final edict?

There can be sentences in parentheses.

If the sentence is complete within the parentheses, it has a period within the parentheses. If it's a phrase that's part of the sentence, the period goes outside of the parentheses.


Jesse - Jul 19, 2012 9:34:52 am PDT #14654 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Argh! Fucking vet I don't know called me after Homer's ultrasound to say there was nothing significant to see, but what was there is probably the chronic inflammation my regular vet predicted, but could also maybe be lymphoma? FOR FUCK'S SAKE. It's not lymphoma, right?


Jesse - Jul 19, 2012 9:36:28 am PDT #14655 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

In news about how I don't know what tumblr likes, Vortex, your Bikers Against Child Abuse post has 67 notes on it already, which puts it in the top three I think ever.

Edit: Make that 86.


§ ita § - Jul 19, 2012 9:37:03 am PDT #14656 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

If the sentence is complete within the parentheses, it has a period within the parentheses. If it's a phrase that's part of the sentence, the period goes outside of the parentheses.

If you have any sentences in the parentheses, does everything in the parentheses have to be complete sentences, and therefore capitalised from the git go? Whereas if it's a sentence fragment (and all alone, like this), there is no capitalisation, and no final period or other terminal punctuation?

Also, calling them brackets is both easier to type and a cromulent alternative, fuck alla y'all.


§ ita § - Jul 19, 2012 9:37:42 am PDT #14657 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Jesse, I totally called that one, for the record. It's in my reblog. Right there.


Amy - Jul 19, 2012 9:37:47 am PDT #14658 of 30001
Because books.

If the sentence is complete within the parentheses, it has a period within the parentheses.

You're right. I just think it starts to look cluttered and get confusing to read if you have too much in parentheses, or you use parentheses too much in one sentence or paragraph.


Amy - Jul 19, 2012 9:38:33 am PDT #14659 of 30001
Because books.

ita, like Steph said yesterday, brackets are different than parentheses. These are brackets: []


Jesse - Jul 19, 2012 9:38:54 am PDT #14660 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Jesse, I totally called that one, for the record. It's in my reblog. Right there.

Which I would know if I had noticed your reblog, but I couldn't because there are TOO MANY.


Ginger - Jul 19, 2012 9:43:08 am PDT #14661 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Everything doesn't have to be complete sentences, but it's really awkward to figure out how to punctuate it.

Whereas if it's a sentence fragment (and all alone, like this), there is no capitalisation, and no final period or other terminal punctuation?

Yes.

I suspect I'm considerably older than the author of that article, and everything he says is completely wrong, except maybe the part about gamers.