Boozehound? Boozehound!? (I kinda like that)

Dorothy Parker writes you, you wonderfully urbane,
witty boozehound, you.


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Language Rant

What ever happened to using case correctly? What compels people to type in ALL CAPS, or no caps at all, or with RANDOM words CAPITALIZED? And punctuation? What about punctuation? I can live with a misplaced comma or the occasional misused semicolon, but no punctuation at all? Consider the readability of the following passages:

there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face on the throne of england there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face on the throne of france in both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the state preserves of loaves and fishes that things in general were settled for ever

THERE WERE A KING WITH A LARGE JAW AND A QUEEN WITH A PLAIN FACE ON THE THRONE OF ENGLAND THERE WERE A KING WITH A LARGE JAW AND A QUEEN WITH A FAIR FACE ON THE THRONE OF FRANCE IN BOTH COUNTRIES IT WAS CLEARER THAN CRYSTAL TO THE LORDS OF THE STATE PRESERVES OF LOAVES AND FISHES THAT THINGS IN GENERAL WERE SETTLED FOR EVER

There were a King with a LARGE jaw and a QUEEN with a plain face, on the throne of England. There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a FAIR face, on the throne of France. In BOTH countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were SETTLED for ever.

Thiers a king w/ a lg jaw and a queen w/ a plain face on the throne of england. theirs a king w/ a large jaw and a queen w/ a fair face on the throne of france. In both countries it was clearer then crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loafs and fishs, that things in general were settled 4 ever.

There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever.

Yeah, I've been reading bulletin boards again. I've got to stop doing that. I need instead to spend more time reading correct English out of real, printed books before my own language skills deteriorate.

In case you are wondering why the passage sounds familar, it is the second paragraph of A Tale of Two Cities.

New Stuff Coming for Gothic BC

I'll announce this officially in the gothicbc community and on the mailing list when I am a little further along, but soon the Yahoo list will be no more. Avi has kindly set up a listserv on his computer (because mine is still underpowered crap... that'll be changing soon, too). I've been playing around with the settings tonight. No more advertising! Not to mention I can set up the list's web interface to match the rest of the website. First, though, I need to move the rest of the archive over to the website and build a better inface than just having the last 20 posts that show on the website's homepage. Once that is done I'll announce the change, close membership to the Yahoo group and start moving people over to the new list. Yay! No ads!