# Allow me to show you what I can do now.. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 29, 2001, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allow-me-to-show-you-what-i-can-do-now/90343 "2001-10-29T19:17:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allow-me-to-show-you-what-i-can-do-now/90343/1 "2001-10-29T19:17:34Z")
Spaces spaces spaces. As many as I want all day and night if I want to. I just got my new keyboard. It’s a Microsoft Internet Pro. (insert pause while everyone yawns)It’s got all sorts of newfangled buttons but there is only one that thrills me as none other has ever done before–the spacebar. Now at least my typing won’t make me look like a total doofus. If I could only say as much for my thoughts,and typos. yippee!!! :doing the happy typing exercises: Let’s see how does that go? The quick brown fox jumped… ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allow-me-to-show-you-what-i-can-do-now/90343/2 "2001-10-29T19:21:56Z")
Thank God! Mermaid, you were drivin’ me nuts! ---
**Author:** ![MrVisible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrVisible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrVisible)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allow-me-to-show-you-what-i-can-do-now/90343/3 "2001-10-29T19:23:37Z")
Well, I for one will miss your little dashes. It gave your posts a frantic, breathless sort of feel, and I think I’ll just keep reading everything you post that way; in a Minnie Mouse-Marilyn Monroe on excessive caffeine sort of voice. Hope you don’t mind. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allow-me-to-show-you-what-i-can-do-now/90343/4 "2001-10-29T20:36:31Z")
Wow! I am so happy for you! Although the I-can’t-type-spaces-so-I’ll-just-use-dashes style of writing certainly was unique. I think it’s the sort of thing I’ll miss in that, “my that extra nose was a pain, I’m so glad it’s gone but oh remember when I laughed and shot milk out of all four nostrils” sort of way. If you know what I mean. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allow-me-to-show-you-what-i-can-do-now/90343/5 "2001-10-29T21:08:26Z")
JFTR i didn’t think of using dashes, my keyboard just decided to show a hyphen every time I hit the spacebar. Must have been that Coke someone spilled in it. It’s all a bad memory now. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allow-me-to-show-you-what-i-can-do-now/90343/6 "2001-10-29T21:17:16Z")
Gee-and-I-was-getting-used-to-the-way-you-were-typing-and-I-really-was-beginning-to-like-it! ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allow-me-to-show-you-what-i-can-do-now/90343/7 "2001-10-29T22:43:56Z")
And here I was **this** || close to suggesting you C&P a space and use it . . .