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Word of the Every So Often
gunsel: (noun) a criminal carrying a gun; a catamite. Remember: It’s not the guns that hurt people; it’s the gunsels.
The Almost Daily
It’s World Semicolon Day, celebrating the world’s most misused punctuation mark. OK, folks, here’s the rule: A semi-colon is the exact same thing as a period. If you can’t replace ia semi-colon with a period, then you can’t use it. And, really, why aren’t you using a period? Pretty simple. The only other time it is permissable to use a semi-colon is to separate a string of complex apositives. For instance: I went to the store and got lemons, organges, and limes; carrots, parsnips, and potatoes; and chicken, beef, and lamb. Even still, that’s not a great sentence. My advice to anybody about semi-colons: Don’t use them. Or, as Vonnegut once quipped (more or less): The only thing a semi-colon tells your reader is that you’ve been to college.
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Cartoon of the Week
The Usual Suspects.
Stuff
Practical Predictions
Madame Sosostris,
Madame Sosostris,
tell me something new.
I know that I
someday must die,
and there’s nothing I can do.
I could care less
about life’s trials and tests,
my neighbors and their fates.
And I don’t care to know
who will come to blows
when they’re dividing up my estate.
Madame Sosostris,
Madame Sosostris,
tell me what I haven’t heard,
like who will place
in today’s race
at Oak Lawn in the third.
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