# "Atlas Chuckled"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlas-chuckled/827725>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 14, 2019, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlas-chuckled/827725 "2019-01-14T09:40:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2019, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlas-chuckled/827725/41 "2019-01-16T12:42:42Z")

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> [@kaylasdad99](#):
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> Or “preternatural.” :dubious:

Dean R. Koontz?

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**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2019, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlas-chuckled/827725/42 "2019-01-16T12:52:00Z")

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Robert Heinlein’s “So?” drove me nuts, until I figured out the speech pattern he was rendering. If he had just used a comma instead of a question mark, I would never have noticed it.

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