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2007-09-22 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Hyphen falls victim to the email society
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Posted by Fred 2007-09-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ]  Top

#1 The reason...is that we no longer have time to reach over to the hyphen key.

That gets my vote for for stupid-of-the-day. I thought hyphens were dying 'cause Strunk & White said not to use 'em.
Posted by SteveS 2007-09-22 00:16||   2007-09-22 00:16|| Front Page Top

#2 It's just a tradeoff, for every "-" I leave out I have to type an "@"
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-09-22 00:39||   2007-09-22 00:39|| Front Page Top

#3 I protest!
Posted by Nigel Nigel Hyphen Hyphen Stroke Money">Nigel Nigel Hyphen Hyphen Stroke Money  2007-09-22 01:26||   2007-09-22 01:26|| Front Page Top

#4 <:-)

Hyphens make good noses.


I've rented a large storage-container to hold them until the world comes to its senses. It's in Dahomey, if you want to drop by and visit them.

Fred, You'll either make a fortune when come back , or a killing!
Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg  2007-09-22 01:42||   2007-09-22 01:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Noones gonna like thisn
Posted by Thomas Woof 2007-09-22 03:27||   2007-09-22 03:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Fred, I have a modest stash of my own - for emergency use of course - so if you want a backup site let me know. I could fit a small container on the back 40 here.
Posted by lotp 2007-09-22 06:44||   2007-09-22 06:44|| Front Page Top

#7 PS: does the place in Dahomey let them out for regular exercise? They end up looking like ) if they don't get to run on in a sentence once in a while ....
Posted by lotp 2007-09-22 06:45||   2007-09-22 06:45|| Front Page Top

#8 trouble is, as we guys age, our hyphens can't stay up, and become underscores.... bummer
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2007-09-22 09:41||   2007-09-22 09:41|| Front Page Top

#9 Never gonna miss snooty hyphenated names ever...
Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek  2007-09-22 11:51||   2007-09-22 11:51|| Front Page Top

#10 Never gonna miss snooty hyphenated names ever...

Yeah, like Rodham-Clinton.
Posted by mcsegeek1 2007-09-22 11:55||   2007-09-22 11:55|| Front Page Top

#11 Today the hyphen, tomorrow the tilde.

We don't need no stinkin tilde.
Posted by wxjames 2007-09-22 12:25||   2007-09-22 12:25|| Front Page Top

#12 No worries -- I'll keep the hyphens well-exercised until the rest of the world comes to their senses. ;-)
Posted by trailing wife 2007-09-22 12:56||   2007-09-22 12:56|| Front Page Top

#13 We don't need no stinkin tilde.

Hey wxjames, lay of the tilde! How else am I gonna console into my games so I can enter my cheat codes???
Posted by mcsegeek1 2007-09-22 14:40||   2007-09-22 14:40|| Front Page Top

#14 Not to be confused with the dash. The hyphen connects, IIRC, whilst the dash separate.

TW applied two hypehns to approximate a dash.
Posted by Bobby 2007-09-22 14:40||   2007-09-22 14:40|| Front Page Top

#15 Just trying to conserve a limited natural resource, Bobby. ;-)
Posted by trailing wife 2007-09-22 18:42||   2007-09-22 18:42|| Front Page Top

#16 I kind of prefer underlined spaces to hyphens because they parse as single tokens on unix command lines.
Posted by 3dc 2007-09-22 19:56||   2007-09-22 19:56|| Front Page Top

#17 First they came for the hyphens
and I did not speak out
because I do not like my steaks well done.
Then they came for the exclamation points
and I did not speak out
because only in my heart did I shout, “Damn them all.”
Then they came for the asterisks
and I did not speak out
because I use HTML
Then they came for the @ sign
And the Internet was destroyed …
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-09-22 20:57||   2007-09-22 20:57|| Front Page Top

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