> > winter"Hope that helps"mute
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> Wow, sure did, thanks. You were obviously paying attention during that "Parlimentary Procedures Including Nuances of Opening Ceremony" class you took. (and see? you thought you'd never use it--you just never know, do you?)

Heh. "Britain" is my specialist subject, I think.

> > * When you have a smiley at the end of a parenthical, should you close the parenthises after it or not? Doing so looks clumsy to me, but not doing so makes it difficult to tell if the parenthical has actually ended? Does anyone have any advice? Does anyone else care?
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> I don't like to because it makes them look like they have double chins :-))

That's exactly the reason I don't like it. On the other hand, I'm too pendantic to leave the parenthises open, so I tend to try and arrange the sentence so that the two don't happen in the same place.

> koala"concedes that Queen/Parliment example did not illustrate her point"mom

winter"It was a nice workout :)"mute