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Friday, September 24, 2010
[(".,';...—:-?!")]: Happy National Punctuation Day! Be sure to party in moderation, lest you start employing unnecessary quotation marks. The official NPD folks suggest crafting a haiku in honor of your preferred mark; here's mine to start:
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Stream of consciousness
ReplyDeleteAllows for liberal use
Of my much-loved dash
serial comma
ReplyDeletewhy can't you lawyers use it?
Just drives me insane
Oh, semi-colon
ReplyDeleteYou split all my lines in two;
For some, you just wink.
Sadly, the opening of The West Wing including Bartlet's poker game with punctuation invoked is not available online.
ReplyDeleteWhat the fucking hell!?
ReplyDeleteHow much do I freaking love
the interrobang!?
<span>The parenthesis
ReplyDeleteGives way--like winter--to spring
m--dash (my fave) blooms </span>
I love the comma
ReplyDeleteAlthough I am accused of
using it, too, much
In place of the "Bleep"
ReplyDelete"Punctuation My Dad Says"
Much $#*!ing better.
I recently saw:
ReplyDeleteWe're out of soda "Sorry"
Insincere at best
No use in grammar
ReplyDeleteBut it's the King of Unix
Put | that | in | your | pipe |
Always end questions
ReplyDeleteWith a slurping sound and pop.
Thanks, Victor Borge
SyFy portmanteau
ReplyDeleteMansquito, now Sharktopus
No hyphens needed
Only so many
ReplyDeleteApostrophes for our use
Waste not on purals
Interrobang--what!?
ReplyDeleteSounds like Jack Bauer porn plot
Guns and day-long sex