# Diogenes the Cynic?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diogenes-the-cynic/187922>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 12, 2003, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diogenes-the-cynic/187922 "2003-07-12T06:37:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Ben\_Hicks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbce88/32.png) [@Ben\_Hicks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ben_Hicks)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diogenes-the-cynic/187922/21 "2003-07-12T16:30:21Z")

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Speaking of colon’s, by the looks of the OP **Read\_Neck’s** might be spastic. I think it might be a good idea to give him a wide berth.

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**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diogenes-the-cynic/187922/22 "2003-07-12T17:48:05Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Desmostylus \*  
> \*\*That’s his job: dumbass. \*\*

This puts me in mind of something the poet Roger McGough did in England in the 1980s - repunctuate newspaper headlines. The only one I remember was:

**TORY GOVERNMENT UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES**

McGough repunctuated it thus:

**TORY GOVERNMENT: UNEMPLOYMENT. FIGURES.**

/end hijack

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**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diogenes-the-cynic/187922/23 "2003-07-12T18:16:31Z")

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Thank you **Desmostylus**. I need all the help I can get. And for someone who someday purports to be an English teacher (namely me), I hate not getting that shit right. _sigh_ Back to studying.

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**Author:** ![desdinova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8baadc/32.png) [@desdinova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/desdinova)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diogenes-the-cynic/187922/24 "2003-07-12T19:53:09Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by jjimm \*  
> \*\*This puts me in mind of something the poet Roger McGough did in England in the 1980s - repunctuate newspaper headlines. The only one I remember was:
> 
> **TORY GOVERNMENT UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES**
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> McGough repunctuated it thus:
> 
> **TORY GOVERNMENT: UNEMPLOYMENT. FIGURES.**
> 
> /end hijack \*\*

Reopen hijack:

WORKS ON CONTINGENCY  
NO MONEY DOWN

WORKS ON CONTINGENCY?  
NO, MONEY DOWN!

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