Lamest k race win ever

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)

To replace the Z4? That must suck.

The (gas) Sonata is what I got from enterprise. Perhaps the 1/4 tank is what it came with from the factory but it seems not.

To me it's a totally indifferent car that's like every other rental--punchy when you tap the gas up to 7 mph, fairly floaty in turns at speed, light steering feel, grabby brakes at low speed that don't stop you very well from higher speeds. I would complain about the size and visibility, but cars seem bigger when you haven't gotten used to where the corners are, which I hope I won't have the time to do.

I have a Z4? Sweet.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

Comma after a date?

January 14, 2011, is a date that will live in infamy. or
January 14, 2011 is a date that will live in infamy.

No comma.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

I have a Z4? Sweet.

Didn't you buy/lease one? Maybe the lease was up long ago. Or you didn't take our advice to jump on it.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)

Didn't you buy/lease one? Maybe the lease was up long ago. Or you didn't take our advice to jump on it.

I have never owned or considered one. I currently own one car: an Acura RDX. Before that it was an Acura TL.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

I have never owned or considered one. I currently own one car: an Acura RDX. Before that it was an Acura TL.

I'm crazy, then. But not about a comma after the year.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

Comma after a date?

January 14, 2011, is a date that will live in infamy. or
January 14, 2011 is a date that will live in infamy.

Not in that sentence.

TM

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)

I'm crazy, then. But not about a comma after the year.

You are. Why would you put a comma after the year? Why, Burger? Why?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

You are. Why would you put a comma after the year? Why, Burger? Why?

this convo reminds me of the last verse in Melt banana's "Key is a Fact that a Cat Bring."

you say,
"heres a key, get it right"
i dont want that 'cause i know
its not a key needed

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

You are. Why would you put a comma after the year? Why, Burger? Why?

Because there's a comma before the year as well, as there should be (and they act as parentheses). Not to mention that the second comma is called for in leading style guides (Chicago, AP, even the GPO).

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by dtb

A writer friend of mine called me "old school" when I wouldn't/couldn't break the habit of two spaces.

DEATH BEFORE ONE SPACE!

I was reading the article to someone over the phone, who was getting worked up in apoplectic indignation, and I got to the point of the article that read: "What galls me about two-spacers isn't just their numbers. It's their certainty that they're right."

Oh. How. We. Laughed.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

this convo reminds me of the last verse in Melt banana's "Key is a Fact that a Cat Bring."

you say,
"heres a key, get it right"
i dont want that 'cause i know
its not a key needed

This is your best work.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)

Because there's a comma before the year as well, as there should be (and they act as parentheses). Not to mention that the second comma is called for in leading style guides (Chicago, AP, even the GPO).

Fine, you got to Wikipedia before I did. Why the hell would you need to put parentheses around the year? And if you did, why not use parentheses instead of a comma, which is something different than parentheses. This is more fucked up than the nazi typographers telling me how to write a brief. Next thing, they be telling me it needs to be fully-justified.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Fine, you got to Wikipedia before I did. Why the hell would you need to put parentheses around the year? And if you did, why not use parentheses instead of a comma, which is something different than parentheses. This is more fucked up than the nazi typographers telling me how to write a brief. Next thing, they be telling me it needs to be fully-justified.

Fans of typography and good graphic design typically hate full justification. So there's that.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Fine, you got to Wikipedia before I did.* Why the hell would you need to put parentheses around the year? And if you did, why not use parentheses instead of a comma, which is something different than parentheses. This is more fucked up than the nazi typographers telling me how to write a brief. Next thing, they be telling me it needs to be fully-justified.

I'm surprised you don't avoid the whole issue by using the Eurotrash date style of 14 January 2011.

*No I learned this in 8th grade. Wikipedia confirmed what I'd known long ago.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally Posted by notcasesensitive

Fans of typography and good graphic design typically hate full justification. So there's that.

Why don't any book publishers listen to them?