If Nancy Reagan was still alive I would send some awful wishes her way. Since she's already in the Bad Place, I guess those wishes will just go to Melanoma.
Since it’s movie night, guess there’s no open thread yet. Thus, will choose this site to note that WHCA should be drowned in a bathtub. They talk big, then award real money to someone who noted that Biden used the word ‘garbage’, allegedly in reference to MAGAts.
Welker, Daniels, etc. doth protest too much on their own behalf while treating the current administration as just another day on the beat. They are, though not in the Trumpian sense, the enemy of the people these days. Meanwhile, msnbc ditches Joy, Mehdi, Phang, etc. in favor of the blathering class,
I would agree that "a comma should go within the quotation marks," if it's part of a sentence, but I think when you're making a list of titles, for instance, "Like a Virgin", "Papa Don't Preach", and "Borderline", you treat each quoted bit as a proper noun in a list. But I could be wrong.
Read about a musical about another outspoken Roosevelt woman, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, who was First Lady-adjacent: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/10/24/white-house-princess-musical-preview-theater-alice-roosevelt/. I found out about it when the students who wrote it were putting up flyers in Harvard Yard looking for a cast, and I remembered about it just in time to see the last show. What a fine job they did! If we're lucky, they won't just put the script away, but they'll keep working on it and put on an even better show.
Those were amazing. I saw them some time ago so Michelle Obama's weren't there yet. But on my last trip I saw her portrait at the portrait gallery and that was cool. I saw Barack's portrait too but her line was longer.
So if Trump has wedged that weird stripey-flag image of himself between portraits of Laura Bush and Hilary Clinton, does that make him a First Lady too?
(yeah it looks wrong, and I don't actually make that mistake, I find a way to re arrange the whole fucking paragraph before I put any punctuation inside the quotes that was not actually part of the quote)
OK, in all seriousness, it’s just a made up convention, 1, and 2, is illogical.
Attorneys tell me they actually do this all the time, because legal, contracts, oxford comma etc.
I don’t really understand the hate. I even get it, it just looks and feels wrong, but why and who cares and do you have a warm safe place to sleep tonight, amd enough to eat?
If this turns into one of those pineapple on pizza things or whether or not hot dogs are sandwiches, I will first need to know Donald Chump's position on the matter.
When I think of first ladies, I think of Monica from Friends playing the one whose husband was in a coma or something so she had to run the government on Drunk History. How's that for not being able to remember a fucking thing?
The name is Melanoma.
If Nancy Reagan was still alive I would send some awful wishes her way. Since she's already in the Bad Place, I guess those wishes will just go to Melanoma.
Since it’s movie night, guess there’s no open thread yet. Thus, will choose this site to note that WHCA should be drowned in a bathtub. They talk big, then award real money to someone who noted that Biden used the word ‘garbage’, allegedly in reference to MAGAts.
Welker, Daniels, etc. doth protest too much on their own behalf while treating the current administration as just another day on the beat. They are, though not in the Trumpian sense, the enemy of the people these days. Meanwhile, msnbc ditches Joy, Mehdi, Phang, etc. in favor of the blathering class,
I would agree that "a comma should go within the quotation marks," if it's part of a sentence, but I think when you're making a list of titles, for instance, "Like a Virgin", "Papa Don't Preach", and "Borderline", you treat each quoted bit as a proper noun in a list. But I could be wrong.
Melon probably feverishly doom scrolling Pinterest for Christmas decor ideas.
Read about a musical about another outspoken Roosevelt woman, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, who was First Lady-adjacent: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/10/24/white-house-princess-musical-preview-theater-alice-roosevelt/. I found out about it when the students who wrote it were putting up flyers in Harvard Yard looking for a cast, and I remembered about it just in time to see the last show. What a fine job they did! If we're lucky, they won't just put the script away, but they'll keep working on it and put on an even better show.
Isn't she the one who said Thomas Dewey looked like the man on the wedding cake? And, do you know something? He did!
She had a pillow on her sofa that said "If you don't have anything nice to say, sit down here next to me."
Her father, Teddy, said "I can do one of two things... I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice. I cannot do both."
That's certainly possible.
Trump has a part-time wife and the United States has a part-time First Lady.
Don't tell Laura Loomer...
Is this appearing on the Kennedy Center Schedule, Revised?
I saw the First Ladies' Inaugural gowns at the Smithsonian, so I guess I'm good.
You were lucky. Within six months, the exhibit will feature only Republican First Ladies.
Those were amazing. I saw them some time ago so Michelle Obama's weren't there yet. But on my last trip I saw her portrait at the portrait gallery and that was cool. I saw Barack's portrait too but her line was longer.
Not gonna say that’s not making a comeback but that was a much earlier period than Hayes.
I assume Melania and her parents have already been deported.
So if Trump has wedged that weird stripey-flag image of himself between portraits of Laura Bush and Hilary Clinton, does that make him a First Lady too?
First Orange, Hopefully the Last Orange
UCLA is about as good at punctuation as they are at football. Meaning they suck.
Ha! Go Trojans!!
So the comma is part of the title?
Faith of Our Fathers,
???
Onward Christian Soldier,
???
Really? I'm with UCLA, logically.
(yeah it looks wrong, and I don't actually make that mistake, I find a way to re arrange the whole fucking paragraph before I put any punctuation inside the quotes that was not actually part of the quote)
Yeah the dogs pissed in my Wheaties, sorry.
I think I tend toward your way of thinking.
The sloppiest dumbest thing is when the comma is put "outside the quotation", I hate it almost as much as dear leader.
Especially when it's a run-on sentence which requires a semi-colon instead?
ha ha.
OK, in all seriousness, it’s just a made up convention, 1, and 2, is illogical.
Attorneys tell me they actually do this all the time, because legal, contracts, oxford comma etc.
I don’t really understand the hate. I even get it, it just looks and feels wrong, but why and who cares and do you have a warm safe place to sleep tonight, amd enough to eat?
That’s all that REALLY matters.
"UCLA should know to put the commas inside the quotation marks"
"Commas outside the quotation marks" is the more logical choice.
Inside the quotation marks, or outside, I don't care.
If this turns into one of those pineapple on pizza things or whether or not hot dogs are sandwiches, I will first need to know Donald Chump's position on the matter.
For myself, I don't much care, but I DO care when someone yells at me for putting the commas in what they consider to be the RONG place.
Then YOU'RE GOING TO HELL, because Jesus does.
Inside or outside - I don't mind
Inside of outside - the quotation's fine
YESSS!!!
When I think of first ladies, I think of Monica from Friends playing the one whose husband was in a coma or something so she had to run the government on Drunk History. How's that for not being able to remember a fucking thing?
Edith Wilson?
Back when Woody from Cheers tried to get the world to all get along.