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Re: Add a Word to the Story

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"How does one man read newspapers upsidedown while annihilating hamsters by the dozen?" inquired the Chief Director, sipping plum enhancers all day long. "Why does a baby know why scientologists happen to be utter morons, when adults see nothing out of their own disposition?". Two of his henchmen hit the giant screen resulting in propoganda
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"How does one man read newspapers upsidedown while annihilating hamsters by the dozen?" inquired the Chief Director, sipping plum enhancers all day long. "Why does a baby know why scientologists happen to be utter morons, when adults see nothing out of their own disposition?". Two of his henchmen hit the giant screen resulting in propaganda for
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How does one man read newspapers upsidedown while annihilating hamsters by the dozen?" inquired the Chief Director, sipping plum enhancers all day long. "Why does a baby know why scientologists happen to be utter morons, when adults see nothing out of their own disposition?". Two of his henchmen hit the giant screen resulting in propaganda for a
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Re: Add a Word to the Story

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How does one man read newspapers upsidedown while annihilating hamsters by the dozen?" inquired the Chief Director, sipping plum enhancers all day long. "Why does a baby know why scientologists happen to be utter morons, when adults see nothing out of their own disposition?". Two of his henchmen hit the giant screen resulting in propaganda for a diabolical
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How does one man read newspapers upsidedown while annihilating hamsters by the dozen?" inquired the Chief Director, sipping plum enhancers all day long. "Why does a baby know why scientologists happen to be utter morons, when adults see nothing out of their own disposition?". Two of his henchmen hit the giant screen resulting in propaganda for a diabolical anglerfish
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Re: Add a Word to the Story

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The idea for this is epic. Also, as far as I've learnt, only full stops get replaced by commas when a spoken sentence is in a longer sentence AND! only if that sentence is then continued. Since this was the end of his sentence (a question ending in 'dozen'), the '?' would be correct here. The final mark would even be a full stop (officially) if it was a regular sentence and it ended there - even though I myself don't abide by that rule.
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"How does one man read newspapers upsidedown while annihilating hamsters by the dozen?" inquired the Chief Director, sipping plum enhancers all day long. "Why does a baby know why scientologists happen to be utter morons, when adults see nothing out of their own disposition?". Two of his henchmen hit the giant screen resulting in propaganda for a diabolical anglerfish terraforming
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All right, let's go with that approach then :) I always thought the way of handling the punctuation like it is in a normal sentence was more clear, but, having read a lot of books lately, I saw the comma thing a lot and kind of adopted is as my own.

Well then:
"How does one man read newspapers upsidedown while annihilating hamsters by the dozen?" inquired the Chief Director, sipping plum enhancers all day long. "Why does a baby know why scientologists happen to be utter morons, when adults see nothing out of their own disposition?". Two of his henchmen hit the giant screen resulting in propaganda for a diabolical anglerfish terraforming a
(can't do much else, can I? :P)
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I'll give you an example:
"Look here," Shrooblord said, "the thing with the punctuation really is easy."
"Is it really though?" Decidetto responded, "Because when I end my sentences while the story adds to my quote, I get all confused!" he quickly added.
"It's fairly simple, yes." Shrooblord replied, "Since all you have to do is watch out whether or not someone stopped talking - and if they're line would've otherwise ended in a full stop or not."
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This is how it should be done. However, in all my own stories, I prefer to use...
"It's fairly simple, yes," Shrooblord replied,

... for some reason. I just do.

No more to add to the story. Do continue.
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"Reading my 'name' in that illustrative mini-story made a wide grin appear between my cheeks!" Decidetto answered the kind man, "Though you seem to have made a mistake yourself!" he dared to add. "Namely the confusing of 'their' and 'they're' with one another."

The example really helped though! :D

Erm, so can I go again then, in adding a word?

"How does one man read newspapers upsidedown while annihilating hamsters by the dozen?" inquired the Chief Director, sipping plum enhancers all day long. "Why does a baby know why scientologists happen to be utter morons, when adults see nothing out of their own disposition?". Two of his henchmen hit the giant screen resulting in propaganda for a diabolical anglerfish terraforming a highly
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"How does one man read newspapers upsidedown while annihilating hamsters by the dozen?" inquired the Chief Director, sipping plum enhancers all day long. "Why does a baby know why scientologists happen to be utter morons, when adults see nothing out of their own disposition?" Two of his henchmen hit the giant screen resulting in propaganda for a diabolical anglerfish terraforming a highly infertile
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Decidetto wrote:"Reading my 'name' in that illustrative mini-story made a wide grin appear between my cheeks!" Decidetto answered the kind man, "Though you seem to have made a mistake yourself!" he dared to add. "Namely the confusing of 'their' and 'they're' with one another."
Well, I guess that's what you get for posting at half one at night. Usually I'm more attentive of those sort of things.
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"How does one man read newspapers upsidedown while annihilating hamsters by the dozen?" inquired the Chief Director, sipping plum enhancers all day long. "Why does a baby know why scientologists happen to be utter morons, when adults see nothing out of their own disposition?" Two of his henchmen hit the giant screen resulting in propaganda for a diabolical anglerfish terraforming a highly infertile monstrosity ...
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"How does one man read newspapers upsidedown while annihilating hamsters by the dozen?" inquired the Chief Director, sipping plum enhancers all day long. "Why does a baby know why scientologists happen to be utter morons, when adults see nothing out of their own disposition?" Two of his henchmen hit the giant screen resulting in propaganda for a diabolical anglerfish terraforming a highly infertile monstrosity named
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"How does one man read newspapers upsidedown while annihilating hamsters by the dozen?" inquired the Chief Director, sipping plum enhancers all day long. "Why does a baby know why scientologists happen to be utter morons, when adults see nothing out of their own disposition?" Two of his henchmen hit the giant screen resulting in propaganda for a diabolical anglerfish terraforming a highly infertile monstrosity named Ruphaloburblax
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"How does one man read newspapers upsidedown while annihilating hamsters by the dozen?" inquired the Chief Director, sipping plum enhancers all day long. "Why does a baby know why scientologists happen to be utter morons, when adults see nothing out of their own disposition?" Two of his henchmen hit the giant screen resulting in propaganda for a diabolical anglerfish terraforming a highly infertile monstrosity named Ruphaloburblax. Because
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"How does one man read newspapers upsidedown while annihilating hamsters by the dozen?" inquired the Chief Director, sipping plum enhancers all day long. "Why does a baby know why scientologists happen to be utter morons, when adults see nothing out of their own disposition?" Two of his henchmen hit the giant screen resulting in propaganda for a diabolical anglerfish terraforming a highly infertile monstrosity named Ruphaloburblax. Because science
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"How does one man read newspapers upsidedown while annihilating hamsters by the dozen?" inquired the Chief Director, sipping plum enhancers all day long. "Why does a baby know why scientologists happen to be utter morons, when adults see nothing out of their own disposition?" Two of his henchmen hit the giant screen resulting in propaganda for a diabolical anglerfish terraforming a highly infertile monstrosity named Ruphaloburblax. Because science proved
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"How does one man read newspapers upsidedown while annihilating hamsters by the dozen?" inquired the Chief Director, sipping plum enhancers all day long. "Why does a baby know why scientologists happen to be utter morons, when adults see nothing out of their own disposition?" Two of his henchmen hit the giant screen resulting in propaganda for a diabolical anglerfish terraforming a highly infertile monstrosity named Ruphaloburblax. Because science proved absolutely
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"How does one man read newspapers upsidedown while annihilating hamsters by the dozen?" inquired the Chief Director, sipping plum enhancers all day long. "Why does a baby know why scientologists happen to be utter morons, when adults see nothing out of their own disposition?" Two of his henchmen hit the giant screen resulting in propaganda for a diabolical anglerfish terraforming a highly infertile monstrosity named Ruphaloburblax. Because science proved absolutely nothing
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"How does one man read newspapers upsidedown while annihilating hamsters by the dozen?" inquired the Chief Director, sipping plum enhancers all day long. "Why does a baby know why scientologists happen to be utter morons, when adults see nothing out of their own disposition?" Two of his henchmen hit the giant screen resulting in propaganda for a diabolical anglerfish terraforming a highly infertile monstrosity named Ruphaloburblax. Because science proved absolutely nothing, Jason
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