Monday, March 05, 2007

Punctuation

I'm discovering that as I age new things bother me like they have never bothered me before, and one of them is punctuation! I only read editorial pages when I read a newspaper, and I answer emails from sometimes frustrated people all day! I have after careful thought come to my decision on what the best course of action is, and that is to ban use of the exclamation point! Every indignant person who rights a letter to the editor of the paper uses this piece of punctuation in an excessive and absurd matter! Have you noticed how I have ended every singe sentence with an exclamation point? Yeah, that's what I mean. But some emails that I receive have ended with this punctual combination!!!?!! I think whoever does that should be shot for the benefit of our greater good. Or at least beaten about ones head with a giant wooden exclamation point. All the time screaming, "see what it feels like? That's what it's like to read your writing!"

1 comment:

Joe MacKenzie said...

YOU KNOW ANOTHER ONE THAT GETS ME!!?!?!??!!! TAKE A WILD GUESS!!!! WHAT I HAVE TO SAY IS REALLY, REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT!!!!!!!