Let's hear it for John Fund, respected Wall Street Journal writer, Clinton morality critic, frequent 700 club guest.....caught with his pants down??? P.S. Conservatives that don't throw hypocritical conservatives to the wolves are as bad as...well, never mind- I don't want to make this a partisan issue.
hate!!! arggggg!!! <ul> <li>I hate point guards dribbing basketballs off my forehead when I'm defending the 2 on 1 fastbreak <li>I hate burnt popcorn <li>I hate injuries to our front line </ul> phew!!!! Thanks for letting me get that off my chest!
Even the little crispy, partially popped kernals at the bottom of the bag that are kind of soggy from the butter, and have salt clinging to them? Are you friggin' CRAZY???? P.S. I read on an English grammar website that burned and burnt were both acceptable past tense version of the verb "burn" (who would have thunk it?). You are the first person I have seen use "burnt". How cosmopolitan of you.
Try a google search for "burnt popcorn." So, now I am confused; am I supposed to place the period inside the quotes or outside. And to think that I thought periods and commas always go inside quotation marks.
I hear they're actually selling partially popped popcorn kernels in stores now. Talk about a good idea.
I'd have to disagree. When you are putting something like "burnt popcorn" in quotes, you aren't excatly quoting, you're setting the words apart to indicate that you are talking about the words themselves. In such a case, I think all punctuation should remain outside the quotes because the periods and commas aren't integral to the concept discussed. Besides, according to Basic Verbal Skills (Second Edition) by Philip Burnham and Richard Lederer, punctuation which is not true to the original intent of the quoted source should be left outside quotation marks. So, for example: Did Nick really say, "You must not appreciate good music"? is a valid sentence structure. This doesn't have much to do with "burnt popcorn" other than the fact that you can see from this that there are exceptions to the rule that punctuation remains inside quotation marks.
