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#135410 - 12/01/04 10:12 PM Re: Symbiotic Synchronistics
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13653	[white]WHISPERING[/white] Ain' no rule. It's a convention.
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#135411 - 12/03/04 05:28 PM Re: Symbiotic Synchronistics
themilum veteran Registered: 05/25/02 Posts: 1529 Loc: Aladamnbama the most watered s...	"Ain' no rule. It's a convention." Maybe you didn't notice, Faldage, we, the party of truth and consequences, have our own convention. If you and tsuwm and your gang - Musick, can play fast and furious with the King's own punctuations, well then, so can we. Watch me now... (Paul Violi's poem, reproduced below, inspired my invention of the punctuation mark -> i <-.) APPEAL TO THE GRAMMARIANS We the naturally hopeful, Need a simple sign For the myriad ways we're capsized. We who love precise language Need a finer way to convey Disappointment and perplexity. For speechlessness and all its infections, For up-ended expectations, For every time we're ambushed By trivial or stupefying irony, For pure incredulity, we need The inverted exclamation point. For the dropped smile, the limp handshake, For whomever has just unwrapped a dumb gift Or taken the first sip of a flat beer, Or felt love or pond ice Give way underfoot, we deserve it. We need it for the air pocket, the scratched shot, The child whose ball doesn't bounce back, The flat tire at journey's outset; The odyssey that ends up in Weehawken. But mainly because I need it - here and now As I sit outside the Caffe Reggio Staring at my espresso and cannoli After this middle aged couple Came strolling by and he suddenly Veered and sneezed all over my table And she said to him, "See,that's why I don't like to eat outside." ...and so that is why I invented the upside down exclamation point - " i " for the computer keyboard. I hope people don't confuse it with the small case i that is almost identical.
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#135412 - 12/03/04 07:26 PM Re: Symbiotic Synchronistics
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13653	the upside down exclamation point ¡Qué chiste! And as for conventions, you may use them or not use them, but you may wish to recognize them when used by others. It's always better to understand than it is not to understand.
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#135413 - 12/03/04 08:35 PM Re: Symbiotic Synchronistics
themilum veteran Registered: 05/25/02 Posts: 1529 Loc: Aladamnbama the most watered s...	*¡Mi chiste!* I swear, Dear Faldage, your spry sense of humor is only exceeded by your studied penchant to pontificate.
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#135414 - 12/04/04 10:45 AM We have a King? Why didn't someone tell me?
musick Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/24/00 Posts: 2658 Loc: Chicago	If you and tsuwm and your gang - Musick, can play fast and furious with the King's own punctuations... Does this make me the whole gang? ...Or taken the first sip of a flat beer, Or felt love or pond ice Give way underfoot, we deserve it. Talk about fast and furious! Connecting these 3 things with one "punctuaticon" seems rather brutal.
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#135415 - 12/06/04 08:33 AM Yes,we have a King and his name is Anu.
Anonymous Unregistered	"one thing follows another.." But not always. See tsuwm, I can't be punised. Anyone can post here without portfolio, even me. - Milum.
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#135416 - 12/06/04 11:50 AM Re: Yes,we have a King and his name is Anu.
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10462 Loc: this too shall pass	>I can't be punised. nice cross-threaded non sequitor, Stranger.
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#135417 - 12/07/04 10:26 PM Dare I?
Username stranger Registered: 12/03/04 Posts: 2	No, I daren't.
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#135418 - 12/08/04 05:47 PM Re: Dare I?
themilum veteran Registered: 05/25/02 Posts: 1529 Loc: Aladamnbama the most watered s...	Is no one curious? Who is Username And why doesn't she daren't? My guess is that she is Jackie. Why? Well, Jackie is the only woman with access to the internal machineries of Awad. Well then, how do I know that she is a woman? That's easy - no man would dare say "daren't".
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#135419 - 12/08/04 09:32 PM Re: Dare I?
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11578 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	'Twas not I. I will say here that I have been very puzzled as to how an unregistered person can post. I thought it was one of the rules that you had to.
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