RE: My Spacebar is OK!

RE: My Spacebar is OK!

[Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)]

Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> Here's how it works:
>> 
>> Two spaces after ".", one space after ",".  No space before "." or
>> "," and it's "something" not " something " .
>                                         ^^^ obviously
> there are exceptions possible;)

Maybe even preferable. For the Wiki types, SpacesAreOptionalAnyway
(well, maybe not /entirely/ optional). And don't even get me started
about general misuse of quotation marks. :-)

-gsw

P.S. WatchOutForFallingHippos

Re: My Spacebar is OK!

[Lionel B]

Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote:
>
> And don't even get me started
> about general misuse of quotation marks. :-)

Actually, may I get you started?

In the UK this most common and iniquitous form of punctuation abuse has come to be known as "greengrocer's apostrophe":

    Fresh Tomato's,  £1.50/kg

> P.S. WatchOutForFallingHippos

Or, at my local corner shop:

    Falling Hippo's - this week only! -  12p/kg

Now that's some bang for your buck.

-- 
Lionel B

RE: My Spacebar is OK!

[Dave Korn]

----Original Message----
>From: Lionel B
>Sent: 13 June 2005 14:48

> Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote:
>> 
>> And don't even get me started
>> about general misuse of quotation marks. :-)
> 
> Actually, may I get you started?
> 
> In the UK this most common and iniquitous form of punctuation abuse has
> come to be known as "greengrocer's apostrophe": 

  Actually, it's known as the "greengrocers apostrophe", just to add a
delightfully ironic twist!

>     Fresh Tomato's,  £1.50/kg
> 
>> P.S. WatchOutForFallingHippos
> 
> Or, at my local corner shop:
> 
>     Falling Hippo's - this week only! -  12p/kg
> 
> Now that's some bang for your buck.

  Well, it depends how high they're falling from.  Just in terms of
gravitational potential energy, you're getting a lot more value-for-money
from each kilogram of hippo if it's falling off the top of a tower block
than if it's just been pushed off the edge of a coffee-table!

  Of course YMMV in a reversed-gravity field or if you have a tachyon-based
hippo.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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Re: My Spacebar is OK!

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 04:30:12PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>----Original Message----
>>From: Lionel B
>>Sent: 13 June 2005 14:48
>
>> Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote:
>>> 
>>> And don't even get me started
>>> about general misuse of quotation marks. :-)
>> 
>> Actually, may I get you started?
>> 
>> In the UK this most common and iniquitous form of punctuation abuse has
>> come to be known as "greengrocer's apostrophe": 
>
>  Actually, it's known as the "greengrocers apostrophe", just to add a
>delightfully ironic twist!

Yep.  This discussion is proceeding as per tradition.

Lets see.  Im wondering how long its going to last.

Re: My Spacebar is OK!

[Lionel B]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 04:30:12PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>> ----Original Message----
>>> From: Lionel B
>>> Sent: 13 June 2005 14:48
>> 
>>> Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> And don't even get me started
>>>> about general misuse of quotation marks. :-)
>>> 
>>> Actually, may I get you started?
>>> 
>>> In the UK this most common and iniquitous form of punctuation abuse
>>> has come to be known as "greengrocer's apostrophe":
>> 
>>  Actually, it's known as the "greengrocers apostrophe", just to add a
>> delightfully ironic twist!
> 
> Yep.  This discussion is proceeding as per tradition.
> 
> Lets see.  Im wondering how long its going to last.

Till it runs it's course.

Re: My Spacebar is OK!

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Lionel B wrote:

> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 04:30:12PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> >> ----Original Message----
> >>> From: Lionel B
> >>> Sent: 13 June 2005 14:48
> >>
> >>> Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> And don't even get me started
> >>>> about general misuse of quotation marks. :-)
> >>>
> >>> Actually, may I get you started?
> >>>
> >>> In the UK this most common and iniquitous form of punctuation abuse
> >>> has come to be known as "greengrocer's apostrophe":
> >>
> >>  Actually, it's known as the "greengrocers apostrophe", just to add a
> >> delightfully ironic twist!
> >
> > Yep.  This discussion is proceeding as per tradition.
> >
> > Lets see.  Im wondering how long its going to last.
>
> Till it runs it's course.

Dont you mean: "ti'll it run's it's course"?
	Igor
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RE: My Spacebar is OK!

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Dave Korn wrote:

> Just in terms of gravitational potential energy, you're getting a lot
> more value-for-money from each kilogram of hippo if it's falling off the
> top of a tower block than if it's just been pushed off the edge of a
> coffee-table!

You have a coffee table that can hold a hippo?! :-)
	Igor
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RE: My Spacebar is OK!

[Dave Korn]

----Original Message----
>From: Igor Pechtchanski
>Sent: 13 June 2005 18:06

> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
> 
>> Just in terms of gravitational potential energy, you're getting a lot
>> more value-for-money from each kilogram of hippo if it's falling off the
>> top of a tower block than if it's just been pushed off the edge of a
>> coffee-table!
> 
> You have a coffee table that can hold a hippo?! :-)
> 	Igor


  No, I have a coffee table that _can't_ hold a hippo.  That's why the hippo
is in free-fall from a not-very-great-height!



    cheers,
      DaveK
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RE: My Spacebar is OK!

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Dave Korn wrote:

> ----Original Message----
> >From: Igor Pechtchanski
> >Sent: 13 June 2005 18:06
>
> > On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
> >
> >> Just in terms of gravitational potential energy, you're getting a lot
> >> more value-for-money from each kilogram of hippo if it's falling off the
> >> top of a tower block than if it's just been pushed off the edge of a
> >> coffee-table!
> >
> > You have a coffee table that can hold a hippo?! :-)
> > 	Igor
>
>   No, I have a coffee table that _can't_ hold a hippo.  That's why the
> hippo is in free-fall from a not-very-great-height!

Well, then, there'd be hardly any need to *push* the hippo off the edge,
would there?
	Igor
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Re: My Spacebar is OK!

[Lionel B]

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
>
>> ----Original Message----
>>> From: Igor Pechtchanski
>>> Sent: 13 June 2005 18:06
>>
>>> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
>>>
>>>> Just in terms of gravitational potential energy, you're getting a
>>>> lot more value-for-money from each kilogram of hippo if it's
>>>> falling off the top of a tower block than if it's just been pushed
>>>> off the edge of a coffee-table!
>>>
>>> You have a coffee table that can hold a hippo?! :-)
>>> Igor
>>
>>   No, I have a coffee table that _can't_ hold a hippo.  That's why
>> the hippo is in free-fall from a not-very-great-height!
>
> Well, then, there'd be hardly any need to *push* the hippo off the
> edge, would there?

Personally, I've had to ban them from the coffee table, since they always leave the newspapers messed up so you can't
find the front page.

-- 
Lionel B

Re: My Spacebar is OK!

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Lionel B wrote:

> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
> >
> >> ----Original Message----
> >>> From: Igor Pechtchanski
> >>> Sent: 13 June 2005 18:06
> >>
> >>> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Just in terms of gravitational potential energy, you're getting a
> >>>> lot more value-for-money from each kilogram of hippo if it's
> >>>> falling off the top of a tower block than if it's just been pushed
> >>>> off the edge of a coffee-table!
> >>>
> >>> You have a coffee table that can hold a hippo?! :-)
> >>> Igor
> >>
> >>   No, I have a coffee table that _can't_ hold a hippo.  That's why
> >> the hippo is in free-fall from a not-very-great-height!
> >
> > Well, then, there'd be hardly any need to *push* the hippo off the
> > edge, would there?
>
> Personally, I've had to ban them from the coffee table, since they
> always leave the newspapers messed up so you can't find the front page.

Yeah, I feel your pain.  My cat does that, too.
	Igor
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RE: My Spacebar is OK!

[Dave Korn]

----Original Message----
>From: Igor Pechtchanski
>Sent: 13 June 2005 18:34

> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
> 
>> ----Original Message----
>>> From: Igor Pechtchanski
>>> Sent: 13 June 2005 18:06
>> 
>>> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Just in terms of gravitational potential energy, you're getting a lot
>>>> more value-for-money from each kilogram of hippo if it's falling off
>>>> the top of a tower block than if it's just been pushed off the edge of
>>>> a coffee-table!
>>> 
>>> You have a coffee table that can hold a hippo?! :-)
>>> 	Igor
>> 
>>   No, I have a coffee table that _can't_ hold a hippo.  That's why the
>> hippo is in free-fall from a not-very-great-height!
> 
> Well, then, there'd be hardly any need to *push* the hippo off the edge,
> would there?
> 	Igor


  It wasn't pushed, it jumped!


    cheers,
      DaveK
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RE: My Spacebar is OK!

[One Angry User]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Dave Korn's computer deigned to emit the following stream of bytes:

> ----Original Message----
> >From: Igor Pechtchanski
> >Sent: 13 June 2005 18:34
>
> > On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
> >
> >> ----Original Message----
> >>> From: Igor Pechtchanski
> >>> Sent: 13 June 2005 18:06
> >>
> >>> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Just in terms of gravitational potential energy, you're getting a lot
> >>>> more value-for-money from each kilogram of hippo if it's falling off
> >>>> the top of a tower block than if it's just been pushed off the edge of
> >>>> a coffee-table!
> >>>
> >>> You have a coffee table that can hold a hippo?! :-)
> >>> 	Igor
> >>
> >>   No, I have a coffee table that _can't_ hold a hippo.  That's why the
> >> hippo is in free-fall from a not-very-great-height!
> >
> > Well, then, there'd be hardly any need to *push* the hippo off the edge,
> > would there?
> > 	Igor
>
>   It wasn't pushed, it jumped!

Got an alibi?

OAU

Re: My Spacebar is OK!

[zzapper]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 11:58:27 -0400 (EDT),  wrote:

>On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Dave Korn's computer deigned to emit the following stream of bytes:
>
>> ----Original Message----
>> >From: Igor Pechtchanski
>> >Sent: 13 June 2005 18:34
>>
>> > On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
>> >
>> >> ----Original Message----
>> >>> From: Igor Pechtchanski
>> >>> Sent: 13 June 2005 18:06
>> >>
>> >>> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> Just in terms of gravitational potential energy, you're getting a lot
>> >>>> more value-for-money from each kilogram of hippo if it's falling off
>> >>>> the top of a tower block than if it's just been pushed off the edge of
>> >>>> a coffee-table!
>> >>>
>> >>> You have a coffee table that can hold a hippo?! :-)
>> >>> 	Igor
>> >>
>> >>   No, I have a coffee table that _can't_ hold a hippo.  That's why the
>> >> hippo is in free-fall from a not-very-great-height!
>> >
>> > Well, then, there'd be hardly any need to *push* the hippo off the edge,
>> > would there?
>> > 	Igor
>>
>>   It wasn't pushed, it jumped!
>
>Got an alibi?
>
Mankind reached its peak with the film "Police Academy goes to Moscow" ever since we have been in
sharp decline,  Hippos who have been slumbering in Custard Pools for millennia have been evolving at
top speed... and yet you see fit to mock them!!!

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RE: My Spacebar is OK!

[Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> Yep.  This discussion is proceeding as per tradition.
> 
> Lets see.  Im wondering how long its going to last.

Why is CGF so obsessed with our obsession with punctuation?

:-P

RE: My Spacebar is OK!

[Dave Korn]

----Original Message----
>From: Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
>Sent: 14 June 2005 14:41

> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> Yep.  This discussion is proceeding as per tradition.
>> 
>> Lets see.  Im wondering how long its going to last.
> 
> Why is CGF so obsessed with our obsession with punctuation?
> 
> :-P


dont yuo meen 'obssesed'?


    chears,
      DaveK
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Re: My Spacebar is OK!

[Carlo Florendo]

Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote:

>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>  
>
>>Yep.  This discussion is proceeding as per tradition.
>>
>>Lets see.  Im wondering how long its going to last.
>>    
>>
>
>Why is CGF so obsessed with our obsession with punctuation?
>
>  
>


Don't you get it?   It's fun.

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RE: My Spacebar is OK!

[Dave Korn]

----Original Message----
>From: Carlo Florendo
>Sent: 15 June 2005 01:32

> Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote:
> 
>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> Yep.  This discussion is proceeding as per tradition.
>>> 
>>> Lets see.  Im wondering how long its going to last.
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> Why is CGF so obsessed with our obsession with punctuation?
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> Don't you get it?   It's fun.


ITYM   "Do'nt you get it.its fun"       hth!



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      DaveK
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RE: My Spacebar is OK!

[Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> I should have known not to get involved in this kind of thing, though.
> It *ALWAYS* devolves into "I don't use two spaces" and "You
> made a mistake so why are you telling me what to do" scenarios.

But they are just scenarios for fun.

:-)

Re: My Spacebar is OK!

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> Here's how it works:
> 
> Two spaces after ".", one space after ",".  No space before "." or ","
> and it's "something" not " something " .
                                        ^^^ obviously
there are exceptions possible;)

Gerrit
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Re: My Spacebar is OK!

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 05:05:24PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>Here's how it works:
>>
>>Two spaces after ".", one space after ",".  No space before "." or ","
>>and it's "something" not " something " .
>                                       ^^^ obviously
>there are exceptions possible;)

I was actually setting out the examples for effect and was trying to use
a minimal number of words since the person was a non-English speaker.

I should have known not to get involved in this kind of thing, though.
It *ALWAYS* devolves into "I don't use two spaces" and "You made a mistake
so why are you telling me what to do" scenarios.

cgf