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"he's in a comma."
Galigan Started conversation Mar 9, 2006
In Life on Mars the main guy is in a coma after being hit by a car and wakes up in 1973. When someone was talking about this they accidently put 'he's in a comma' instead of 'he's in a coma'. this sparked up a wonderful thread about how uncomfortable it would be being stuck inside pieces of punctuation.
so, ladies and gents, what in your opinion is the worst piece of punctuation to be stuck inside?
"he's in a comma."
kelli - ran 2 miles a day for 2012, aiming for the same for 2013 Posted Mar 9, 2006
An ellipse, because you'd slowly fade away...
"he's in a comma."
Galigan Posted Mar 9, 2006
what's an ellipse look like?
personally i think the % would be pretty uncomfortable, like going through a mangle. squish!
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Orcus Posted Mar 9, 2006
Depends how much of you is stuck up one surely 
A . would be tighter...
"he's in a comma."
kelli - ran 2 miles a day for 2012, aiming for the same for 2013 Posted Mar 9, 2006
What does an ellipse look like?
I wonder...
It could be...
Umm...
I'm over-fond of using them...
"he's in a comma."
Langly Posted Mar 9, 2006
Being stuck in a slash /// wouldn't be much fun either 
Lx
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U168592 Posted Mar 9, 2006
A colon? I think a semi-colon is probably far more gruesome...
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kelli - ran 2 miles a day for 2012, aiming for the same for 2013 Posted Mar 9, 2006
Plenty of people get stuck in pipes ||
"he's in a comma."
Mu Beta Posted Mar 9, 2006
If I was stuck in an 'and' @, I'd want a skateboard.
B
"he's in a comma."
Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired Posted Mar 9, 2006
Traveller in Time 
behind bars #
"How about beeing a punctuation ?
'You are such a dot . ' "
"he's in a comma."
Deep Doo Doo Posted Mar 9, 2006
I'd like to be a full stop, crammed between two commas. Never gonna happen grammatically, but I can dream...
).(
Oh, to be a full stop!!
"he's in a comma."
Deep Doo Doo Posted Mar 9, 2006
Ah, that looks much worse posted than it did when I typed it!
Can I be a delete key?
"he's in a comma."
Xanatic Posted Mar 9, 2006
Maybe a full stop stuck between some brackets.
(.)
Or even two of them.
(.)(.)
"he's in a comma."
Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired Posted Mar 10, 2006
Traveller in Time hyper
"I fall asleep
(--),(--) 
---
"
'he's in a comma.'
~:*-Venus-*:~ Posted Mar 10, 2006
I could be forgiven for being slow if i were stuck in one of these __@'-'
'he's in a comma.'
WanderingAlbatross - Wing-tipping down the rollers of life's ocean. Posted Mar 10, 2006
You'd need strong painkillers if you were ?
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Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor Posted Mar 10, 2006
I'm laughing so much I've forgotten what I was going to post!
Although, this thread reminds me of a line from The Simpsons which makes me laugh:
"To continue press any key"
Homer: "Where's the "any" key?"
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- 1: Galigan (Mar 9, 2006)
- 2: kelli - ran 2 miles a day for 2012, aiming for the same for 2013 (Mar 9, 2006)
- 3: Galigan (Mar 9, 2006)
- 4: eagle2 (Mar 9, 2006)
- 5: Alfster (Mar 9, 2006)
- 6: Orcus (Mar 9, 2006)
- 7: kelli - ran 2 miles a day for 2012, aiming for the same for 2013 (Mar 9, 2006)
- 8: Langly (Mar 9, 2006)
- 9: U168592 (Mar 9, 2006)
- 10: kelli - ran 2 miles a day for 2012, aiming for the same for 2013 (Mar 9, 2006)
- 11: Mu Beta (Mar 9, 2006)
- 12: Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired (Mar 9, 2006)
- 13: Deep Doo Doo (Mar 9, 2006)
- 14: Deep Doo Doo (Mar 9, 2006)
- 15: Xanatic (Mar 9, 2006)
- 16: Trin Tragula (Mar 9, 2006)
- 17: Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired (Mar 10, 2006)
- 18: ~:*-Venus-*:~ (Mar 10, 2006)
- 19: WanderingAlbatross - Wing-tipping down the rollers of life's ocean. (Mar 10, 2006)
- 20: Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor (Mar 10, 2006)
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