[earlJam]

Elaine: Well, I was just curious why you didn’t use an exclamation point?

Jake: What are you talking about?

Elaine: See, right here you wrote “Myra had the baby”, but you didn’t use an exclamation point.

Jake: So?

Elaine: So, it’s nothing. Forget it, forget it, I just find it curious.

Jake: What’s so curious about it?

Elaine: Well, I mean if one of your close friends had a baby and I left you a message about it, I would use an exclamation point.

Jake: Well, maybe I don’t use my exclamation points as haphazardly as you do.

Elaine: You don’t think that someone having a baby warrants an exclamation point.

Jake: Hey, I just chalked down the message. I didn’t know I was required to capture the mood of each caller.

Elaine: I just thought you would be a little more excited about a friend of mine having a baby.

Jake: Ok, I’m excited. I just don’t happen to like exclamation points.

[Question Liberal Authority]

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dfwgator]

In honor of National Punctuation Day

Victor Borge - Phonetic Punctuation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUm787cz460

[lado]

There’s three things I hate about punctuation; commas, semicolons! and periods:

:)

[DaxtonBrown]

It is also National Grammar Police Day, National Spelling Police Day and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Day!!!!

:) Just teasing.

[Gator113]

Hmmmm, this, sounds, important!!!!

It’s a shame these same folks didn’t make a peep about MIA-POW day....

They said they would “Never Forget”, but they did.

[r9etb]

Frustrated by the large amount of mistakes he noticed in the newspaper...

Better grammar: "the large number of mistakes...."

[Eepsy]

Princess Leia

@(*-*)@

approves this comment.

[Allegra]

Ping! {cough! cough!}

[Political Junkie Too]

You know what bugs me? People who try to end a discussion by demanding that they had the final word on the matter by writing the word "Period" as its own sentence.

Period.

-PJ

[kittymyrib]

And we won’t even bring up its and it’s.

[Vaduz]

That soudes like something dirty.

[dfwgator]

[GreenAccord]

The question:

“Can you help my Uncle, Jack, off his horse?”

is vastly different than the question that doesn’t contain any commas.

[wyokostur]

This is Hugh and Series!!! unashamedly stolen from a fellow FReeper

[SoothingDave]

Back when I was goin’ to school,
I never learned a thing
All I did was daydream,
a-waitin’ for the bell to ring
I had a certain teacher,
I always tried to impress her
When she stood up in the classroom,
I would mentally undress her
Then one day I decided,
that I would write a little letter
She said the spellin’ was a masterpiece,
the punctuation could be better
I understood what she was saying,
I got the gist of her sentiment
She said “I don’t mean to be degrading,
“but here’s the way that it should’ve went:”

Chorus) I love you period
Do you love me question mark
Please, please exclamation point
I want to hold you in parentheses
I love you period
Do you love me question mark
Please, please exclamation point
I want to hold you in parentheses

Right on up to high school,
people said I was a writin’ fool
All my letters became really great,
with punctuation that was never late
But I was havin’ trouble meetin’ girls,
I never knew the things to say
Soon I had ‘em all overwhelmed,
when they heard me talk this way, like this:

Chorus) I love you period
Do you love me question mark
Please, please exclamation point
I want to hold you in parentheses
I love you period
Do you love me question mark
Please, please exclamation point
I want to hold you in parentheses

[MortMan]

I’ll be in a comma for the rest of the day.

[InvisibleChurch]

!

[Verginius Rufus]

None of this, of course, has anything to do with a major event in German history, the Punctation of Olmutz (Nov. 29, 1850).