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I LOVE exclamation marks!!!!!!

Sean the frumious Bandersnatch

06:02 / 26.03.06

Hey, It's Sean. I haven't had wasted barbe-space with a new topic in a while because my last one was lucky number 23 and I don't believe in that shit but figured it made me special. It needs to be said- I love exclaimation points!! So many of my past screen names have had !!!!!s at the end of them, a good use of valuable word space.

Who else loves the "!"? How many !!!s are too much? And what is supposed to come first, the question mark or the exclaimation point?! or !?

I notice my boy Qalyn has a ! at the end of his screen name! King Jack doesn't need one, because every one of his posts is like a super-long !!!! in the form or real words.

Jack Denfeld

06:05 / 26.03.06

I probably abuse the ! in most of my posts though. I just get so excited.

Dead Megatron

09:05 / 26.03.06

???????????????????????????????????????

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Triplets

13:52 / 26.03.06

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13:55 / 26.03.06

!-_-!

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

I prefer elipses...

...Really?

iamus

20:56 / 26.03.06

...Really!

Char Aina

22:28 / 26.03.06

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:36 / 26.03.06

"Exclaimation"?????????

Wow, I've just sat mesmerized for a few minutes by those dancing exclamation marks after a drum & bass track came on my iTunes randomly. That was good. Oh, I mean: That was good!!! Yes, it must be time for bed...

Olulabelle

11:42 / 27.03.06

Exclamation marks make an 'unk' sound in my head.

This thread is very noisy.

paranoidwriter waves hello

12:00 / 27.03.06

what is supposed to come first, the question mark or the exclaimation point?! or !?

I was once told by a BA Writing tutor that you should never put a question mark alongside an exclamation mark. But what does ze know, right?! Also, although I quite like its name, the "interrobang" is a poor substitute: ‽

Mistoffelees

16:20 / 27.03.06

Exclamation marks make an 'unk' sound in my head.

And "!?" sounds like that scratching record sound: when something surprising happens in a romance-comedy movie trailer.

Char Aina

18:48 / 27.03.06

great description!

"congratulions!"

screeaweeeuhnk!

"for what? i'm not pregnant!"

cue theme

Triplets

18:58 / 27.03.06

"What kind of a host invites you to his house for the weekend and dies on you?"

!?

"Why don't we just pretend he didn't die? Just for a bit! "

Dead Megatron

19:19 / 27.03.06

Of course there woulb be some Weekend at Bernie's reference here.

It was inevitable!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!1!!

Char Aina

19:22 / 27.03.06

!nev!table!!!!!!!!!!ELEVENTEENANDELEVEN!?

Char Aina

19:34 / 27.03.06

the interrobang always makes me think of glenda slagg, to be honest.

IN-TERR-O-BANG,EY!?!!!?
OO-ER?!, PHWOARR!?, ETC!!!?!?

paranoidwriter waves hello

19:40 / 27.03.06

Or something you could buy in Honeydukes.

But it's such an uncomfortable looking symbol. The question and exclamation marks look like they're both trying to get through a door at the same time. Imagine the conversation they'd have:

"?"
"!"
"?"
"!"

(Sorry: I haven't slept for 32 hours. Off to bed!)

Dead Megatron

19:44 / 27.03.06

How does a "!1!1!" sounds like?

Char Aina

19:50 / 27.03.06

like two exclamation marks would, but with a split second of everybody honking at a busy set of lights in between.

Sean the frumious Bandersnatch

21:12 / 27.03.06

I don't think I've seen an interrobang in a while, if ever. How do I type it on my keyboard?

A long stream of !!!!s don't sound like anything for me, it just seems like the writer opens his eyes really wide and does a crazy face after he finishes the sentence to convince you that it's as exciting as it should be. I like the idea of, for REALLY exciting sentences, =replacing all i's with !s. or example-

"Sorry, darl!ng, but ! can't do the d!shes ton!ght because the k!tchen l!ghtbulb fell !n love with our wash!ng mach!ne and now they're mov!ng to Ch!na to ra!se a fam!ly!!!"

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