You are the epidemy of "Can dish it out, but can't take it." Good ridance.

I can't help myself... it's "epitome", not "epidemy". Also add a "d" to "ridance". Nothing personal Warren, I'm just an involuntary proofreader, almost to the point of OCD.

I can't help myself... it's "epitome", not "epidemy". Also add a "d" to "ridance". Nothing personal Warren, I'm just an involuntary proofreader, almost to the point of OCD.

Well, since we're proofreading here: punctuation marks like periods and commas go before the quotation marks, so your sentences should have read

Also add a "d" to "ridance."

and

I can't help myself...it's "epitome," not "epidemy."

Note also that there's no space after an ellipsis, as I corrected above. Finally, be sure to double space after a period.

(Nothing personal, just can't help myself.)

Well, since we're proofreading here: punctuation marks like periods and commas go before the quotation marks, so your sentences should have read

Also add a "d" to "ridance."

and

I can't help myself...it's "epitome," not "epidemy."

Note also that there's no space after an ellipsis, as I corrected above. Finally, be sure to double space after a period.

(Nothing personal, just can't help myself.)

According to "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" by Lynne Truss (the confessions of the ultimate persnickety proofreader), usage of commas and full stops (periods) inside and outside quotation marks has become pretty much acceptable either way on either side of the Atlantic in the last 25 years. Unless, of course, the quotation marks actually enclose a quotation, and not emphasizing a word, in which case you would be correct. Spelling isn't flexible.

Rick

fred, has it ever occurred to you that you're being attacked on this forum because you're insulting the people of this city and state, you're telling us that our home is basically a piece of ****, and that you're more than happy to get your education here, but can't wait to leave after that because of how rotten this place is? it's difficult for me to understand how someone with a college education can't pick up on that! i guess you can't see the forest for the trees.

Double space after a period? Obviously trained during the typewriter era when mono-spaced fonts (every character occupied the same amount of "space" on the page, no matter if it was a "W" or an "i") were the rule. Those double spaces were needed. With the proliferation of proportional fonts, the need is no longer there. In fact, if you try to put them in, many programs will strip them out to just one. Notice in the "double space" post, there is only one space after the periods. Many of the things we learned back on the typewriter just don't apply anymore. They were needed because of the limitations imposed by the "technology" and we couldn't do them the "correct" way. There are still those that insist on putting things in ALL CAPS for emphasis when bold is the accepted form.

"Spelling isn't flexible" LOL. I liked a quote attributed to Thomas Jefferson who said he didn't trust anyone who could only spell a word one way.

:-)

More proof that "sports blogger" is code for "frat boy from long island".

Also, I have some empathy for Fred. I WAS that guy, circa 2000. I thought OKC was the sort of place that you leave as soon as possible, a hopelessly regressive, narrow minded, stifling suburban hell. I packed up my stuff and headed east as soon as possible. Sometimes you have to get away to get some perspective...as one of my art school friends who decided to move here after coming to my wedding (yeah, OKC is now getting migrants from other states, including some young creative ones) "In Massachusetts, no one holds the door for anyone else, because they don't care if it slams in your face. In Richmond, they hold the door for you, not because they care if it slams in your face, but because it's customary and it would look bad if they didn't. Here people hold the door for you because they actually want to make sure it doesn't hit you in the face on the way in."

Honestly, I'll take that over Coyote Ugly any day. Theme restaurants are moronic, theme restaurants based on crappy movies from a decade ago doubly so. Go to Big Truck Tacos and get a pork verde burrito instead.

NO!! Stop talking about him!!! You might make him come back!

Double space after a period? Obviously trained during the typewriter era when mono-spaced fonts (every character occupied the same amount of "space" on the page, no matter if it was a "W" or an "i") were the rule. Those double spaces were needed. With the proliferation of proportional fonts, the need is no longer there. In fact, if you try to put them in, many programs will strip them out to just one. Notice in the "double space" post, there is only one space after the periods. Many of the things we learned back on the typewriter just don't apply anymore. They were needed because of the limitations imposed by the "technology" and we couldn't do them the "correct" way. There are still those that insist on putting things in ALL CAPS for emphasis when bold is the accepted form.

"Spelling isn't flexible" LOL. I liked a quote attributed to Thomas Jefferson who said he didn't trust anyone who could only spell a word one way.

:-)

Most browsers (I'd say all, but am not 100% certain) display multiple spaces in a row as a single space. It might even be part of the HTML standard, with the exception of special characters like a nonbreakable space (  in HTML source, unless its escaped out like vBulletin will do when I submit this post).

If you look at the source behind semisimple's "double space" post, he did use two spaces after a paragraph. We just don't get to see them.

Double space after a period? Obviously trained during the typewriter era when mono-spaced fonts (every character occupied the same amount of "space" on the page, no matter if it was a "W" or an "i") were the rule. Those double spaces were needed. With the proliferation of proportional fonts, the need is no longer there. In fact, if you try to put them in, many programs will strip them out to just one. Notice in the "double space" post, there is only one space after the periods. Many of the things we learned back on the typewriter just don't apply anymore. They were needed because of the limitations imposed by the "technology" and we couldn't do them the "correct" way. There are still those that insist on putting things in ALL CAPS for emphasis when bold is the accepted form.

"Spelling isn't flexible" LOL. I liked a quote attributed to Thomas Jefferson who said he didn't trust anyone who could only spell a word one way.

:-)
LOL, I still double space after periods even though I know they get stripped out. Old habits die hard.

HAHHA, i'm 22... this isn't keeping me in OKC, what's keeping me in OKC is family. I've been to the east coast, i love it there. but then again, i can see that great city's don't have to be built next to the ocean, ie vegas, etc. Water features are great (i'd like to see a wider river). Maps3 i thought was a joke... i wasn't too excited about all the "features". Do I think CorNutt F**ed this one up.. probably, but who's to say, it's like saying the prez of the US f**ks things up when he has an entire cabinet and staff that helps him. But it's going to be awhile til Maps4 and my priority's and wants will have changed.... i do wish we had better attractions, and if i had good credit, i might start one of those great things, but i don't have great credit and i can't start one of those things... catch 22 if you will. blah blah blah, help me from being bored okc... i've already tried not being bored. I've done the club'n, the hookah bars, geocaching, fishing, camping, movies, house parties, dinners at fancy restaurants, nba games, baseball games, canal rides, horse rides, photog, you name it in this town and i have done it... both something put on and something i've done to entertain myself.. what am I missing? I mainly like just sitting back and taking it all in, but it seems there are just pockets of OKC that are great. We need to fill in between those pockets and make it a complete picture of a great city... anything else is a waste of time.

> the hookah bars

They have their own bars now? Seems almost counter-producti .... oh wait, never mind. 8^)

On a somewhat more serious note, I gotta ask. Even before I eradicated tobacco from my list of enjoyments a few years back, I never really understood the appeal of a cigar bar or a hookah bar. It's not like I dinna smoke indoors back when it was regularly permitted, but I never stepped foot in a specialty smoker's bar.

Mildly curious what I was missing, cause it just did not draw me in.

In Massachusetts, no one holds the door for anyone else, because they don't care if it slams in your face. In Richmond, they hold the door for you, not because they care if it slams in your face, but because it's customary and it would look bad if they didn't. Here people hold the door for you because they actually want to make sure it doesn't hit you in the face on the way in."
Ain't it the truth?
To FFBurger I say DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU IN THE A$$ ON THE WAY OUT
Did you catch that Larry? all capitals and bold

In Massachusetts, no one holds the door for anyone else, because they don't care if it slams in your face. In Richmond, they hold the door for you, not because they care if it slams in your face, but because it's customary and it would look bad if they didn't. Here people hold the door for you because they actually want to make sure it doesn't hit you in the face on the way in."
Ain't it the truth?
To FFBurger I say DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU IN THE A$$ ON THE WAY OUT
Did you catch that Larry? all capitals and bold

LOL (should have put it in RED just to make sure)