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9 Oct 2024 04:03:30 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Speaking of conspiracy theories  
From: Patrick Elliott
Date: 31 Jul 2009 23:27:35
Message: <4a73b627$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> Patrick Elliott <sel### [at] npgcablecom> wrote:
>> If anything, McCain could be considered a better case, since we "do" 
>> know he wasn't "physically" even on the same continent, at the time.
> 
>   I hate to be a grammar nazi, but those quotation marks take most of the
> seriousness of your writing away. I really think you should avoid misusing
> them.
> 
Then don't be. I typed the bloody thing five minutes before leaving for 
work, so didn't notice the problem.


>   In these types of sentences putting a single word in quotes usually means
> that you are using euphemisms or irony, that you are not literally meaning
> what the word is saying.
> 
Been, there, been told that, trying to stop doing it, but also tired of 
people whining about misused quotes, instead of the content of the post.

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       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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