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Re: Free Metro service on Oct 13 and 14

#1987
From: John R Cambron
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&#8217;t really help here either. I&#8217;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?

[&#8217;] 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!@#$%^&*()987654321)(*&^%$#@!

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From: John R Cambron <*cambronj@chesapeake.net*>
Newsgroups: dc.driving,dc.general,dc.urban-planning,dc.biking
Subject: Re: Free Metro service on Oct 13 and 14
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