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Article #1987Re: Free Metro service on Oct 13 and 14
From: John R Cambron
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2001 23:45
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2001 23:45
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"Keith F. Lynch" wrote: > > William <William_Garner2@excite.com> wrote: > > So, are the free fares available just for the disabled? A serial > > comma wouldn’t really help here either. I’m assuming > > this is for all customers, and not just the disabled. > > I don't know about commas, but are you familiar with apostrophes? > Your readability would be improved if you used an apostophe wherever > you use ampersand pound sign eight two one seven semicolon. What's > with that, anyway? [’] is HTML markup for ['] 'apostrophe' There are many markup code equivalents for punctuation characters and other extended character. > Also, you might try quote marks in place of ampersand pound sign eight > two two zero semicolon and ampersand pound sign eight two two one > semicolon. > > No doubt you'll say you never typed in anything of the sort, and have > no idea how that got there. I think I'll play that game too$!1776#@ > and start randomly replacing my punctuation marks with random > assembleges of digits and other characters*%1492?! and indignantly > deny all knowledge when anyone asks me what I think I=3.141592[\]m > doing!@#$%^&*()987654321)(*&^%$#@! -- ====================================================================== Transit Geek http://www.chesapeake.net/~cambronj/wmata/ Model Railroader HO N John R Cambron http://www.chesapeake.net/~cambronj/sunbelt/ North Beach MD USA Railroad Geek cambronj@chesapeake.net Carpenter, back to building houses, I am still too old for this stuff. ======================================================================
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