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Times Roman Font Announces Shortage of Periods

Posted on 03/28/2005 8:11:18 PM PST by EveningStar

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1 posted on 03/28/2005 8:11:19 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

That's a Steve Martin classic...


2 posted on 03/28/2005 8:14:07 PM PST by JennysCool (Terri may not be a persistent vegetable, but Michael is most certainly a persistent animal.)
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To: JennysCool

I had no idea. I got it via email years ago and never bothered to check.


3 posted on 03/28/2005 8:15:26 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Amazingly, i just got the collection it's in today! found it at a second-hand store! :-)


4 posted on 03/28/2005 8:26:00 PM PST by JennysCool (Terri may not be a persistent vegetable, but Michael is most certainly a persistent animal.)
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To: JennysCool
How about that. Thanks. :)
5 posted on 03/28/2005 8:29:14 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar
That mangled Bush quote was the last time Maureen Dowd saw three periods in a row.
6 posted on 03/28/2005 8:50:58 PM PST by Doctor Raoul (Support Our Troops, Spit On A Reporter)
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To: EveningStar

I don't know what the big deal is. I haven't had a period in years! ;)


7 posted on 03/28/2005 8:52:24 PM PST by CitizenM (An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded. Pope John Paul II)
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To: EveningStar

Wow! Thanks for the link!


8 posted on 03/28/2005 8:59:52 PM PST by JennysCool (Terri may not be a persistent vegetable, but Michael is most certainly a persistent animal.)
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To: EveningStar

This article is pointless.


9 posted on 03/28/2005 9:32:55 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Tagline schmagline.)
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To: EveningStar; mikrofon; martin_fierro

A veritable knowledge of font!


10 posted on 03/28/2005 9:45:19 PM PST by Charles Henrickson (Periodic tagline)
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To: EveningStar

I don't know why there would be a shortage... unless... nah... couldn't be... could it?


11 posted on 03/28/2005 9:46:05 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks (Sure you can trust the government... just ask an Indian...)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Maybe so, but there are unpteen hundreds of vanities a day lately. Finally, we have one that probably won't turn into a flame war... unless...


12 posted on 03/28/2005 9:47:12 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks (Sure you can trust the government... just ask an Indian...)
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To: EveningStar

"What's with all of these femine hygeine commercials? There are some rather fertile women around here. These ladies have more periods than a Hemingway novel. Copernicus used these chicks to set the lunar cycle." --- Dennis Miller


13 posted on 03/28/2005 9:47:40 PM PST by Clemenza (Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms: The Other Holy Trinity)
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To: Chad Fairbanks

I could make a cheap joke linking this to the Schiavo case, but I won't.


14 posted on 03/28/2005 9:48:52 PM PST by Clemenza (Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms: The Other Holy Trinity)
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To: Clemenza

I was this --> close to doing the same, but I decided not to.


15 posted on 03/28/2005 9:50:02 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks (Sure you can trust the government... just ask an Indian...)
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To: Chad Fairbanks
Representatives of the popular Times Roman font recently announced a shortage of periods

That does it! I say it's time for a Times New Roman!

16 posted on 03/28/2005 9:52:36 PM PST by Charles Henrickson (The Writers of Roman)
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To: EveningStar

It seems that we have these period shortages periodically [period] The answer is to develop more domestic period sources [period] Period [period]


17 posted on 03/28/2005 9:57:49 PM PST by Route66 (America's Main Street)
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To: Chad Fairbanks

Sorry, too subtle, LOL!



point n.

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4. A mark formed by or as if by a sharp end.


18 posted on 03/28/2005 9:58:26 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Tagline schmagline.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

ROTFL...


19 posted on 03/28/2005 10:09:44 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks (Sure you can trust the government... just ask an Indian...)
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To: Clemenza

"Today" hostess Katie Couric gets her colon checked.
It is not known if she is experiencing a shortage of periods.

20 posted on 03/28/2005 10:11:47 PM PST by Charles Henrickson (Is her hyphen still intact?)
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