http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46359 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sun, 26 May 2013 08:39:51 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46359#post-133467 Sun, 05 Aug 2012 10:10:02 +0000 godly1966 133467@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>#!@"*? brilliant </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46359#post-133447 Sun, 05 Aug 2012 00:36:06 +0000 Vertically Challenged Giant 133447@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Brilliant </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46359#post-133430 Sat, 04 Aug 2012 19:00:27 +0000 Al OPecia 133430@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Me (too? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46359#post-133428 Sat, 04 Aug 2012 18:41:04 +0000 woodymellor 133428@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Two things that drive me absolutely mad; question marks at the end of sentences that don't contain a question, and things in parenthesis with no close-bracket.</p> <p>I'm just glad I'm not the only one! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46359#post-133418 Sat, 04 Aug 2012 15:08:09 +0000 custard cream 133418@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Brilliant, original, creative and funny. Max. stars! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46359#post-133416 Sat, 04 Aug 2012 14:21:43 +0000 nickb 133416@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>BJ, that's pa(ren)thetic! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46359#post-133407 Sat, 04 Aug 2012 11:43:44 +0000 bonjonelson 133407@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I smell a commanist plot </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=46359#post-133397 Sat, 04 Aug 2012 08:25:56 +0000 nickb 133397@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>While most countries reported "enough inverted commas" for the "foreseeable future" Canada was plunged into another day of chaos after running low on full stops, and running out of commas altogether.</p> <p>"For those who depend on written language this is a sad day and we call on countries with spare capacity like Britain France Germany Italy Spain and the Netherlands to quickly help us out of this dilemma as we already have had cases of mental breathlessness among those who read aloud in their heads like my mother's ex neighbour in Winnipeg who has had no punctuation at all available to her since last Friday" began the Leader in the Ottawa Gazette.</p> <p>World punctuation supply has been in chaos since the accidental destruction of a year's supply of    colons  at the Headquarters of the World Punctuation Federation.  Use of textual emoticons (e.g.":-)") has also been blamed on "instability" in the system "with inverted commas remaining untouched" according to "experts".  In fact the current ready availability of "speech marks" as some call them has led to an unprecedentedly "cynical" tone in much of the so called "media".</p> <p>Some countries have addressed a "glut" of question marks by distributing them to young unemployed people to use experimentally at the end of non question type sentences? (There has also been a minor shortage in right handed brackets leaving digressions in mid air. Meanwhile lack of commas has hit supermarkets hard, with many customers unable to make shopping lists. And people with doublebarelled names have been asked to use online banking rather than sign cheques, which could lead to what experts call a danger of "hyphensiphoning".</p> <p>Those living in "Punctuation rich" countries like New Zealand have been accused of noisily "flaunting" their freedom to punctuate, despite denials.</p> <p>"Cr*p, cr*p, cr*p (and more cr*p!!!)" wrote N.Z.  columnist, J.M.F 0' Hara* "Who says?!....."</p> <p>*(known to his friends as "Bam-Bam") </p>