032: You Sneezed All Over Julius Caesar Dithers
Brooke McEldowney defends his use of the ellipsis, so we take him down.
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Show Notes
After becoming convinced that Brooke Mac-El-Dee himself is listening to this podcast, we take a deep dive into his poor history with the ellipsis (and other punctuation). You see, in one strip, he makes a point of "educating" everyone about the use of an ellipsis. According to The Master, it is only used to indicated omitted words. And that is not only not true, it is also not how he has EVER used the ellipsis in his own work. In fact, we're not sure he has used it that way even once. So we go back through the strips we've already discussed and actually count the periods. (So many periods.) We also talk about a handful of strips where he "has fun" with punctuation with "hilarious" results. All in all, a fitting way to end the year.
The Chickweed strips we discuss this episode:
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This ..... episode includes:
- Sneezing
- Diet Cokes
- Christmas
- Back trouble
- riding a Segway
- spot-eyed cats
- semi-colon misuse
- Ross & Rachel
- Sam & Diane
- Katniss & Peeta
- motorboating
- Eddie Izzard talks about Englebert Humperdinck
- Underwood Farms
- Goat habitrail
- Goat poop
- Welcome Back, Kotter
- Peanuts
- Comma splice
- Kilroy Was Here
- Tiger Beat
- Leif Garrett
- Shaun Cassidy
- William Frawley's pants
- Mowgli from The Jungle Book
- The Dark Crystal
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