Re: Out of the ashes. . .

["Michael Spooner" <mspooner@press.usu.edu>]

Katie, 

Gosh, your image of pummelling! people! with! exclamation! marks! 
I'm still seeing spots. (Reminds me of the Mikado's interest in making the 
punishment not only fit the crime but provide a source of innocent 
merriment, too.) So did you *know* that in proofer's lore, a nickname for 
the exclamation point is "bang"? 

>Latisha LaRue said:
> . . . should be surrounded by a ring of exclamation marks
> and plummeted until they see dots instead of periods (ok, so
> WEathers doesn't say it just that way, but you get the idea).

You go, La-TEESH-ay.  !

Michael

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And I said I want the moon, and the stars,
and I want em right now, right now.             Janis
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