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  • #16
    Re: Oil for The Gears, Revisited

    I went from second to first shift in the same position.

    Well, the guy on second complains about everything, thinks he's the boss, will rat you out for the slightest thing, and doesn't really do anything.

    What makes me feel good? No one wants to work with him. That position is open, and no one will take it because they know what this person will do.

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    • #17
      Re: Oil for The Gears, Revisited

      Two spaces after every period!!!!

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      • #18
        Re: Oil for The Gears, Revisited

        Originally posted by joecct View Post
        Forgive me Father, for I have sinned. I was in the two-space camp, but in the past year I have slipped.

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        • #19
          Re: Oil for The Gears, Revisited

          Originally posted by joecct View Post
          I was taught two spaces in grade school, and I kept the habit to this day. IIRC it comes from the early days of typesetting when it was easy to confuse a period with a comma, so the second space helped.

          Most word processors/forums/word accepting thingies will autocorrect to one space now anyway (I think this is one of them.)

          Another fun one I was taught: if a quote or parenthesis ends a sentence, the full stop period goes INSIDE them, "like this."
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          • #20
            Re: Oil for The Gears, Revisited

            Originally posted by joecct View Post
            **** right.

            Cornell '04, Stanford '06


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            Test to see if I can add this.

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            • #21
              Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View Post
              Forgive me Father, for I have sinned. I was in the two-space camp, but in the past year I have slipped.
              You are forgiven, my child. For even this board smiteth the second space.
              CCT '77 & '78
              4 kids
              5 grandsons (BCA 7/09, CJA 5/14, JDL 8/14, JFL 6/16, PJL 7/18)
              1 granddaughter (EML 4/18)

              ”Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”
              - Benjamin Franklin

              Banned from the St. Lawrence University Facebook page - March 2016 (But I got better).

              I want to live forever. So far, so good.

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              • #22
                Re: Oil for The Gears, Revisited

                Originally posted by Twitch Boy View Post
                I was taught two spaces in grade school, and I kept the habit to this day. IIRC it comes from the early days of typesetting when it was easy to confuse a period with a comma, so the second space helped.

                Most word processors/forums/word accepting thingies will autocorrect to one space now anyway (I think this is one of them.)

                Another fun one I was taught: if a quote or parenthesis ends a sentence, the full stop period goes INSIDE them, "like this."
                A period should only be inside the parenthesis if the entire sentence is contained in it. For quotes, it's context-specific.
                Code:
                As of 9/21/10:         As of 9/13/10:
                College Hockey 6       College Football 0
                BTHC 4                 WCHA FC:  1
                Originally posted by SanTropez
                May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
                Originally posted by bigblue_dl
                I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
                Originally posted by Kepler
                When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
                He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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                • #23
                  Re: Oil for The Gears, Revisited

                  Originally posted by Twitch Boy View Post
                  I was taught two spaces in grade school, and I kept the habit to this day. IIRC it comes from the early days of typesetting when it was easy to confuse a period with a comma, so the second space helped.

                  Most word processors/forums/word accepting thingies will autocorrect to one space now anyway (I think this is one of them.)

                  Another fun one I was taught: if a quote or parenthesis ends a sentence, the full stop period goes INSIDE them, "like this."
                  ^^^^^^
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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by Brenthoven View Post
                    ^^^^^^
                    I do two spaces as habit. Doing tons of papers now for grad school and I cannot stop myself from doing two spaces

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                    • #25
                      Re: Oil for The Gears, Revisited

                      Originally posted by Deutsche Gopher Fan View Post
                      I do two spaces as habit. Doing tons of papers now for grad school and I cannot stop myself from doing two spaces
                      I've been developing and re-writing a bunch of our engineering business processes and you can tell immediately if I'm the author:
                      --Two spaces
                      --Oxford comma
                      --Consistent punctuation
                      --Consistent formatting

                      I have zero problems with using two spaces. You can always do a find/replace when you're done instead of fixing every instance flagged by grammar check.
                      Code:
                      As of 9/21/10:         As of 9/13/10:
                      College Hockey 6       College Football 0
                      BTHC 4                 WCHA FC:  1
                      Originally posted by SanTropez
                      May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
                      Originally posted by bigblue_dl
                      I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
                      Originally posted by Kepler
                      When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
                      He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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                      • #26
                        Re: Oil for The Gears, Revisited

                        I had to unlearn two spaces. I didn’t even know it was a thing until taking a typing test for job consideration in Ohio. Someone asked before the test started. I’ve been doing it ever since.
                        I was told there would be no math...

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                        • #27
                          Re: Oil for The Gears, Revisited

                          You can pry the Oxford comma from my cold, dead hands.
                          Never really developed a taste for tequila. Kind of hard to understand how you make a drink out of something that sharp, inhospitable. Now, bourbon is easy to understand.
                          Tastes like a warm summer day. -Raylan Givens

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                          • #28
                            Re: Oil for The Gears, Revisited

                            Originally posted by Brenthoven View Post
                            You can pry the Oxford comma from my cold, dead hands.
                            Amen.

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                            • #29
                              Originally posted by Brenthoven View Post
                              You can pry the Oxford comma from my cold, dead, hands.
                              Fixed it.

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                              • #30
                                Re: Oil for The Gears, Revisited

                                Originally posted by joecct View Post
                                Most notably, the test subjects read paragraphs in Courier New, a fixed-width font similar to the old typewriters, and rarely used on modern computers.
                                Personally I think two-spacing is unnecessary with variable-width fonts.

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