Making its Mark!

!!!! };-)

There is a book titled Eats Shoots and Leaves, work out your own punctuation.

 "What other single mark could be as expressive?"

"¡"

 

Sounds very good Hazel! Madame Bovary just arrived so that will be a perfect follow-up read. Goodnight Sweets!

Sorry, forgot to say, the book is about punctuation & it's very funny. Sadly, not to hand, as I lent it to somebody. All my books have a sticker inside that says "This book belongs to Hazel Leese- & all her friends"
There is some biblical reference to generosity that says "Cast your bread upon the waters, and it will return unto you after many days" - well, who wants soggy bread? but some of my books do come home eventually.
Nice to see you there JaxZ.

Afterthought- a semi-colon is a very nasty operation.

=~-!   now I have said a bad word

and as for todays vote, my favorite exclamation is "stop that some more,hurry,NO,YES,YES!"

morning bebe! rain?

HOWDY CUUKOO !!!   You're up kinda early this morning, No?
 
 
I'm fixin on goin' to bed a little early ... Y'all have a Good Day .......

my clock is turned around ivan.....the positive is i get a lot done.   sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite...g

CUUKOO-- Good morning dear. It does look like it. I wish it would only rain w/out the other stuff. Stay dry........................
 
IVAN--- I love Ho Lee Socks & have stolen it for my use on occasion. I hope you don't mind???..........
 
RY--- Hmmmmmmmmm............ very interesting post.................

I meant to say, "Good morning dear!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
 
Now I'm on OT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

JALOPKIN~ in our house, it was "You Purple Triangle!" I think Ho Lee Socks would have been much more amusing, as I was raised in a Vicarage. I recall overhearing a "domestic" between my parents - Dad, who was warming his backside in front of the open fire had told my Mum to "Go to hell" to which she replied "That will be fine, I won't be able to get near the fire for vicars" Spot on, Ma, that riposte deserves exclamation marks.

I wonder what it says that Spanish uses TWO exclamation marks, the first of them invertedas in ---" ¡ No me digas !"

Another afterthought- is a exclaim something to do with a divorce settlement?

Since the written word can be elegant and emotional, but there is no way to convey body language, I think the exclamation point has it's place alongside all of the other punctuation marks. Alas! conveys drama. Alas, conveys  regret, Alas. can mean sarcasm or resignation.
 
Yay.

I recently read the statement "Punctuation saves lives."Cited as an example were these two sentences: "Let's eat, grannny." and "Let's eat granny."and where would OMG be without the Exclamation?OMG!

A favorite exclamation from my childhood........ "Hey!, Hey!, Hey!a home run! as announced by the Immortal Jack Brickhouse which was later replaced with "Holy Cow!" by Harry Carey whenever one of my Cubbies hit one out on Waveland Avenue. 

Now when it comes to expletives, my Dad must reign as the all time King of the South-Side ‘cos he wove together some strings of expletives and exclamations that are still floating over lower Lake Michigan even to this day.

IVAN's ‘HOLEY SOCKS!" is a winner too.

Good Morning! He shouted from the back yard.

YIKES!

EEK!

EEEEYYYYEEEWWWW!

OOPS!

and, the freshly immortal    D'OH!

"It might be... it could be... IT IS! A hoe-wome ru-unnn!"

I miss Harry Caray. I miss Bill Safire. I miss Robin MacNeil and he isn't even dead.


Yesterday, two young men came to deliver the new washer and dryer.

One was experienced and the other, while it may not have been his first day, clearly had never lugged those appliances down basement stairs.

He had suggestions about how it might be done more easily but the experienced guy patiently guided him along and they got the old ones out and the new ones in in the traditional careful way letting the appliance dolly do much of the work.

With the dryer tilted on the dolly, the pro waited for the new fellow to install the coarsely threaded leveling feet on all four corners... waited and waited.

Finally, I with a better view of what the new man was up to, quietly suggested: "You might want to try turning that the other way."  Probably a good place to have omitted the exclamation mark.

And I miss Harry Caray, too, it would be purely anti-social not to miss him, and you know who I miss as much:  Phil Georgeff, the voice of Chicago racing.  At Arlington Park Racetrack, spring afternoons when we were supposed to be in school, but instead we went to the races.  It was the better choice.  And when you heard "And they're off..." from Phil Georgeff over the loudspeakers, it was all good and lots of fun and Phil Georgeff, just the mention of him, makes me smile. 
 
He was at Hawthorne too, but I was only at Hawthorne twice, that's a different kind of racing, I like Arlington Park the best.
 
As for dead or not, I thought Georgeff was.  He's not.
 
Good late morning, Village!!!!!

Stoney:   I  miss  Studs  Terkel.......  With  an  without  the  Pulitzer  Prize,  ordinary people  could  approach  him,  and  he  would  politely  listen.....listening  first,  then  and  only  then  running  your  mouth,  the  lost  art  of  civility....

I love the exclamation point, but I try very hard not to overuse it. I have even been known to use "?!" and had no idea there had ever been a movement afoot to make it official. It definitely has its place. But multiple exclamation points (!!!)? Puh-lease! 

I really like "!!!!". That cluster gets the point across.

On may of the "viral e-mails" I get from friends, there will be multiple exclamations in the SUBJECT head.  "THIS IS IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"  Does using all caps and exclamations make it any more important than, "This is important," without any other punctuation?  I am concerned that our language is being watered down by the over-use of incorrect punctuation and spelling "shorthand" in text messages, e-mails, and blogs.  But, sometimes, the need for attention is warranted, and the use of an exclamation is justified, as in "Your car is on fire!"  And, for computer geeks, the "bang" (!) is indicative of code commenting or an operand, depending on the computer coding used.  Oh, my.  The limitations of our language!

Sometimes when reading it seems like it might be helpful to place an exclamation point at the beginning of the sentence so that it could be read from the onset in the right spirit and the right tone of voice ..... You could also end the sentence on that note to maintain balance and harmony with all of the othe punctuations who may begin to feel a bit insecure and under appreciated with so much attention being bestowed upon the !...... but as they say in Peoria.....! Eff'em if they can't take a joke! Peace out!

Peter, I'm sure you know Spanish speaking people put an upside down exclamation point in front of a sentence needing emphasis, followed by a right side up one. Same for question marks.... But who maintains all of that extra software? Now we have software that "translates" instantaneously for us, except it's terrible with metaphors, subtleties.....

"Subtle  nuiances  of  French  Victorian  Era  poetry,"    translated  by  Hal  the  computer....

I  have  a  paperback  book,   translated  into  Russian.   "Think & Grow  Rich,"   by  Napoleon  Hill.   The court''s  interpeter,  Russian,  wants  her  piece  of  the  American  dream...    She  needs  me  in  an  appropriate  moment  to  tell  her  that  a  "striped  bass"  is  NOT  a  musical  instrument.....

If, in a crowded theater, you smell smoke and see flames... then, what.

"Excuse me everyone (clap, clap, clap) if I might have your attention for just one moment... comBUSTion!"     Nah.

Bert,

While an undergrad at UK, my younger brother drove Studs all around Kentucky to conduct interviews and marveled at how he was able to get the most reluctant people to open up and say things that they probably had not known about themselves.

A very likable man who respected his interviewee.

Bert,

And then again:

http://www.amazon.com/Zebra-Stripe-Electric-Guitar-Accessories/dp/B000HZK3PU

HQW! ON! EARTH! could we have ever read,or seen BATMAN!?!  POW!   ZOWIE! BLAM!CRASH!

Comic books,and Mad magazine,these may be a unifying trait shared by most here that are at least this tall....

Bert - You taught me something new about the Spanish upside-down exclamation point...... I like it!

I think extra !!!! exckanation points have the same effect as repeatedly depressing the elevator button ....... it slows itself up even more just to make a point..... or something along those lines.

BEBE:   Darlin', you can have anything I've got that you want ....... Larry Gelbart stole that phrase from me over forty years ago, and he used it in almost everything he wrote for TV ... It was a major piece of Dialogue for a kid from Ottumwa , Iowa ... went there once on a Lark, to see if I could find someone in Ottumwa named, O'Reily ... thats how I discovered Templeton Rye Whiskey ... We make a Pilgrimage once a year now, to get another Case or three, since we can't get it anywhere else ...  Anyhow, you are most welcome to it .......
 
HAZEL:  I am not quite sure what a, "Purple Triangle" is ... unless there is somewhat of a difinitive discriptive in the thing itself .......  I love the Zinger from your Mom !!!  That is really funny and the wit reminds me a lot of a Gal named, Dorothy Parker who used to be a piece of the furniture in the haunts of the Blingons of the 40's and 50's, mostly in New York ... Top Marks, Mom !!!
 
PETER LAKE:  HEY  HEY  HEY  is a Kabbalistic Mantra with which one declares to the Universe (satan, actually) out loud, that one is Strong and Confident, Confident in his Strength, and Strong in his Confidence (Jews have always been prone to Overkill and Over-Statement, just for Good Measure ... Basically it is Keynesian Economics; If one is good, two is better, and three is better still ...)(that is probably why I have eleven Cars) Altho', I doubt that John Maynard Keynes ever spit three times after any pronouncement, to ward off the Ayin Hara .......
 
STONEY:   Excellent Point !!!  but, I'm a little worried about the "Clap"  part ... I knew a fellow picked it up in a Drive-In Movie, but never ina a Theatre .......
 
PARK4:   Harry Caray was indeed, a most lovable and Genuine individual ... I remember how it used to pain him so ... to HAVE to say something unkind, about anybody ... More than Baseball lost out when he passed ....... I wonder if where he is now ... he knows where Wisconsin is getting all the Pre-Historic Fish from ???   I used to Fish on Lake Geneva, with Tommy Hannah (Grandson of the Mensch) who lived on the Lake, and we never saw anything like these monsters y'all are pullin' up ....... Seems like Lake Geneva is where all the doomed mothers-in-law are sent, looking at the mouths on these Fish ... Tune In Tomorrow ... Gives a whole new meaning to the Dago expression, "Sleepin' wid duh Fish"
 
CUUKOO:  So, your days and nites are mixed up ???  So you still got days and nites !!!
You're just restless from bein' so still for so long ... Enjoy it while you can ... Like Peter Lake, you're gonna hafta be up and flittin' again very soon ....... It is amazing how we find ourselves at times, praying for a little boredom .......  You'll be fine !!!
 
 

IVAN - that explains the long effectiveness of the curse of the goat on our Cubbies..... satan was summoned after every Ernie Banks, Billy Williams and Ron Santo home run.  Ypu are in top form today good sir, which isn't rare at all.

ivan, i concur.  i haven't enjoyed the down time as much as i probably should have.......?????!!!!!do dot's count as !!!!!!.......??????  so while i'm down, how's about an evening in the club car peter lake.....!!!!!!??????? we will find park4 and skip some rocks....?????!!!!!!stop and look at stars and have the best food ever dreamt of.....!!!!!!??????

Peter Lake,

There have been people over the decades in countless tens and twelves who have had me to thank for muscling forward to push that elevator button just so.

They may have shifted and mumbled but they all got into the fn car when it showed up.

They have been, I dare say, surprisingly muted in their expressions of gratitude.

cuukoo1,

Nights are days, days are nights... just keep us informed. It was hell not knowing there for a while. Seeya down on the dock.
S

JALOPKIN~ Purple triangle was just a thing my parents came up with & told us kids it was very rude It worked, & is still a family joke among my siblings..My Mom is now 84, and uninhibitedlty caustic on all subjects. Ahhhh... Dorothy Parker, meet my Mom- no contest!

 
Ivan,

With all of this drink mixing going on, was that DHCP card in your shirt pocket the whole time? Would you tell us if it had been?

Glad to see you're cookin' today!

Hello dear Ivan!  I think I love you.  You've said so much good today.  You make the best sense.  I do love you, we'd all be less without you.
 
Cuukoo!!! yes, indeed, I'm so ready for a night ride.  It's cool and a little damp, we need to make sure the quilts and quilted pillows are still in the compartments from the last cool evening excursion. 
 
I've just got back from taking 113 pictures around the Lake, it's my therapy as I wander home from physical therapy.  So now I'm accomplished but lazy, and I can't think of a better way to end the day than with friendship, and warmth on our favorite mode of transportation, with PeterLake conducting, and Stoney regaling, and Ivan practising his juliffs on all the rest of us.
 
I need to find my best sweats  (an oxymoron but so what), and I'll be down in a little while.
 
All aboard!
 
 
 

Penn, I hope you come back for a nighttime ride tonight.  I don't think last night's got out of the station, but tonight -- quiet piano music, soft talk and laughter, and juliffs, I promise you.
 
Please come.
 
or
 
Please come!
 
whichever you like, just be there, okay?
 
 

Stoney: (GREAT whiskey by the way, I wote it down) re: your novice appliance installer - When I was at AF weapons school the huge, beefy master-sergeant training me leaned very close to my ear one day to whisper "I'm only going to say this ONCE. Righty tighty, lefty-loosey." I never forgot it.

Stoney: Obviously liked it too much! "wrote it down."

 
Park4,

Speaking of the track, as kids, we never tired of listening to one boy's recording of the call of a famous race.

Cruelly, we applied its most famous line to the lumpiest, slowest, latest kid in the neighborhood: " He-ere comes Whirlaway!"  

Blast from the past to be reminded of Mad Magazine & Alfred E Neuman! A friend of mine produced a child that looked exactly like Alfred & I had difficulty supressing my laughter whenever I saw him, as I was remembering bits from Mad Magazine.

 
JaxZ,

The Glen Morangie ten y-o is like having an angel swing by to wipe the furrows from your brow, the worries from your mind and heaviness from your heart.

The military tip, a gem, assumes one knows one R from ones L. It remains unclear.
 

Stoney and JaxZ~R or L; depends on weather you are screwing down,or screwing up

STONEY:  It is a Labor of Love ....... 9.5 times out of 10 ... I drink my Whiskey Straight, and very slowly ... but the first time I experienced the refreshing kiss of the Mint Juliff, and was told the History of the drink by a Beltway Shaherazade, who had just shown me to the very Desk where Henry Clay sat ... I was hooked, especially when I thought about enjoying them at the Races ... Horse Racing is the only event on which I have ever Gambled, and I have won as much as I have lost over the years, but it doesn't really matter ... When I first started going to the tracks, the Gentry still, "Dressed" to be correct ... and whether one was at Saratoga or Santa Anita, one never saw any of The Regulars in the same clothes, and Gentlemen paid attention to proper Grooming and Personal Hygiene without being, or being thought of as, a "Poof" ... Every Tout, every Tipster (and they really did remind me of, Evil-Eye Fliegel) that one would be assaulted by with whispers of a "Sure Thing" ... had the same phrase(speaking of punctuation) to let one know that it was a Safe Bet ... " Its a Boat Race, I'm tellin' ya, I gotta Double Sawbuck on this Horse myself !!! "  A Bet on the Nag, would practically guarantee the Horse would drop dead from fright when the Gate popped open .......
 
As for Shaherazade, that is a whole nuther story .......
 
 
Y'all have a Safe and Plerasant Weekend and Enjoy !!!
 
 
Good Shabbos to the Tribe .......
 
 
Ivan
 

The thing to bear in mind about Glen Morangie is to stop drinking it when you can't pronounce it

Stoney: It did just that, my friend.

RY: Hmmm, I'll check the weather report before messing up

Hazel: Very good advice. I'll write that down next to the bottle.

cuukoo1 - I've got a few bags a skipping rocks that have been formed over the ages just for this night on the train and as always, there's a bag with your name on it  Save me a seat by the window.

I'll bring some shooting stars, and we can all go "OOOH,  AHHH" together

Some shooting stars!
Wonderful!
Some can skip rocks in the water below, and we'll catch shooting stars in the skies above them.
 
You have some awfully good ideas, Captain.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 

O Stoney, we kids are evil aren't we. 
Does every neighborhood have a Whirlaway?
I think so.
We had a Fo Fo.
 
He had a speech impediment and had a hard time pronouncing his first name which began with FO.  As kids we made fun of him by imitating him...
 
I hope it didn't ruin his life. 
I hope he's happy and healthy and wealthy and wise and above all else, not reading this.
 
Yep, kids can be evil little brats.
 
 
 
 
 

Good punctuation is needed to get ones point across using the written word. We have a hard enough time understanding one another talking face to face. As for capital letters...all the papers I wrote in school were printed in capital letters as my cursive was not up to par. I wonder now lo these many years later if my teachers thought I was yelling at them?
 
As for the train...y'all save a redneck a seat wouldya'? I'll be gettin' my drink on later and would enjoy the comp'ny.

KC, there's a seat with your name on it in the Club Car.  You can BYO or tell the bartender what you'd like and how you'd like it.  One of the beautiful things about thesepia train is you will always have it exactly as you like it, whenever you like it.
 
Now, it doesn't get any better than that, does it?
 
See you there!

Well here goes in making myself the most unpopular person within Peterman's Eye, will most probably be excommunicated by J.P. himself. But what the heck:
 
Why does America insist it has the right to butcher a counties language? English was "invented" in England Not America, but America insists on calling a full stop a period, quite often an exclamation mark an exclamation point, then the spelling of so many words, either dropping a letter, changing an S to a Z etcetera.
 
Then we come to changing a well known sport as in football to something totally different and insisting on calling the original "soccer"!
 
I have even been asked here "Did you learn to speak American before you came here?" and also "So you are from England, what is your first language?"!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Okay I know I live in America and should be grateful, and yes I am ready to be placed in the stocks and given fifty lashes (exclamation mark).

PL-- I did not know that you had an operation until 2 nights ago--- I hope that you are healing & feeling much better. I know you were missed by everyone here, myself included.
 
PARK---I hope your physical therapist has a Roman nose, black hair, is Italian & has strong arms...............!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
CUUKOO--- I love waking up to your posts, you are my moonlight angel.......
 
STONEY & PARK- every neighborhood & classroom has a Whirlaway & a Fo Fo...... I too hope they found happiness, wealth, & someone to love them forever..........
 
IVAN-- you charm meister you!
 
 

"Look at her, a prisoner of the gutter,
Condemned by every syllable she ever uttered.
By law she should be taken out and hung,
For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue.
Eliza Aaoooww! Henry imitating her Aaoooww!
Heaven's! What a noise!
This is what the British population,
Calls an elementary education. Pickering Oh,
Counsel, I think you picked a poor example. Henry Did I?
Hear them down in Soho square,
Dropping 'h's' everywhere.
Speaking English anyway they like.
You sir, did you go to school?
Man Wadaya tike me for, a fool?
Henry No one taught him 'take' instead of 'tike!
Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
This verbal class distinction, by now,
Should be antique. If you spoke as she does, sir,
Instead of the way you do,
Why, you might be selling flowers, too!
Hear a Yorkshireman, or worse,
Hear a Cornishman converse,
I'd rather hear a choir singing flat.
Chickens cackling in a barn Just like this one!
Eliza Garn! Henry I ask you, sir, what sort of word is that?
It's 'Aoooow' and 'Garn' that keep her in her place.
Not her wretched clothes and dirty face.
Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
This verbal class distinction by now should be antique.
If you spoke as she does, sir, Instead of the way you do,
Why, you might be selling flowers, too.
An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him,
The moment he talks he makes some other
Englishman despise him.
One common language I'm afraid we'll never get.
Oh, why can't the English learn to set
A good example to people whose
English is painful to your ears?
The Scotch and the Irish leave you close to tears.
There even are places where English completely
disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years!
Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
Norwegians learn Norwegian; the Greeks have taught their
Greek. In France every Frenchman knows
his language fro 'A' to 'Zed'
The French never care what they do, actually,
as long as they pronounce in properly.
Arabians learn Arabian with the speed of summer lightning.
And Hebrews learn it backwards,
which is absolutely frightening.
But use proper English you're regarded as a freak.
Why can't the English,
Why can't the English learn to speak?"
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAYUuspQ6BY
 
I know.
This has been done. 
Yet, 
It's just so perfectly applicable, wherever and whenever your complaint is heard, Triston.
Higgens didn't think the English could speak English.  As for we Americans, he says:
"Well in America they haven't used it for years."
 
I guess it's just evolution, and evolution isn't always pretty.  For example:
There's this word, "disrespect," when used as a verb, is like nails on a blackboard to me.
If I had an Eliza, I wouldn't even teach her that word, it wouldn't be in her vocabulary as a verb...and there I go.  Off on my own tangent.
 
I guess we need a sense of humor to live in this world, even when speaking grammatically, or maybe especially then.
 
Along with a copy of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past on your desk--if only because the title is good and at some point most things we bemoan the loss of, belong in that category.
 
 


 

Triston: Don't worry, I speak American (badly), if you don't stand too close and have a sense of humor you won't be physically injured.

Expressing your opinion from a fresh perspective would, I hope, always be welcome whether agreed with or not. If not, I made an enormous freekin mistake swearing to defend with my life the freedom of all to do so. But I do not believe I did.

I only speak one other language, but I notice they've had the same evolutions within their spoken and written words, both from decade to decade and border to border (dialects). You have your own Engish dialects. So many here can answer that one much more intelligently.

I've no idea about the soccer thing, that's always bugged me too. Nose tweaking?

There will always be people who ask dumb questions. I do, often, though I'm improving in caliber. When I lived in Europe I received my fair share. I think people who ask those silly sorts of questions perhaps don't have the education or life experience to really know how it sounds, and they blurt them out because they're curious but haven't thought it through. My father (a teacher, God bless him) almost permanenetly stopped me from ever asking questions at all by pounding me with "You display your ignorance every time you open your mouth". Well, yes. But as Monty Python says "I'm getting better."

No lashes. Might have some fun with the stocks though. We use water balloons with those in America.

What timing! Resale thrift store ad in today's newspaper reads, "THE place for previously-loved children and maternity essentials."

bebe - thank you for your good wishes, I'm feelin' stronger every day.  My physical therapist doesn't have a long Roman nose, back hair, Italian, and strong arms.  She's a healer from India full of gentle strength and a great smile

PARK4: La réponse parfaite.

JaxZ: Danke für Ihre Freundlichkeit.

Y'all have a great day, ya hear.

Mmmmmmmmmmmm.........madelines..............mmmmmmmmmmmmm................

Peter: I'm happy your strength is returning (a good place for an exclamation point)! There should be a Physical Therapy car on the train so all can chat while working out and then get luxuriously pummel'd by masseuses after. I have two PTs. One petite, amazing woman with incredible diagnostic ability and healing hands, and one 6'2" (intimidatingly handsome, but very sweet) young man who got me out of my wheelchair with his enthusiasm, encouragement and persistant care. So grateful for them!

Triston: Sie mussen "Du" zu mir sagen! Wir haben schones Gemutlichkeit.

Triston, wasn't it your Queen that said "A King is always a King,but once good Knight is enough"

JaxZ: Ich bin traurig, aber Ihre deutsche Rechtschreibung ist vermutlich entweder sehr rostig oder amricanised.

Jedoch sich zu unterhalten ist nett, mit jemand auf Deutsch, selbst wenn ich nicht einen Anhaltspunkt habe, was Sie mit Ihrem Amerikanischen Akzent sagen!

Ach, Triston! Meine Entschuldigungen, erlernte ich mein Deutsches von den Freunden und von den Nachbarn. Da ich nie korrekte englische Grammatik erlernte, war es hart, korrekte deutsche Grammatik und Syntax zu fassen. Traurig zu enttäuschen!

Hey every body! I think there is fresh Schnitzel,and Beir...boy oh boy!

 RY:I doubt it was the current Queen, possibly Lizzie 1 she was by all accounts quite a "gal", but alas I am not a Royalist. Vive la president.

Oh- goddammit! It took a solid year to purge the place of pidgin French und jetzt mit dem Deutsch. It just won't do- stop it.

Sad about the once-loved tots.

Whirls, after years of therapy, sucking his thumb and sobbing in a darkened room, emerged to a career as a cardio prof at the medical college who would linger outside the door until heralded in with his signature call. A beauty guy.

RY: Sorry I'm done. :)

Whoops. Sorry, I'm done. :)

Did someone just mention hot, just out of the oven and turned upside in a cloth lined basket! madelines?  The new sepiatrain bakery car is on order and will be delivered earlier this afternoon.  I love this train.

Stoney: Pidgin French!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Guess I deserved that after my earlier posting geezz............. um just kidding

Stoney: No worries. I'll stick to keepin you amused and horrified with my pidgin English and barbaric punctuation.

Yeah, I may have to adopt a few of those tots. All my street waifs have grown and flown.

Hot Cross Buns? Butter churned by the swaying motion of thesepia train, and cheeses,and pears....I think I need to go downstairs and find a nosh

A pint of Somerset Scrumpy Cider and a Cheddar Cheese and Horseradish sarnie please.

RY: Very good idea. I, Madame Bovary and a sandwich am/are headed for bed. Goodnight, may you all have a delightful train ride!!!!!

I love you!

Eamus Catuli! (which by the way gets a foreign language pass... it is Cubbish)

8-1

I love YOU!

I am!

Hark!

I'm confused......