Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

i forget mmmm3945's style, but had no idea he was thought of a douche bag. was this a widely held opinion?

Yeah, but it's kind of unfair. He would have been fine if he had a decent mentor. [...][come and get me, Gatti...]

[robustpuppy]

Originally Posted by Adder

Feel free to call me flaccid minded, but yes, I have indeed used the ellipsis in that way.

But for the record, it wasn't the ellipsis using that bothered me. It was the brackets around them.

{{{Hugs.}}}

[robustpuppy]

Originally Posted by Adder

Feel free to call me flaccid [...]

!!!

[Gattigap]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

I use it to replace "yada yada yada" at the end of my sentences....

I am sorry to hear this, in part because we already have operatives in the ChicagoLand area. After all, I liked you.

Wonk, please execute Operation Pastrami.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Gattigap

It rarely happens on this particular board, but occasionally one will see ellipses at the end of the sentence to highlight the post's implied punch line. This Crayola-colored technique is the sign of a flaccid mind and reflects the comic timing of Fozzie Bear.

All of which is to say, please feel free to continue with this let's-use-ellipses-annoyingly-to-irritate-Adder theme, but if during that time, anyone uses the ellipsis to higlight some lame punchline I will organize a coalition of the like-minded to hunt you down and fucking kill you.

Carry on.

Gattigap

As linkage, they're ideal. Say you want to shovel fifty thoughts into a space that ought to fit twenty... Ellipses! You can chop formal sentences down to phrases and create a paragraph that bounds forward where normal language would start/complete thought/finish/start again. Good way to make shit seamless.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by robustpuppy

!!!

Strangely, I have never found grammar discussions to be all that stimulating.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Good way to make shit seamless.

What are you eating?

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

What are you eating?

Corn.

[Gattigap]

Originally Posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone

Yeah, but it's kind of unfair. He would have been fine if he had a decent mentor. [...][come and get me, Gatti...]

We have no operatives in the Pacific Northwest at the moment, so you might have to wait a bit.

Alternatively, we could stage a to-the-death Prius road rally. Winner gets to pry the battery from the dead carcass of the loser and convert to a pure-electric car.

[cheval de frise]

Originally Posted by Gattigap

Wonk, please execute Operation Pastrami.

And that's the last we'll see of Wonk. Thanks a lot, Gatti.

CDF (disturbed by the prospective "Operation Pastrami" visual... --- ... (morse code ellipses special))

[notcasesensitive]

http://renz-o.blogspot.com/

[spree... people at some point paid money for these pictures...]

[cheval de frise]

Originally Posted by notcasesensitive

http://renz-o.blogspot.com/

[spree... people at some point paid money for these pictures...]

That's what happens when your fashion designers drop acid. Coke (in the '80's) wasn't much better. It took until the '90's (heroin and crystal meth) to stage a full recovery.

CDF

[ThurgreedMarshall]

I would move to Brazil.

http://www.heavy.com/video/57890#/channel/214003

(Damn! But no nudity.)

TM

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

i forget mmmm3945's style, but had no idea he was thought of a douche bag. was this a widely held opinion?

Yes. Best example?: "I like to keep track of how many men the girl I'm dating fucked. How do I tell her her number is wrong because she left out the guy who raped her?"

TM

[cheval de frise]

Originally Posted by robustpuppy

This is going to be awesome ... !!!! If there's anything I love .... it's gratuitous use[s] of ellipses . . . when other punctuation would be more appropriate . . . . In fact, whenever my husband and I drive by the Ellipse ... I pause ... and say ... D.C. needs more of those!!! And he says ... "[t]hat's a real knee-slapper!" LOL!!!

Let go of the electric fence.

CDF