Re: Out of the ashes. . .

[Latisha LaRue <kfischer@keller.clarke.edu>]

Hey, er, um, Michale, geeze, i think i made an err.  I meant to write
"pummel" rather than "plummet" but then you are not editing, are you???
katie

p.s.  nice quote from you in the new Bishop text.  figures.

On Tue, 13 May 1997, Michael Spooner wrote:

> 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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