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(...) Well, good, but really, you're questioning his spelling. (Sure, his grammar's bad, but you were just pointing out his spelling errors). That said, I find it horribly amusing that you misspelled "grammar" and wrote "tonite" instead of "tonight" (...) (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Ho-ho-ho! Another grammar cop! *You'd* better stand in line! ROSCO FUT: .o-t.fun (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) figures (...) the (...) Well, as the ;-) was meant to indicate that the errors in the last "thought" (not really a sentence, mind you) were intentional. (...) Well that was definitely as case of "open mouth insert foot here." (...) :-) (...) (...) (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.general, Dustin Tucker writes: <snip> (...) So, you've been "lruking" awhile eh? (...) (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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I loved the bit about needing another bracket to close off after the smiley, this is something I grapple with all the time! Usually my smileys are within the "()", and being a pedantic sort of person I always want to put the closing ")" on after the (...) (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I've grappled with that one, too [I've tried square brackets, but then the comment ends up looking like an editorial comment, rather than a parenthetical one ;-)]. Maybe squiggly brackets ({}) would help? Cheers Richie (and that full stop (...) (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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{In steps the cultural cop} Did you just say eh? You better be Canadian, throwin' a word like that around. Let's see some cultural ID, or you'll be forced to wear a touque. ;) (...) (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Adam, If he is from the Great White North, he should already be wearin' a touque. If not, he is a hoser, eh? Jude Somebody pass me the backbacon while I XFUT .off-topic.fun (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) There's a long-standing tradition on Usenet that when you make a grammar/spelling correction you have to make at least one intentional error in the correction. That way, you make sure that the thread stays off-topic... ;-) --Bill. P.S.: You (...) (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) that's so? (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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Im glad its not just me. you cant use squiggly brackets either or people will think you are sad usenet script kiddie using 'if' statements in his postings (and saying thinks like k3wl and 133t. :) ) I find a bit of spacing helps, or shall we make it (...) (23 years ago, 21-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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