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  1. G S Banner said:
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    > BTW for someone who claims "I do not think highly of people who misuse punctuation." you should
    > reflect on your incorrect use of quotation marks around my name.

    David Damerell said:
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    It's not incorrect when I think you might be a sock puppet.

    G S Banner said:
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    Got a source for that rule of punctuation?


    David Damerell said:

    Fowler.

    My edition of "The New Fowler's Modern English Usage" doesn't have an entry for "sock puppet". It
    does have an entry for "socker", though. It says, "see SOCCER".

    Am I missing a joke here? It seems that I usually do. ;-)
    --
    Michael MacClancy

  2. G S Banner said:

    Some idiot's still deleting the attribution lines.

    Quoted message said:

    I was responding to the use of the word "bigotry" in article
    <[email hidden]>, written by Michael MacClancy.


    We've been over this, and you still don't get it. Berk.

    Insults will not make it easier to lie to me about the content of _my own_ articles. I know
    what they say.

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    BTW for someone who claims "I do not think highly of people who misuse punctuation." you should
    reflect on your incorrect use of quotation marks around my name.


    It's not incorrect when I think you might be a sock puppet.


    Got a source for that rule of punctuation?

    Fowler.
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    David Damerell <[email hidden]> flcl?

  3. Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    >BTW for someone who claims "I do not think highly of people who misuse punctuation." you should
    >reflect on your incorrect use of quotation


    marks

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    >around my name.
    It's not incorrect when I think you might be a sock puppet.


    Got a source for that rule of punctuation?

    Fowler.
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