# Nitpick this thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 6, 2007, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732 "2007-10-06T04:45:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![dmatsch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@dmatsch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dmatsch)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/121 "2007-10-12T21:31:23Z")
Myne poetic license just aspired, tho. …the previous statement has been provided _sic_ ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/122 "2007-10-12T23:24:23Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] _Parenthesis_ is the singular form of _parentheses_. I shouldn’t have to write ninety-five theses about this subject. [/QUOTE] Well, there’s that, but, in the original statement, doesn’t the poster mean “quotes” or “quotation marks” where he has “parenthesis”? ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/123 "2007-10-12T23:38:54Z")
Good, God, I have heard of grammer police, but I didn’t know the SDMB had a registered SDMB grammer SWAT team. SSG Schwartz ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/124 "2007-10-12T23:58:03Z")
[QUOTE=SSG Schwartz] Good, God, I have heard of grammer police, but I didn’t know the SDMB had a registered SDMB grammer SWAT team. SSG Schwartz [/QUOTE] GRAMM **A** R, people. (That is, unless I’m being whooshed.) ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2007, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/125 "2007-10-13T00:04:55Z")
[QUOTE=SSG Schwartz] Good, God, I have heard of grammer police, but I didn’t know the SDMB had a registered SDMB grammer SWAT team. SSG Schwartz [/QUOTE] I think they are quite funny. Do not you? (No contractions, eh) ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2007, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/126 "2007-10-13T00:09:11Z")
I love it when they jump out of choppers and spray metaphors all over. SSG Schwartz ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2007, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/127 "2007-10-13T01:26:36Z")
[QUOTE=SSG Schwartz] I love it when they jump out of choppers and spray metaphors all over. SSG Schwartz [/QUOTE] Nitpick: You forgot to mention the allegorical bazookas. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2007, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/128 "2007-10-13T01:49:49Z")
[QUOTE=SSG Schwartz] Good, God, I have heard of grammer police, but I didn’t know the SDMB had a registered SDMB grammer SWAT team. [/QUOTE] With a mandatory death sentence (pun intended) imposed on any offenders brought in alive. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2007, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/129 "2007-10-13T01:55:30Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] With a mandatory death sentence (pun intended) imposed on any offenders brought in alive. [/QUOTE] Who imposes the sentence? The team, or some judicial authority? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2007, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/130 "2007-10-13T02:16:21Z")
[QUOTE=Governor Quinn] Who imposes the sentence? The team, or some judicial authority? [/QUOTE] A comma is not necessary after “team.” OFF WITH YOUR HEAD. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2007, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/131 "2007-10-13T05:15:21Z")
[QUOTE=pulykamell] Well, there’s that, but, in the original statement, doesn’t the poster mean “quotes” or “quotation marks” where he has “parenthesis”? [/QUOTE] Yes, this is correct. However, you needed to have used a semicolon after “there’s that” instead of the comma as you are joining two independent clauses. While the first clause is short, the second is riddled with commas already. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2007, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/132 "2007-10-13T17:11:26Z")
Answering the O.P. I can find fault with nothing whatsoever in its contents . A fine post in every way except that you slipped up a little in asking for nitpicks on a post that otherwise couldn’t be nitpicked . A pity really cos the post was fine until you actually posted it. A message fot us all I think. Or do I? ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2007, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/133 "2007-10-13T22:42:56Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] A comma is not necessary after “team.” OFF WITH YOUR HEAD. [/QUOTE] No? ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2007, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/134 "2007-10-14T00:35:00Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] A comma is not necessary after “team.” OFF WITH YOUR HEAD. [/QUOTE] _All caps ended by a period?!?_ Do you know how much of an anti-climax that is? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2007, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/135 "2007-10-14T02:03:38Z")
Well, shall we see how many question marks can be used at the end of a sentence??? ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2008, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/136 "2008-02-17T06:26:07Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] Well, shall we see how many question marks can be used at the end of a sentence??? [/QUOTE] Why??? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2008, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/137 "2008-02-17T07:12:01Z")
Properly known as “interrogation points”. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2008, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/138 "2008-02-17T13:13:57Z")
[QUOTE=SSG Schwartz] Why??? [/QUOTE] Because!!! ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2008, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/139 "2008-02-17T13:24:10Z")
Nitpick: poking zombies is poor form. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2008, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732/140 "2008-02-17T13:52:40Z")
[QUOTE=bbs2k] Nitpick: poking zombies is poor form. [/QUOTE] I don’t see what my old girlfriends have to do with anything. :mad: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nitpick-this-thread/421732.md?page=6)