Look what we missed?

[tony]

I know this in unbelievable; but look what we missed?

How did this ever get by some of our members!

We missed National Punctuation Day (http://www.nationalpunctuationday.com/index.html)® yesterday?

[Barefoot]

I know this in unbelievable; but look what we missed?

How did this ever get by some of our members!

We missed National Punctuation Day (http://www.nationalpunctuationday.com/index.html)® yesterday?

Oh Tony!! :) How did we miss National Punctuation Day?? :( It is one of my favourite celebrations!#**! I'm sure Boomer will have something to say!

[cybrgeezer]

Also a day to honor the memory of Victor Borge.


:BigApplause:

[Boomer]

HEY!

I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT IS GOING ON HERE!

Mr. Tony, Mr. Admin, Sir is trying to find out if there are any English majors out there in TOTVland. Somewhere along the way, he got it into his head that I am an English major. He thinks I will be thrilled by the idea of "Punctuation Day."

Now, let me ask you this, Mr. Tony, Mr. Admin, Sir, have you ever seen anybody who can bastardize punctuation more than I can?

Yeah. Yeah. I know what you are thinking. I know you know that I bastardize the ellipsis all the time and that I am way too in love with the dash. And that I ask too, too many rhetorical questions -- not enough question marks........

But I also know you are thinking that there are English majors who think it is perfectly fine to use punctuation incorrectly, as long as they know they are using it incorrectly.

And I know you probably saw me try to get into that fun (Is that word an adjective?) rhyming thread, but that I did not read the directions and started writing two-liners instead of one-liners. And I know you think that English majors do not read directions. Or if they do read them, they read them after the fact.

One of these days, Mr. Tony, one of these days......I am going to go back through my own posts and I am going to find ALL the times you have tried to catch me showing signs of being an English major and I know you have been thinking that you can catch me in an out-and-out confession of same.

I have said it before and I will say it again, Mr. Tony, Mr. Admin, Sir, you cannot catch me in that confession of being an English major. You are looking a little like ol' Wile E. Coyote.

Beep Beep Boomer

[graciegirl]

National Punctuation day???

Sigh. Where are my beads??:1rotfl: I need more patience.

[K9-Lovers]

This is my favorite from the "National Punctuation Day" website. Too, too funny. I wonder if they paid for that cake after all?

http://i1018.photobucket.com/albums/af306/doggiewood/badpunct18_2.jpg

[graciegirl]

Lord.

Please protect us from overzealous pendants and angry grammarians.

Amen.

[tony]

Did I say anything about English majors!

[swrinfla]

This is one of those moments when I really, really wish that my late wife, a Junior High English teacher and definitely an English Major, were here to weigh in on discussions like this!

She'd have been appalled, frankly, at the frequent sloppy spelling, but would also have enjoyed the back-and-forth on TOTV!

SWR
:beer3:

[getdul981]

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure I punctuated yesterday, but then my memory isn't quite what it used to be.

[Boomer]

Also a day to honor the memory of Victor Borge.


:BigApplause:

Hi cybrgeezer,

Thanks for the reminder. When I read your post this morning, it sent me to You Tube.

I remember seeing Victor Borge on television when I was a little girl. I also remember thinking he was hilarious at the time. I guess that is when my parents first realized that I probably would not grow up to be Marie Curie.

What taps our individual sense of humor is interesting to me. The other day I ended up with one of those weird nerve pinch things somehow. I tried to stretch it out. I tried to hottub it out. I tried to Advil it out. Nothing was working so I looked up the symptoms on the internet, of course, and diagnosed myself with a little sciatica.

The article I read said that sometimes it helps to walk around with the foot on the affected side pointed far outward. So I did. And it did. But while I was walking like that, a lot, long steps, kind of fast, around my house, around my yard, around my patio, all I could think of was Monty Python's "Ministry of Silly Walks."

At a little party the other night, a conversation turned to Monty Python skits where I learned about "The Tobacconist," one that I had missed. It is the one where the guy purposely writes a translation dictionary by using outrageous phrases instead of the real translations. So I watched that one on You Tube, too.

Oh my goodness. Here I am digressing away this morning -- imagine that. And all I started out to do was to say thank you for the reminder about Victor Borge and share this link to his punctuation routine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF4qii8S3gw

Boomer