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and this:
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The beginning of the sentence doesn't agree with the end.

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I think it's very good of you to set up a bit of practice

cheeky

Oop - capital 'c' on 'cheeky', there ...

I'll give you a capital bleedin' C you 'orrible little man! Come back here and let me beat you with my shamrock!

that is, if you are indeed a man. or 'orrible. or little.

Guilty on two counts

(I'm about six feet tall).

"that is, if you are indeed a man. or 'orrible. or little."

You really need a capital 'T' there...

A capital T? Blow that for a game of soldiers, I'm off for a cup of

You forgot the full stop at the end of that sentence, but I won't point it out.

I'll take some too.

Leo actually brings up an interesting point. Does the smiley go inside or outside the punctuation? [or] punctuation?

Well, sometimes, like , it's part of the sentence.
Then I imagine it should go in.

If it expresses an emotion integral to the sentence, it should go in, (according to my book ).

Oh, and congrats on your quizbowl team.

(Smiley was an external concept, really a second sentence. Hmm... I feel an entry coming on...)

In honor of quizbowl, I have a trivia question - can anyone name an EG entry with a smiley in it? I'll give you a hint, it's got the smiley outside the punctuation.

I can sympathize, MJ. I once set up a League of Obsessive Nitpickers (LOON) and got the biggest response from smarts like this...

Thanks, Leo. We're the league champions - next week we're up for the city championship.

I don't know ... I tend to always put my smileys outside of the punctuation. Like so.

Do tell, Jodan!

A676965 is the only one, I believe. Check out the footnotes

Ah, but lets say we collaborated on an entry about smilies and punctuation, thrashed out a whole slew of rules, etc.
They'd have to let another entry through with smilies in it.

Oh so tempting!