I just got an email from Captain Monosyllabic, who wasted half a kilobyte of mail wondering if he could manage to utter the word "our."
Normally I'd give you a lecture on why the above period belongs in the quotes, and in which countries that does not apply, but the Captain had another point of urgency regarding his prior message, or as he put it, "my new post," no question about that comma either, in which he wrote:
quote:
... you can log on thus:
Name: syll
Pass: word (of course)
Of course, the "(of course)" is not part of the password, and I did not hesitate to tell the poor fool that he should have put the parenthetical on the next line. His reply, trying to get across the concepts of
parenthetical and
carriage return in small bits, was, to put it kindly, unintelligible.
Having had enough of this blithering fool, I told him that that the voice on the phone does not say, "ring-ring." He has not responded.