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Peace through
superior firepower
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For example:

Let's eat, Grandma!

versus

Lets eat Grandma

And here's a real-world example:

https://x.com/RealOxfordComma/.../1951285076479619514

 
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Do---or do not.
There is no try.
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Photoshopped 2011 fake cover, but still funny…

https://www.eater.com/2011/3/2...azine-cover-was-fake
 
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Fake or not, Soylent Green is mighty tasty.


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Step by step walk the thousand mile road
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Nuts, Screws, and Bolts = hardware order

Nut Screws and Bolts = headline when maniac raped a nurse before escaping the asylum





Nice is overrated

"It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government."
Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018
 
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Bookers Bourbon
and a good cigar
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Today I learned that an APOSTROPHE is also called a FLYING COMMA. It may be wrong, but I'm using it from now on.





Any dog can be a Guide Dog if you don't care where you're going.


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Void Where Prohibited
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Absolutely.

A missed period can cause panic



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Bookers Bourbon
and a good cigar
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I find inspiration in cooking my family and my dog.





Any dog can be a Guide Dog if you don't care where you're going.


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Political Cynic
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Flying comma - hadn't heard that one before
 
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Help your Uncle Jack, off his horse.

vs

Help your Uncle jack off his horse.
 
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Told cops where to go for over 29 years…
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Originally posted by iron chef:
…Help your Uncle jack off his horse.


I seen something like that in Tijuana back in the ‘80s once…






What part of "...Shall not be infringed" don't you understand???


 
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Originally posted by 911Boss:
I seen something like that in Tijuana back in the ‘80s once…

The jacking or the helping?


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I'm giving up drinking until this is over.
Sorry, I'm giving up. Drinking until this is over.
 
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Watching for
Falling Rocks
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I would say it's equally as important as grammar

 
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Maybe this belongs over in the “do you proofread your posts” thread. Roll Eyes



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Several years ago, my wife picked up this little book-Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (there’s a picture depicting a panda on the cover). Fun perspective to the subject. Looking on Amazon, there appears to be a couple of follow on books as well.


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A comma can cost BILLIONS



I like Steve Lehto, Lehto's Law on YouTube.
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A comma can cost BILLIONS



I like Steve Lehto, Lehto's Law on YouTube.
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I watch Mr. Lehto every day!! And he's a car guy!
 
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His diet consists of black
coffee, and sarcasm.
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"My doctor told me not to eat anything fatty"
vs.
"My doctor told me not to eat anything, fatty"





"The Almighty, He put some livin' things on this earth so a man can eat." - Festus Haggen, Gunsmoke
 
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On the wrong side of
the Mobius strip
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Spelling is equally important.
I can still smell your colon on my pillow.


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