Rhys
the once and future
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The Society for the Protection of Periods met today to discuss the certain shortage of periods... "People wantonly abuse the period, far worse than the semicolon or the comma" said Chairwoman Patrice Fraglebutok, in a brief address to the Period Pundits Convention at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino, in fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada..."In fact, why use a period at all? "she argued, as the elipsis far better conveys the actual rhythm of natural speech as opposed to grammatical perfection which, we all know, "she paused dramatically, " does not really exist in reality..." This drew trememdous applause from the conventioneers who, after being dragged kicking and screaming from the craps tables listened obediantly while passing around a cell phone; said cellular instrument being used of course to place bets on who would first bring an end to the presumed period crisis...Briefly, governmental intervention was discussed, and a letter drafted to Senator Ernest Istook (R-OK) in which the Society Renamed itself the Rich Republicans For Grammatical Diplomacy Guild, in a misguided effort to capture Mr Istook's attention....finally the gavel on the podium was sounded, as it was time to break for lunch and a dip in the pool...sadly, Patrice Fraglebutok was eaten by a loggerhead turtle at the Shark Reef as she misread the poorly punctuated signs leading into the building...several other committee members were pulled from the Shark tank itself as they had confused the bubbles made by the divers on the cleaning crew for the rare and exotic crystal rainbow period...
no periods were harmed in the making of this communique...
no periods were harmed in the making of this communique...
