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My new $10 fifty ft garden hose from Family Dollar came with a warning

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May 25, 2012, 3:53:18 PM5/25/12
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Inside the package cover it says: WARNING! Do not drink water out of
this hose. The hose could harbor hazardous chemicals, or bacteria
from stagnant water inside the hose.


Is there nothing we can do today, that we used to do as kids growing
up?

Damn Obama. He's ruining everything!

OllieN...@aol.com

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May 25, 2012, 6:27:41 PM5/25/12
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These warnings go back before O. what is ironic is it is ok to suck a
dick after a fag has pulled it out of an asshole. I guess thats safe.

Tommy Joe

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May 25, 2012, 6:57:11 PM5/25/12
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On May 25, 6:27 pm, OllieNort...@aol.com wrote:



> These warnings go back before O.  what is ironic is it is ok to suck a
> dick after a fag has pulled it out of an asshole.  I guess thats safe.



I wonder if there's any novelty money to be made selling a new
drink called Big Dick in a container that looks just like a big dick
and is actually flexible so as you're drinking from the tip of the
head it bends in and flops around if you want it to. Or we could also
sell milk out of containers that look like tits, sucking the milk
right out of the nipples. But I think the big dick bottle would go
over even with the hetero crowd - you know, "just to see what it's
like".

TJ

somebody

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May 25, 2012, 8:30:43 PM5/25/12
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The garden hose post was surprisingly popular in that other place...
what is Sheldon?

Tommy Joe

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May 25, 2012, 9:40:04 PM5/25/12
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On May 25, 8:30 pm, somebody <tom.ungvar...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The garden hose post was surprisingly popular in that other place...
> what is Sheldon?


I don't know for sure, but I think Sheldon is the name of the guy
who calls himself brooklyn1. I'll check out that thread later. It's
popular there because those people are into cooking and gardening and
owning homes and so forth, so when they saw garden hose they thought
it might be something up their alley. I'm guessing. In here a garden
hose is just another person's fantasy of a big dick around the house
24/7. You sure do spend a lot of money buying things. You need some
poverty in your life, maybe it will teach you some humility.

TJ

somebody

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May 26, 2012, 8:35:04 PM5/26/12
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I buy cheap things. I don't really have anything very expensive. My
"car" is worth less than $1,000 US dollars. I do have a house, but
not much equity.

Tommy Joe

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May 27, 2012, 10:18:02 PM5/27/12
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On May 26, 8:35 pm, somebody <tom.ungvar...@gmail.com> wrote:



> I buy cheap things.  I don't really have anything very expensive.  My
> "car" is worth less than $1,000 US dollars.  I do have a house, but
> not much equity.



Ok, so you're not guilty of being rich - but surely you're guilty
of something and by God I'm going to find out what it is.

TJ

somebody

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May 28, 2012, 12:10:51 AM5/28/12
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yeah, everyone is. Which makes managers assholes for ever criticizing
people that work for them.

somebody

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May 28, 2012, 12:12:23 AM5/28/12
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Trajectory is that I will run out of money before retirement. Hope to
rectify that! But so far, still on that trajectory. It's just a
little flatter with the delivery job and may take a bit longer.

OllieN...@aol.com

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May 28, 2012, 10:52:59 AM5/28/12
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Look in a sex store. I think they have plastic dicks you can fill
with liquids. Sex stores are on the cutting edge.

Tommy Joe

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May 29, 2012, 3:39:34 AM5/29/12
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On May 28, 12:12 am, somebody <tom.ungvar...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Trajectory is that I will run out of money before retirement.  Hope to
> rectify that!  But so far, still on that trajectory.  It's just a
> little flatter with the delivery job and may take a bit longer.


May I ask how old you are? I'm in the same boat as you. I never
had money until a no-longer relative helped me out with a bit of
cash. I'm working two days a week to stretch it out so I can make it
to Sept when I turn 65 and qualify for SSI payments of $675 a month.
Without that windfall, the job I have now would not pay my bills even
if I worked 6 days a week. And I'm too tired to try to make
improvements. I'm just waiting. Waiting to retire and waiting to
die.

TJ

Tommy Joe

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May 29, 2012, 3:43:07 AM5/29/12
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On May 28, 10:52 am, OllieNort...@aol.com wrote:



> Look in a sex store.  I think they have plastic dicks you can fill
> with liquids.  Sex stores are on the cutting edge.



But they're not real looking enough. I want a real looking dick
to play with, one that goes soft and then gets hard on remote control
command. You might even have it float across the room to you at mouth
level or slightly above - zooming in slowly to cruise above your head,
occasionally brushing it as you bend your head upward, mouth opened,
trying to get that dick in war-head first. Finally it is lowered to
just the right level and you able to suck it as it throbs and balloons
within your mouth. But it has to look real or I don't want it. And
it has to feel real too. But I don't want a real one because like I
told you a hundred fucking times buddy, I'm not gay.

TJ

somebody

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May 29, 2012, 11:44:29 AM5/29/12
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they do circumcisions?

somebody

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May 29, 2012, 11:45:45 AM5/29/12
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49... going on 86

God I hope I don't live past 76

Tommy Joe

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May 29, 2012, 11:31:00 PM5/29/12
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On May 29, 11:45 am, somebody <tom.ungvar...@gmail.com> wrote:



> 49... going on 86
>
> God I hope I don't live past 76



Ok, finally got the answer to my question. 49 is not too far
removed from 64. Why 76? What is it about that number that scares
you? Do you have something against trombones?

TJ

OllieN...@aol.com

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May 30, 2012, 8:58:02 AM5/30/12
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LOL at 76 trombones!!!!!!!

Tommy Joe

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May 31, 2012, 3:06:49 AM5/31/12
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On May 30, 8:58 am, OllieNort...@aol.com wrote:

> LOL at 76 trombones!!!!!!!



Well really, if someone shot a bunch of different numbers at you
and asked you to say the first thing that came to mind I'm pretty sure
76 would be a common one for "76". Some would be easier than others.
88 would be "number of keys on a piano". 1 would be "the loneliest
number". 2 would be "you and me". Some numbers would get consensus
responses. Others numbers may be more specific and known only to a
few, such as for example the number 24. Aside from "two dozen", which
is what most people would probably say, those in the know would say,
"the number of people James Huberty killed at the McDonald's
restaurant that fateful day in San Ysidro California so many years
ago.

TJ

OllieN...@aol.com

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May 31, 2012, 8:42:57 AM5/31/12
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24 = hours in a day.

Numbers are interesting. I am a bit interested in numerology.

If you said 9 I would say inches my dick is. And I would be lying. It
is probably dead on at the average size for a white guy.

somebody

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May 31, 2012, 9:20:06 AM5/31/12
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at the moment I have nothing against trombones. But if I told you had
a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?

Seriously, 76 trombones. Yes that would frighten the beejeebus out of
me. And maids don't like cleaning that up.

Tommy Joe

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Jun 1, 2012, 12:36:28 AM6/1/12
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On May 31, 8:42 am, OllieNort...@aol.com wrote:

> 24 = hours in a day.
>
> Numbers are interesting.  I am a bit interested in numerology.
>
> If you said 9 I would say inches my dick is. And I would be lying.  It
> is probably dead on at the average size for a white guy.


I knew I was overlooking something. I thought of 11 and had an
immediate answer. Then 12. Then 13. I had to go all the way to 24
before i got tired of searching for an obscure number and gave up
right there without even considering the two dozen aspect. Dick
measuring is an inexact science just like measuring the body. At
present we measure people from the soles of their feet to the tops of
their heads. I think it should be the shoulders, not the head. Same
with the dick, the measurement should end with the upper shaft, not
with the dick head. For example, if a guy is only 1 foot tall but has
a 5 foot head, does that make him 6 feet tall? Not in my view it
doesn't. Same with a dick. I know a guy who has a 1 inch dick with a
6 inch head on it, yet he goes around saying he's got a 7 inch dick.
That's not fair. We've got to realign our measuring methods.

TJ

Tommy Joe

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Jun 1, 2012, 12:38:50 AM6/1/12
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On May 31, 9:20 am, somebody <tom.ungvar...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Seriously, 76 trombones. Yes that would frighten the beejeebus out of
> me. And maids don't like cleaning that up.


To fart and have the sound of 76 trombones come out would be
sheer heaven.

TJ

somebody

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Jun 2, 2012, 8:50:21 AM6/2/12
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On Jun 1, 12:38 am, Tommy Joe <trues...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On May 31, 9:20 am, somebody <tom.ungvar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Seriously, 76trombones.  Yes that would frighten the beejeebus out of
> > me.  And maids don't like cleaning that up.
>
>      To fart and have the sound of 76trombonescome out would be
> sheer heaven.
>
> TJ

To clarify, these aren't rusty trombones are they? I don't think I
could take 76 of those.

Tommy Joe

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On Jun 2, 8:50 am, somebody <tom.ungvar...@gmail.com> wrote:

> To clarify, these aren't rusty trombones are they?  I don't think I
> could take 76 of those.



Tell me what you think for real? Is there a man alive who would
not want the title of man with the world's loudest fart ever? Or the
smelliest? Or both. Being best at anything pays off. Being the
world's best farter is a perfect gig where you only have to perform
once or twice a year. When the press asks why you work so little,
your answer educates them as they learn from your words that to be the
world's best farter it takes months of preparation. Everywhere you go
they ask if you'll be putting on a performance tonight. "Nope", you
say, "I'm building up to it though." Years later on being interviewed
you boast, "Before I performed at the Rose Bowl in 2013 the attendance
record was held by the Rolling Stones. Not for long. I packed that
joint tight. They put a dome over the bowl to give everyone a comfy
environment as I cut loose 6 months of pent up fury in front of the
raging crowd.

And they gave me a standing O

TJ

OllieN...@aol.com

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Jun 4, 2012, 4:36:53 PM6/4/12
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The greatest farter of all time was Jimi Fardrix. He farted colors.
He died at age 27. All great artist die at 27. How old are you? If
you are over 27 you can't be the greatest./

somebody

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Jun 4, 2012, 11:02:21 PM6/4/12
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kneeling O is better.

somebody

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He had so much lsd in his system near the end that his farts would
send people tripping.

Tommy Joe

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On Jun 4, 11:05 pm, somebody <tom.ungvar...@gmail.com> wrote:

> He had so much lsd in his system near the end that his farts would
> send people tripping.



LOL. Speaking of Hendrix, I did not care much for the guy and
thought his scale-playing gimmickry was designed for tripped-out
college kids to swoon over. Hendrix is another one who people rave
about, but if you left them alone in an apartment with a CD collection
they'd probably never put it. That happened with me once in LA when a
guy I knew from the poolroom came over to spend the night and saw my
record collection and asked, "Got any Coltrane?" I pulled out my one
and only Coltrane album, which i did not like but had not yet returned
to the used record store, and put it on. "Alright", the guy said.
Then I realized I was out of smokes so I told the guy I was going
across the street for some and for some beer as well. I left and
closed the door. Then I stood there for a minute and sure enough, the
Coltrane record went off. In it's place the guy put on nothing. But
I always suspected that people who claim to like some things don't
really like them as much as they claim - and you can add to the list
of John Coltrane and Jimi Hendrix a long group of Shakespearean plays
that I just can't believe people can sit through without putting on an
act.

TJ

OllieN...@aol.com

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Jun 5, 2012, 8:17:40 AM6/5/12
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I like Hendrix. But I agree with what you are saying. A lot of music
I couldn't stand. And seemed like people would say such and such is so
great just because somehow it made them look like they were experts on
music or some such shit.

And heaven forbid you should be into polka music. And then today
there is rap which calling it music is ludicrous - in fact there is a
rapper named Ludicris.

At my funeral I want them to play "Splish Splash I was Taking a bath"
continously through the ceremony.

Tommy Joe

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On Jun 5, 8:17 am, OllieNort...@aol.com wrote:

> I like Hendrix.  But I agree with what you are saying.  A lot of music
> I couldn't stand. And seemed like people would say such and such is so
> great just because somehow it made them look like they were experts on
> music or some such shit.
>
> And heaven forbid you should be into polka music.  And then today
> there is rap which calling it music is ludicrous - in fact there is a
> rapper named Ludicris.
>
> At my funeral I want them to play "Splish Splash I was Taking a bath"
> continously through the ceremony.


I don't dislike all of Hendrix, I just know phony when I hear it,
and that Stars Spangled Banner version by Hendrix was pure bullshit.
What makes you think you're going to have a funeral anyway, especially
an open casket one? By the time we're done with you you're going to
look like one of Hendrix's guitars after it's been smashed to pieces
on stage by members of The Who and other tribute bands playing Jimi's
music and using his actual old guitars to do it.

TJ

OllieN...@aol.com

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Hendrix was the best! He preached love and peace and played a mean
git tar. If you don't agree I am going to smash YOU with his guitars
and I will make the WHO look like pussies doing it. Admit YOU ARE
WRONG GODDAMMIT!!!!!

Ollie
Semper "Peace and Love..." Fi

somebody

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On Jun 5, 8:17 am, OllieNort...@aol.com wrote:
I want them to play at mine: Zevon's "sentimental hygiene" and
Kink's "live life"

I like polka... Pennsylvania Polka is one of my favorites... Maybe I
shoulda put that in my will?
And some Nick Cave...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3Qnlu9Nfj8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWJGzTUD1tA


Tommy Joe

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On Jun 6, 8:23 am, OllieNort...@aol.com wrote:

> Hendrix was the best!  He preached love and peace and played a mean
> git tar.  If you don't agree I am going to smash YOU with his guitars
> and I will make the WHO look like pussies doing it.  Admit YOU ARE
> WRONG GODDAMMIT!!!!!


Google only gives me so many posts. I hope I don't use my last one
responding to your stupid missive. The only reason I wrote this was
an excuse to use the word "missive" for the first time in my life.
You should feel proud to be part of this awakening.

TJ.

somebody

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isn't strange you go for years with some word in your repertoire and
never get to use it. Then one day! Boom! Out it comes like fart you
can't hold in!
btw, I believe this is the first time I have ever used "repertoire".
What an odd spelling. Google corrected me on it.

Tommy Joe

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On Jun 7, 8:42 am, somebody <tom.ungvar...@gmail.com> wrote:

> isn't strange you go for years with some word in your repertoire and
> never get to use it.  Then one day!  Boom!  Out it comes like fart you
> can't hold in!
> btw, I believe this is the first time I have ever used "repertoire".
> What an odd spelling. Google corrected me on it.


I use Google but don't have the correction feature. It will come
up red if misspelled but it won't give me the right word or any
suggestions. I have a dictionary sitting here and dread pulling out
because it's a dust collector. I remember having to look up
"repetoire" a few times before geting it down, and I still have
trouble with some words even after I learn them and vow to never need
the dictionary for them again - but sure enough the next time I got to
spell it I have to hunt again. One such word is sillouhette. Just
now it came up red, so I know I misspelled it, but I don't care
because I don't think there's another word we use that looked remotely
like it, so it's a word that can stand a little misspelling now and
then. There are also words I know but never use because I just don't
like the sound of them rolling off my tongue. And if it doesn't roll
of my tongue there's a good chance I probably won't use it on paper
either.

TJ

somebody

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On Jun 8, 2:09 am, Tommy Joe <j...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> On Jun 7, 8:42 am, somebody <tom.ungvar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > isn't strange you go for years with some word in your repertoire and
> > never get to use it.  Then one day!  Boom!  Out it comes like fart you
> > can't hold in!
> > btw, I believe this is the first time I have ever used "repertoire".
> > What an odd spelling. Google corrected me on it.
>
>     I use Google but don't have the correction feature.  It will come
> up red if misspelled but it won't give me the right word or any
> suggestions.  I have a dictionary sitting here and dread pulling out
> because it's a dust collector.  I remember having to look up
> "repertoire" a few times before getting it down, and I still have
> trouble with some words even after I learn them and vow to never need
> the dictionary for them again - but sure enough the next time I got to
> spell it I have to hunt again.  One such word is silhouette.  Just
> now it came up red, so I know I misspelled it, but I don't care
> because I don't think there's another word we use that looked remotely
> like it, so it's a word that can stand a little misspelling now and
> then.  There are also words I know but never use because I just don't
> like the sound of them rolling off my tongue.  And if it doesn't roll
> of my tongue there's a good chance I probably won't use it on paper
> either.
>
> TJ

I corrected your misspellings. Personally, I have given up trying to
spell "niece" correctly. I know I spell it wrong, so spell it
different than what "feels right" but then I'm tricked and am actually
remembering it right and so reversing it back to wrong. I have the
same problem with recieve.

I also noticed you are spacing twice at the end of sentences. All the
style manuals in the last 30 or so years say that is wrong. Double-
spacing only existed because of typewriters and fixed size fonts.
Computer fonts are proportional (except courier and few others) and
two spaces are no longer needed and are actually faux paws.


Space Invaders
Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period.
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2011/01/space_invaders.html?fb_ref=sm_fb_plugin_activity

By Farhad Manjoo|Posted Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011, at 6:20 PM ET

Can I let you in on a secret? Typing two spaces after a period is
totally, completely, utterly, and inarguably wrong.

And yet people who use two spaces are everywhere, their ugly error
crossing every social boundary of class, education, and taste. *
You'd expect, for instance, that anyone savvy enough to read Slate
would know the proper rules of typing, but you'd be wrong; every third
e-mail I get from readers includes the two-space error. (In editing
letters for "Dear Farhad," my occasional tech-advice column, I've
removed enough extra spaces to fill my forthcoming volume of
melancholy epic poetry, The Emptiness Within.) The public relations
profession is similarly ignorant; I've received press releases and
correspondence from the biggest companies in the world that are
riddled with extra spaces. Some of my best friends are irredeemable
two spacers, too, and even my wife has been known to use an
unnecessary extra space every now and then (though she points out that
she does so only when writing to other two-spacers, just to make them
happy).

What galls me about two-spacers isn't just their numbers. It's their
certainty that they're right. Over Thanksgiving dinner last year, I
asked people what they considered to be the "correct" number of spaces
between sentences. The diners included doctors, computer programmers,
and other highly accomplished professionals. Everyone—everyone!—said
it was proper to use two spaces. Some people admitted to slipping
sometimes and using a single space—but when writing something formal,
they were always careful to use two. Others explained they mostly used
a single space but felt guilty for violating the two-space "rule."
Still others said they used two spaces all the time, and they were
thrilled to be so proper. When I pointed out that they were doing it
wrong—that, in fact, the correct way to end a sentence is with a
period followed by a single, proud, beautiful space—the table balked.
"Who says two spaces is wrong?" they wanted to know.

Typographers, that's who. The people who study and design the
typewritten word decided long ago that we should use one space, not
two, between sentences. That convention was not arrived at casually.
James Felici, author of the The Complete Manual of Typography, points
out that the early history of type is one of inconsistent spacing.
Hundreds of years ago some typesetters would end sentences with a
double space, others would use a single space, and a few renegades
would use three or four spaces. Inconsistency reigned in all facets of
written communication; there were few conventions regarding spelling,
punctuation, character design, and ways to add emphasis to type. But
as typesetting became more widespread, its practitioners began to
adopt best practices. Felici writes that typesetters in Europe began
to settle on a single space around the early 20th century. America
followed soon after.

Every modern typographer agrees on the one-space rule. It's one of the
canonical rules of the profession, in the same way that waiters know
that the salad fork goes to the left of the dinner fork and fashion
designers know to put men's shirt buttons on the right and women's on
the left. Every major style guide—including the Modern Language
Association Style Manual and the Chicago Manual of Style—prescribes a
single space after a period. (The Publications Manual of the American
Psychological Association, used widely in the social sciences, allows
for two spaces in draft manuscripts but recommends one space in
published work.) Most ordinary people would know the one-space rule,
too, if it weren't for a quirk of history. In the middle of the last
century, a now-outmoded technology—the manual typewriter—invaded the
American workplace. To accommodate that machine's shortcomings,
everyone began to type wrong. And even though we no longer use
typewriters, we all still type like we do. (Also see the persistence
of the dreaded Caps Lock key.)

The problem with typewriters was that they used monospaced type—that
is, every character occupied an equal amount of horizontal space. This
bucked a long tradition of proportional typesetting, in which skinny
characters (like I or 1) were given less space than fat ones (like W
or M). Monospaced type gives you text that looks "loose" and uneven;
there's a lot of white space between characters and words, so it's
more difficult to spot the spaces between sentences immediately. Hence
the adoption of the two-space rule—on a typewriter, an extra space
after a sentence makes text easier to read. Here's the thing, though:
Monospaced fonts went out in the 1970s. First electric typewriters and
then computers began to offer people ways to create text using
proportional fonts. Today nearly every font on your PC is
proportional. (Courier is the one major exception.) Because we've all
switched to modern fonts, adding two spaces after a period no longer
enhances readability, typographers say. It diminishes it.

Type professionals can get amusingly—if justifiably—overworked about
spaces. "Forget about tolerating differences of opinion:
typographically speaking, typing two spaces before the start of a new
sentence is absolutely, unequivocally wrong," Ilene Strizver, who runs
a typographic consulting firm The Type Studio, once wrote. "When I see
two spaces I shake my head and I go, Aye yay yay," she told me. "I
talk about 'type crimes' often, and in terms of what you can do wrong,
this one deserves life imprisonment. It's a pure sign of amateur
typography." "A space signals a pause," says David Jury, the author of
About Face: Reviving The Rules of Typography. "If you get a really big
pause—a big hole—in the middle of a line, the reader pauses. And you
don't want people to pause all the time. You want the text to flow."

This readability argument is debatable. Typographers can point to no
studies or any other evidence proving that single spaces improve
readability. When you press them on it, they tend to cite their
aesthetic sensibilities. As Jury says, "It's so bloody ugly."

But I actually think aesthetics are the best argument in favor of one
space over two. One space is simpler, cleaner, and more visually
pleasing (it also requires less work, which isn't nothing). A page of
text with two spaces between every sentence looks riddled with holes;
a page of text with an ordinary space looks just as it should.

Is this arbitrary? Sure it is. But so are a lot of our conventions for
writing. It's arbitrary that we write shop instead of shoppe, or phone
instead of fone, or that we use ! to emphasize a sentence rather than
%. We adopted these standards because practitioners of publishing—
writers, editors, typographers, and others—settled on them after
decades of experience. Among their rules was that we should use one
space after a period instead of two—so that's how we should do it.


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> Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period.http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2011/01/space_inv...
> space after a period instead of two—so that's how we should do it.- Hide quoted text -
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So delivering Pizzas is not your chosen carrer? You are an out of
work technical writer. Thats because now the cheap corporations have
eliminated you guys and are making the engineers do it.

somebody

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Jun 8, 2012, 9:35:43 PM6/8/12
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> So delivering Pizzas is not your chosen career? You are an out of
> work technical writer. That's because now the cheap corporations have
> eliminated you guys and are making the engineers do it.

Technically, I am not a technical writer. Though I did want to be one
25 years ago... I am just an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks, to
collect a bill. And deliver pizza.

Tommy Joe

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Jun 9, 2012, 6:03:47 AM6/9/12
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On Jun 8, 3:18 am, somebody <tom.ungvar...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Something about double spaces and I didn't have the slightest idea what he was talking about.


I don't know what you mean. Look, there's a period right there,
yet this is the same paragraph, no double space, not that I can see.
Maybe things look different on your computer, but to me my posts don't
look much different from those of anybody else except maybe Colonel
Jake or the Black Jester or the guy Bozo likes arguing with.

Now here's a new paragraph. I sometimes use them just to make
things easier to read, to make it look like less a chore to wade
through. But sometimes when I'm rolling I will write everything into
one paragraph and just hit the send button. But I prefer using
paragraphs when I can remember to do it. I have no idea what you're
talking about with the double spacing. I'm assuming you said that
just as an excuse to send in that long rambling typewriter essay that
was way too long for me or probably anyone on this group to read. And
in fact, anybody who would read would be instantly downgraded on my
respect chart.

TJ

somebody

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Jun 9, 2012, 9:38:02 AM6/9/12
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not double space between paragraphs. Double space after period
between sentences.

Tommy Joe

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Jun 9, 2012, 8:49:12 PM6/9/12
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On Jun 9, 9:38 am, somebody <tom.ungvar...@gmail.com> wrote:

> not double space between paragraphs.  Double space after period
> between sentences.


Oh yes, you're right, I do do that - but I never saw it as
something that might be bothersome to other people. It's a habit that
will not be easy to break. In fact I won't even try. In fact, I
might even go to 3 spaces instead of 2 - you know, just to make the 2
spaces suddenly look good to you. Do you know what I mean? Now
I'm using 4 spaces. Now 5. Now 6. Now go back and look at
the 2 space ones and you'll find they don't look so bad at all. No
actually, I didn't know right away what you meant, but you're right, I
do use two spaces after a sentence, and for some reason if I don't use
2 and go with only 1 it just doesn't look right to me. Have you
considered that maybe you're just a neurotic human being?

TJ

somebody

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Jun 10, 2012, 12:29:38 AM6/10/12
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I was told to use 2 spaces and still do, but I was told wrong. We
were told wrong. They lied to us.

Tommy Joe

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Jun 10, 2012, 4:55:33 AM6/10/12
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On Jun 10, 12:29 am, somebody <tom.ungvar...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I was told to use 2 spaces and still do, but I was told wrong.  We
> were told wrong.  They lied to us.



It was a good lie.

TJ

somebody

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Jun 10, 2012, 9:47:35 AM6/10/12
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it was a white lie. A white space lie. But it no longer makes
sense. Yet, out of habit-- it persists. Like me.

OllieN...@aol.com

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Jun 10, 2012, 6:13:08 PM6/10/12
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Ok,,, here is my stoopid story about style.. I am programmer. So
I worked at a joing where they insisted indenting tab was 3 spaces.
Most editors set tab to 4. So it had to be set. The style guide
actually said this "4 spaces is too many and 2 spaces is not enough so
use 3." Who gives a fuck.

somebody

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Jun 10, 2012, 8:34:26 PM6/10/12
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I think that may have been a ode to Monty Python and the Holy Grail
when they use the holy grenade again the killer rabbit.

Tommy Joe

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Jun 11, 2012, 1:41:32 AM6/11/12
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On Jun 10, 6:13 pm, OllieNort...@aol.com wrote:

> Ok,,,  here is my stoopid story about style..   I am programmer.   So
> I worked at a joing where they insisted indenting tab was 3 spaces.
> Most editors set tab to 4.  So it had to be set.   The style guide
> actually said this "4 spaces is too many and 2 spaces is not enough so
> use 3."   Who gives a fuck.


Man, you sound all "spaced out".

TJ

somebody

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Jun 11, 2012, 9:52:02 AM6/11/12
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Have you ever seen Spaced? Simon Pegg and some Brits. A bloke here
recommend it years ago. It's very funny, and interesting tv series.
Only about 20 eps, but all are tight and well done.

Tommy Joe

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Jun 12, 2012, 2:48:09 AM6/12/12
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On Jun 11, 9:52 am, somebody <tom.ungvar...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Have you ever seen Spaced?  Simon Pegg and some Brits.  A bloke here
> recommend it years ago.  It's very funny, and interesting tv series.
> Only about 20 eps, but all are tight and well done.


I've got more time on my hands than the average person, I'd guess -
but not enough of it to read or watch every last thing recommended by
you. I only have enough time to watch or read what I want, and if
there's any time left over, maybe one of these days I'll check out one
of the hundred plus things you've recommended my way thus far.

Till then, adieu
TJ

somebody

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Jun 12, 2012, 5:18:05 AM6/12/12
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Do you know who Simon Pegg is?

OllieN...@aol.com

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Jun 12, 2012, 4:08:31 PM6/12/12
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