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Super Scooter

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peyjenk said:
I'm sorry, but I fail to see how punctuation can be abused...
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That's how. :smile:

Anyway, I remember being one of the people that abused the privilege of punctuation. Never to be hurtful with them, merely for comedic effect with a certain wooden clipboard that shall continue to remain anonymous.
 
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*cough* Um, I think maybe your example isn't helping our case, Super Scooter. ><
 
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MrsPepper said:
*cough* Um, I think maybe your example isn't helping our case, Super Scooter. ><
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I agree. I think it is time to bind Super Scooter with a few [s and ]s, gag him with @s and beat him with !s while throwing *s at his head until we get our triple-?s back. :big_grin:

(just teasin' ya, pal!)

Anywhoo...

I still can't see how extra punctuation marks ever got to be such an epidemic that they had to be completely banned, even if some over-zealous posters (who shall remain *ahem* nameless) went a little crazy from time to time.
 
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Well, I'm actually kind of against the multiple punctuation now. I kinda see how it can be annoying.

But, "que sera, sera." I'm cool with whatever.
 
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I, too, think it can be annoying (I am an senior English major in college, so I can be pretty hard-nosed about punctuation), but think it is going a little overboard to prohibit them on an online forum.
 
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Super Scooter said:
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That's how. :smile:

Anyway, I remember being one of the people that abused the privilege of punctuation. Never to be hurtful with them, merely for comedic effect with a certain wooden clipboard that shall continue to remain anonymous.
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I seem to recall that clipboard later turned rotten and collapses...Poor thing...
 
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Super Scooter said:
But, "que sera, sera." I'm cool with whatever.
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Who's Sera? :stick_out_tongue:

What do we want? Allowance for the use of multiple punctuation marks! When do we want it? Whenever we can get it!

...I think we need a new strike writer. (No, NOT writer's strike.)
 
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I was recently looking at old fanfic threads and noticed a time when I was SO stunned by what had happened in the chapter that I was entirely inarticulate and, desperate for SOME means of communication, I began my post with nothing but punctuation: a line of periods, followed by a line of exclamation marks. Some were underlined, some bold, some italicized, some bright red... It was really a very profound statement, all things considered, and I DID follow it with real words. But it wouldn't be possible to make that post today, because of the punctuation restrictions... and that saddens me.
 
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