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To: Tax-chick
Does the Times give its writers prizes for writing stories with the fewest punctuation marks? “Two paragraphs - and you get three periods, one comma, and one semicolon!”

War-time rationing. It was written at the end of December and they'd already used up all their PMRCs* for the month.

*Punctuation Mark Ration Card

23 posted on 01/01/2015 1:21:17 PM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

LOL! I can just see reporters trading them around like Scrabble tiles. “Who has a dash? I used mine on the 15th. I’ll trade two apostrophes and a close-quote!”


24 posted on 01/01/2015 3:14:09 PM PST by Tax-chick (Our God is King!)
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