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# Let's hear it for
fellow pedantic bastards!!

/carefuly checks he's put in all required apostrophes before posting message.
(, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 0:19, archived)
# Was that second exclamation mark really necessary?
(, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 0:20, archived)
# Stop calling him Mark!
(, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 0:23, archived)
# If he was doing that, he would have written:
Was that second exclamation, mark, really necessary?

realises setting oneself up for pedantic response ...
(, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 0:28, archived)
# You mean like this:
"Was that second exclamation mark, mark, really necessary?"

- doubtless that annoying paperclip would have turned up and pointed out "repeated word use" though.
(, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 0:34, archived)
# A person's name has a big letter at the beginning.
Now write it out 100 times, both of you.
(, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 0:37, archived)
# you win
:P
(, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 0:40, archived)
# Yes.
It took the phrase from a mere exclamation to an exclamation filled with with exuberance.

BTW: The subject to the original thread should be "I'm"... :)
(, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 0:24, archived)
# ...
it has been pointed out... i'm so very sorry.
(, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 0:32, archived)