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Re: Another Punctuation Question

Subject: Re: Another Punctuation Question
From: "William Sherman" <bsherman77 -at- embarqmail -dot- com>
To: "'techwrl'" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:08:45 -0500

Come on, guys, that is an old Three Stooges skit.

Stooges trying to get into an event.

Moe: "Press."

Larry: "Press."

Curly: "Pull."




----- Original Message ----- From: "Cardimon, Craig" <ccardimon -at- M-S-G -dot- com>
To: "'Margaret Cekis'" <margaret -dot- cekis -at- comcast -dot- net>
Cc: "'techwrl'" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 2:52 PM
Subject: RE: Another Punctuation Question


Playing Humorous Devil's Advocate, I was thinking of Pull as the opposite of Press.

*If they don't like Press, how about Pull*

This is one of the many reasons I don't use humor in tech writing. It's very hard to make it fly.



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