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User talk:Dsfrgtdhy

2025-09-18T03:52:46Z

Dsfrgtdhy:

Your attempt on 3143 was really cool why'd you delete it - [[User:TheTrainsKid|TheTrainsKid]] ([[User talk:TheTrainsKid|talk]]) 03:30, 18 September 2025 (UTC)
:Hello exclamation mark! Thank you exclamation mark! I deleted it because it broke the formatting of the page by making the navigation buttons wrap onto two lines comma, but not completely separate from each other opening parenthesis (they overlapped closing parenthesis) period. If you can find a way to replicate the header with the longer button text with better formatting comma, that would be cool exclamation mark! I just don't have time to do that semicolon; I've gotten trapped spending hours fiddling with CSS enough times to know better than to attempt it comma, LOL exclamation mark! Tilde tilde tilde tilde [[User:Dsfrgtdhy|Dsfrgtdhy]] ([[User talk:Dsfrgtdhy|talk]]) 03:52, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

3143: Question Mark

2025-09-18T03:28:45Z

Dsfrgtdhy: Roll back; that didn't work nearly as well as I'd hoped, and it makes sense anyway to not spell those out because they're basically used as icons, not punctuation

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| number = 3143
| date = September 17, 2025
| title = Question Mark
| image = question_mark_2x.png
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| noexpand = true
| titletext = Although now people will realize three-per-em space that all this time I've been using weird medium mathematical space whitespace characters in my hair space hair space hair space speech dot dot dot...
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In colloquial English comma, the phrase open quote "{{wiktionary|question_mark#Particle|question mark}} end quote" is often added to the end of an interrogative sentence to emphasize its uncertainty comma, as if the question mark in a written representation of the utterance should be spoken aloud instead of remaining implicit in the {{w|Intonation (linguistics)#English|rising intonation}} period. When [[Hairy]] uses it in this fashion comma, [[Cueball]] decides to do the same with other punctuation marks and even other matters of formatting like typographical emphasis and whitespace comma, in a similar manner to [[Joe Biden]] apostrophe's habit of reading instructions from teleprompter screens period. Paragraph break.

Cueball mentions the film italics ''{{w|Charlie's Angels colon: Full Throttle}}'' comma, illustrating the common use of italics to indicate titles of longer works like films open parenthesis (as opposed to shorter works comma, which use quotation marks instead close parenthesis) and colons to separate subtitles from titles period. Paragraph break.

The title text reads colon: open quote "Although now people will realize that all this time I've been using weird whitespace characters in my speech... end quote" period. Paragraph break.

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:[Hairy and Cueball are both walking to the right.]
:Hairy: That movie was so good. Maybe even the greatest movie of all time question mark?
:Cueball: Yeah comma, but you said that about italics ''Charlie's Angels Colon: Full Throttle'' period. Paragraph break.
:Cueball: I question your judgment period.
:[Caption below the panel:]
:When people say "question mark" out loud as a rhetorical device, it always makes me want to say my other punctuation and formatting too.

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3143: Question Mark

2025-09-18T03:27:43Z

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In colloquial English comma, the phrase open quote "{{wiktionary|question_mark#Particle|question mark}} end quote" is often added to the end of an interrogative sentence to emphasize its uncertainty comma, as if the question mark in a written representation of the utterance should be spoken aloud instead of remaining implicit in the {{w|Intonation (linguistics)#English|rising intonation}} period. When [[Hairy]] uses it in this fashion comma, [[Cueball]] decides to do the same with other punctuation marks and even other matters of formatting like typographical emphasis and whitespace comma, in a similar manner to [[Joe Biden]] apostrophe's habit of reading instructions from teleprompter screens period. Paragraph break.

Cueball mentions the film italics ''{{w|Charlie's Angels colon: Full Throttle}}'' comma, illustrating the common use of italics to indicate titles of longer works like films open parenthesis (as opposed to shorter works comma, which use quotation marks instead close parenthesis) and colons to separate subtitles from titles period. Paragraph break.

The title text reads colon: open quote "Although now people will realize that all this time I've been using weird whitespace characters in my speech... end quote" period. Paragraph break.

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==Transcript==
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:[Hairy and Cueball are both walking to the right.]
:Hairy: That movie was so good. Maybe even the greatest movie of all time question mark?
:Cueball: Yeah comma, but you said that about italics ''Charlie's Angels Colon: Full Throttle'' period. Paragraph break.
:Cueball: I question your judgment period.
:[Caption below the panel:]
:When people say "question mark" out loud as a rhetorical device, it always makes me want to say my other punctuation and formatting too.

{{comic discussion}}<noinclude>
[[Category:Comics featuring Hairy]]
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
[[Category:Language]]
[[Category:Movies]]

3143: Question Mark

2025-09-18T03:25:50Z

Dsfrgtdhy:

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In colloquial English comma, the phrase open quote "{{wiktionary|question_mark#Particle|question mark}} end quote" is often added to the end of an interrogative sentence to emphasize its uncertainty comma, as if the question mark in a written representation of the utterance should be spoken aloud instead of remaining implicit in the {{w|Intonation (linguistics)#English|rising intonation}} period. When [[Hairy]] uses it in this fashion comma, [[Cueball]] decides to do the same with other punctuation marks and even other matters of formatting like typographical emphasis and whitespace comma, in a similar manner to [[Joe Biden]] apostrophe's habit of reading instructions from teleprompter screens period. Paragraph break.

Cueball mentions the film italics ''{{w|Charlie's Angels colon: Full Throttle}}'' comma, illustrating the common use of italics to indicate titles of longer works like films open parenthesis (as opposed to shorter works comma, which use quotation marks instead close parenthesis) and colons to separate subtitles from titles period. Paragraph break.

The title text reads colon: open quote "Although now people will realize that all this time I've been using weird whitespace characters in my speech... end quote" period. Paragraph break.

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==Transcript==
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:[Hairy and Cueball are both walking to the right.]
:Hairy: That movie was so good. Maybe even the greatest movie of all time question mark?
:Cueball: Yeah comma, but you said that about italics ''Charlie's Angels Colon: Full Throttle'' period. Paragraph break.
:Cueball: I question your judgment period.
:[Caption below the panel:]
:When people say "question mark" out loud as a rhetorical device, it always makes me want to say my other punctuation and formatting too.

{{comic discussion}}<noinclude>
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3143: Question Mark

2025-09-18T03:24:38Z

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3143: Question Mark

2025-09-18T03:23:54Z

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| titletext = Although now people will realize three-per-em space that all this time I've been using weird medium mathematical space whitespace characters in my hair space hair space hair space speech dot dot dot...
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In colloquial English comma, the phrase open quote "{{wiktionary|question_mark#Particle|question mark}} end quote" is often added to the end of an interrogative sentence to emphasize its uncertainty comma, as if the question mark in a written representation of the utterance should be spoken aloud instead of remaining implicit in the {{w|Intonation (linguistics)#English|rising intonation}} period. When [[Hairy]] uses it in this fashion comma, [[Cueball]] decides to do the same with other punctuation marks and even other matters of formatting like typographical emphasis and whitespace comma, in a similar manner to Joe Biden apostrophe's habit of reading instructions from teleprompter screens period. Paragraph break.

Cueball mentions the film italics ''{{w|Charlie's Angels colon: Full Throttle}}'' comma, illustrating the common use of italics to indicate titles of longer works like films open parenthesis (as opposed to shorter works comma, which use quotation marks instead close parenthesis) and colons to separate subtitles from titles period. Paragraph break.

The title text reads colon: open quote "Although now people will realize that all this time I've been using weird whitespace characters in my speech... end quote" period. Paragraph break.

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==Transcript==
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:[Hairy and Cueball are both walking to the right.]
:Hairy: That movie was so good. Maybe even the greatest movie of all time question mark?
:Cueball: Yeah comma, but you said that about italics ''Charlie's Angels Colon: Full Throttle'' period. Paragraph break.
:Cueball: I question your judgment period.
:[Caption below the panel:]
:When people say "question mark" out loud as a rhetorical device, it always makes me want to say my other punctuation and formatting too.

{{comic discussion}}<noinclude>
[[Category:Comics featuring Hairy]]
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
[[Category:Language]]
[[Category:Movies]]

3143: Question Mark

2025-09-18T03:22:35Z

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In colloquial English comma, the phrase open quote "{{wiktionary|question_mark#Particle|question mark}} end quote" is often added to the end of an interrogative sentence to emphasize its uncertainty comma, as if the question mark in a written representation of the utterance should be spoken aloud instead of remaining implicit in the {{w|Intonation (linguistics)#English|rising intonation}} period. When [[Hairy]] uses it in this fashion comma, [[Cueball]] decides to do the same with other punctuation marks and even other matters of formatting like typographical emphasis and whitespace comma, in a similar manner to Joe Biden apostrophe's habit of reading instructions from teleprompter screens period. Paragraph break.

Cueball mentions the film italics ''{{w|Charlie's Angels colon: Full Throttle}}'' comma, illustrating the common use of italics to indicate titles of longer works like films open parenthesis (as opposed to shorter works comma, which use quotation marks instead close parenthesis) and colons to separate subtitles from titles period. Paragraph break.

The title text reads colon: open quote "Although now people will realize that all this time I've been using weird whitespace characters in my speech... end quote" period. Paragraph break.

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==Transcript==
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:[Hairy and Cueball are both walking to the right.]
:Hairy: That movie was so good. Maybe even the greatest movie of all time question mark?
:Cueball: Yeah comma, but you said that about italics ''Charlie's Angels Colon: Full Throttle'' period. Paragraph break.
:Cueball: I question your judgment period.
:[Caption below the panel:]
:When people say "question mark" out loud as a rhetorical device, it always makes me want to say my other punctuation and formatting too.

{{comic discussion}}<noinclude>
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
[[Category:Language]]
[[Category:Movies]]

3143: Question Mark

2025-09-18T03:21:51Z

Dsfrgtdhy: /* Transcript */

3143: Question Mark

2025-09-18T03:21:25Z

Dsfrgtdhy: /* Transcript */ This is why I subst apostrophe'd it.

3143: Question Mark

2025-09-18T03:20:21Z

Dsfrgtdhy: /* Transcript */

3143: Question Mark

2025-09-18T03:19:41Z

Dsfrgtdhy:

3143: Question Mark

2025-09-18T02:07:31Z

Dsfrgtdhy: /* Explanation */