Did you know that buddug spelled backwards is guddub? Ok, anyway.

I was - excuse me for a sec.... I had a thought but it was one of those thoughts you have where you realize you have a thought before you know what the thought is so you sort of have to wait for it to come out. Ok, I'm ready now.

You sort of remind me of one of those types who smokes pot but doesn't realize that the "brilliant insights" you get when you smoke pot are really neither brilliant nor insightful.

Somebody had to break it to you, I suppose.

Yeah, beestie... kind of like a rabid Tool fan.

WHOA! TOO FAR! TAKE IT BACK!

Wow Ibram, you've got a mean streak.:D

It's ironic how you celebrate individuality, yet you can easily characterize hundreds of millions of people.

That was an amusing troll; we're done now, thank you for your performance.

Bud, I spent some years as a secretary. The rule is that you put a space after a period, not before. Some old-school secretaries add two spaces.

I was not old school.

Of course, HTML makes that choice for you by turning all whitespace into a single space.

Some old school secretaries type Lowercase-L for One. That's a pain in the ass for analysis programs.

Hey, the troll is an individual, unlike us period-hugging conformists that can't think for ourselves. To think that I appeared in a production of Man of La Mancha and I still type like an American.

Some old school secretaries learned on typewriters that did not have a number one on the keyboard.

And don't get me started on proportional spacing typewriters. They were hell.

When I get in that mood... I can impale on sharp jabs of unexpected teenage angst and rage harnessed into brutal, cynical barbs.

I'm not old school nor a secretary bt I tooka typing course close to the end of elementary school and learned on an old typewriter that used to belong to my mother (we didn't have computer back then (in 94/95-or-so-ish) and it didn't have a number one on it. That used to amaze and amuse me to no end. I just couldn't fathom why anyone would make a typewriter without a one.

Not to mention Cervantes.
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I don't remember buddug giving you people permission to talk among yourselves.........I'm tellin'. :p

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Wolf , I have been giving some thought to this . The fact is that I have never learnt to type formally on any sort of machine . I learnt how to write with a quill , and my teachers always insisted on us leaving a space the width of our forefinger between the last letter of the sentence and the full stop . And the another forefinger between the full stop and the first letter of the next sentence .

I may seem like a sad anachronism , but at least the finger spaces are those corresponding to my old skinny kid fingers . Imagine if I wrote using the fat bloated fingers I now possess . It would look like this . Terrible . Even worse . Far worse .



Footfootfoot , you are right of course , but to be fair to old Clodfobble , Cervantes did try to blur the lines between the writer and the fictional characters he created . Mise en abyme and all that , if you will excuse my French .