You should have told them it was ticking.
OK, the kid brought a dangerous and hazardous clock to school… an obviously unsafe clock. :rolleyes:
Some kid brought an old iPhone to school, that he took apart and put in a new plastic container. He had “invented” an iPhone, and wanted to show his teacher. The teacher noticed it might look like a gun, and told him to not show it to anyone else. After the kid made sure other people saw it, and he got arrested by idiots, who knew it wasn’t a gun, his defenders mentioned it was just an iPhone, and it was stupid to make a big deal about it.
They knew it wasn’t a gun, just a phone.
The story had a happy ending. Gun nuts gave the kid a whole bunch of cool stuff, and got to be on TV and go to the White House.
May I keep calling you D’Orange ? I think of you guys as the characters from Alexandre Dumbass’s famous novel The Three Mousketeers: Terros, Maggotose, Smaptis and D’Orange.
sometimes a door-hinge is just a doorhinge
No.
May I refer to you as his assholyness?
Except when it unhinged…sorry, setup lines like that come along once in a great while.
press on.
Cite for dangerous, hazardous, unsafe? :rolleyes:
Cool story. I like happy endings 
It had wires, which are inherently dangerous. Also, D’Orange is deeply stupid.
My post is my cite.
You should have told them it was a clock.
OK, you should have told them that the duffle bag was a dangerous and hazardous clock . . . and obviously unsafe clock.
First of all, that’s stupid (and yes, I’m including “bell hooks”). Proper names should be capitalized. Secondly, everything after the colon there was intended as a separate block of text. Perhaps I should have used a carriage return, but in any case I would have capitalized *any *word after that colon, even a lowly article like “The”.
Doorhinge is an improper colon, a.k.a. an indecent ass? Who’d a thunk it!
Point of order:
Online handles, while proper nouns, have generally been held exempt from the leading caps convention. My handle is andros. I’m not offended by capitalizing it, and even less so at the beginning of a sentence, but it is not *accurate *to capitalize it.
I support doorhinge entirely on this–and only this–point. His insistence on having his name spelled correctly is no more stupid than, say, including a capital “I” in one’s name.
I agree with andros and doorhinge regarding username capitalization. And I say this for two reasons:
- andros is correct on the general exemption, and
- I can’t resist the sheer novelty of using the phrase “I agree with andros and doorhinge.” I may never get this chance again.
xenophon41 Johnson’s right about Olson Johnson being right!
Now who can argue with that?
Cite?
I just think (and will say so “out loud” since this is the Pit) that there’s something insufferably precious about purposely spelling a name (especially one like Andros, that is an actual name) all in lower case. The only thing that can be said for it is that it’s not as gratingly obnoxious as that '90s trend of mIxiNg loWeRcaSE anD uPpErcAse leTtErS together with no apparent rhyme or reason.
Jesus. Really? You’re fucking with me here right, SlackerInc?
You choose your idiotic fake name, I’ll choose mine. Think of it any way you want, I certainly can’t be fucked to try to talk you out of it.
I thought SlackerInc was continuing the Blazing Saddles theme and offering up some authentic Frontier Gibberish.
I didn’t think this discussion could get any more pointless yet here we are, debating the capitalization of usernames. Truly the Internet continues to beget wonders.