And it's all just completely gratuitous, right, Feste?
Feste pronounced:
> It's interesting to see the different approaches taken by the Mean Girls.
(You do realize "Mean Girls" is a name Barry dreamed up for his critics, don't
you?)
> Authfriend practices a kind of knee-
> jerk neg
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
It's interesting to see the different approaches taken by the Mean Girls.
Authfriend practices a kind of knee-jerk negativity that produces crude, nasty
attacks. In respect of Share (and Barry), she is All Nasty, All the Time. It
doesn't matter
What you and authfriend don't like is that Share does not respond to you in the
way you declare that she ought to, and that makes you mad and mean. You think
she should say what you have scripted for her, but of course things don't work
that way, and to expect them to is just another way of tryi
Feste, You. Do. Not. Have. A. Clue.
Feste the Clueless wrote:
> What you and authfriend don't like is that Share does not respond to you in
> the way you declare that she
> ought to, and that makes you mad and mean. You think she should say what you
> have scripted for her,
> but of c
First of all, I am seldom, if ever, truly mean; I do get mad sometimes. I do
tease others about themselves and only those who have no ability to laugh at
themselves whatsoever take offense, from what I've noticed. I make fun of
myself as well all the time. (Again, all in a manner and context so
Hey auth, what's with the weird punctuation? Doesn't. Make. Any. Sense. I can
only conclude that you have cracked under the recent pressure. First, Share
stands up to you. Then Richard J. Williams kicks your ass all over the park,
without much reply from you, and then Xeno and Barry put the boo
I think Feste must have taken one too many of his testosterone pills over
Thanksgiving.
Emily wrote:
> First of all, I am seldom, if ever, truly mean; I do get mad sometimes. I do
> tease others about themselves and only those who have no ability to laugh at
> themselves whatsoever take o
Um, looks a whole lot different from here, Feste. As for the "weird
punctuation," you must not get around the Web a lot; it's pretty much standard
practice these days for bloggers and commenters when they want to say something
emphatically.
Poor Richard has been exceedingly frustrated that h
Feste, do you see the humor in this?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
I think Feste must have taken one too many of his testosterone pills over
Thanksgiving.
Emily wrote:
> First of all, I am seldom, if ever, truly mean; I do get mad sometimes. I do
> tease others abou
Standard practice? You have got to be kidding. I have never seen it before. I.
Think. It. Is. Very. Bad. Writing. It's quite fun watching you being a punching
bag for everyone else and lamely trying to claim victory. As for the
testosterone pills, I don't need them. Just ask my girlfriend.
Good, it appears that you do. OTOH, you gain pleasure from holding a
perception that Judy is a "punching bag" getting beat up. Sounds kind of
macabre to me.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
Feste, do you see the humor in this?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wro
Feste tries again:
> Standard practice? You have got to be kidding.
Uh, no.
> I have never seen it before. I. Think. It. Is. Very. Bad. Writing.
LOL. Better learn to appreciate Web-speak for the sake of your blood pressure.
It's not going anywhere.
> It's quite fun watching you be
It's just a metaphor, hon.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
Good, it appears that you do. OTOH, you gain pleasure from holding a
perception that Judy is a "punching bag" getting beat up. Sounds kind of
macabre to me.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
Feste, d
Goodness me, just because it's a fad on the Web doesn't mean you have to follow
it. It. Makes. No. Sense. At. All. It's. Stupid. I thought you were the sort
of person who liked to uphold standards of good, effective writing, but alas,
it appears that I am mistaken. I. Am. Sad. About. That.
I don't "follow" it because it's a fad. I don't "follow" it at all, actually; I
very rarely use it. But it really isn't "stupid"--if you think about how it
would sound if you said it aloud, you may hear an echo of, say, your mother:
"You. Get. In. Here. Right. Now." It can be an effective way of
Are you still insisting that "it's pretty much standard practice these days for
bloggers and commenters when they want to say something emphatically"?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
I don't "follow" it because it's a fad. I don't "follow" it at all, actually;
I very rarely us
What is with you? I wouldn't have said it if I didn't mean it. But don't
overinterpret. It's not that every time someone wants to be emphatic, they use
it. Rather, it's "standard" in that it's used often enough that most readers
have seen it before and don't think it's weird; they understand wha
I don't think you have even remotely established this as "standard practice."
On the contrary, it's an unusual deviation from the norm. I wasn't impressed by
the link you provided. It was a lot of people asking about the use of periods
after every word, but not a single example that I could see.
No, I didn't suggest that the Google links were to examples. I was responding
to Richard's claim that it didn't exist, essentially, because he'd never seen
it. Obviously many people have seen it, but you wouldn't expect to see links to
examples, for pete's sake. As I said, the next time I come a
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