- How many spaces come after a period (it’s ONE).
- The serial comma and why we should love it.
- How brownies are better than pie.
- Why and how much your favorite band sucks and is inferior to The Replacements.
- There is no five.
- The Chicago Manual of Style and why it’s the only style guide that matters (suck it AP).
- Alice Munro: the big, ol’ bore.
- Why and how your taste in literature is far inferior to mine.
- Peanut M&Ms and why they’re the best of all the M&Ms.
- Burnt Sienna, the only crayon that matters.
- The proper way to fix a gin & tonic.
- Why Let it Be is the best Replacements’ record and how you are wrong by saying it is Tim.
- The Clash: Overated? Yes.
- Superman rules and every other hero drools, get over it.
- How to lead a happy, fruitful, and fulfilling life without ever having seen any of the Star Wars, The Godfather, Indiana Jones, Matrix, Star Trek, or Lord of the Rings movies.
- How awesome I am.
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I was always told to put two spaces after a period, but I usually can’t bring myself to do it. Just for you, I’ll try to make a more conscious effort in the future.
I would love to hear your thoughts on the proper way to make a gin and tonic, though. Here’s mine: Open a bottle of gin. Pour about four to six ounces into a 32-ounce plastic cup. Add tonic until it’s about three inches from the top of the cup. Stir. Fill remainder of cup with ice. Drink some, then add more ice.
I never get enough ice in, though, even with the final step there. It always melts before I hit the bottom of the drink.
UH you probably learned to type on a typewriter. But now that nobody uses typewriters (and the monospaced fonts), you can ditch the extra space.
There are three problems with your gin & tonic methods:
1. You’re using a plastic cup (I abhor plastic cups)
2. Your cup is too big thus making it impossible to finish the drink before the ice melts
3. No lime (what’s wrong with you?)
I use a 16 ounce glass, fill with ice, pour in gin to about there, fill rest with tonic, squeeze lime wedge and drop remainder into the glass. Enjoy.
We were actually drinking gin & tonics from coffee mugs the other night… I agree that limes are essential.
I hope they were big coffee mugs.
I agree with you on everything. Even that you are better than me in areas. Because it’s true.
I guess I don’t know how thought #4 and thought #13 can exist in the same head.
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
Is there any argument at all about the use of “their/there/they’re”? 😉
I don’t know what you’re talking about, crazy person (heh, they’re/their/there, and your/you’re is my weakness. When I write without really thinking, i always fuck it up).