Re: Moving to new form of usenet ideas?

bud

Room temperature IQ, huh.

~v~~

bud

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Granted. Missing my usual quota of vodka when I replied.

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~v~~

bud

"And" is an independent clause conjunction.

Don't know where you learned grammar. In fact I can hardly remember where I learned grammar. But independent clause conjunctions can start sentences. And as far as I'm concerned so can dependent clause conjunctions under appropriate circumstances. The only thing which can't start sentences are people who only think they know what they're talking about.

~v~~

bud

Adm. Rickover said the same about me. Wasn't aware he knew Larking. Obviously he never knew you.

~v~~

the bud

You're a goddamned retard.

And your little dog too!

bud

the bud

Two spaces are recommended in non-proportional fonts like Courier New, a legacy from typewriter days. Some proportional fonts used in modern computers adjust the location of the period at the end of a sentence so that two spaces are not required to provide a distinctive space between sentences.

I still use two spaces anyway.

the bud

Or you might consider placing carets under the phrase objected to instead of whatever else strikes your fancy.

No, I'm a drunken ass. You're a pompous ass because you pretend you can tell the difference.

Oh gee, professor, not really? And what about usenet postings where servers have some difficulty with proportional spacing, where a choice has to be made between ragged paragraphs and colloquial punctuation? Next time your skirts get in a tizzy, complain to the servers not moi.

~v~~

the bud

I know. I've been meaning to speak to my faculty advisor about it but much like you he thinks reality is played on a Nintendo GameCube too.

~v~~

So lack of memory is a false memory? Hmmm.

Technically correct after a fashion. The problem being whether the verb should agree with the subject or object. In this case I chose the latter. But you really do seem to have an echo location problem with those carets.

Well you're certainly obvious if not much else.

~v~~

Talk is cheap.

Not exactly. No doubt you're an empiric capable of is grade school grammatical criticism which, fascinating as that may be construed, isn't very truthful.

~v~~

the bud

the bud

He did, dumbshit.

Utter bullshit.