does excessive overuse of the exclaimation point make you look like a feeb?

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i think so!!

how about you?!?!

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 21 December 2003 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

i realize i am often as guilty of this as anyone, but god this has really been getting to me lately.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 21 December 2003 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, it really bugs the living shit out of me.

dude!!

― Broheems (diamond), Sunday, 21 December 2003 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

how about if it's always exactly two at the end, but never more?

if my english teacher last year liked exclamation points! even for more than one sentence straight! the last would have more emphasis though!!

― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 21 December 2003 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I find myself putting !s on statements is sometimes the only way to indicate that they're sarcastic. Dry, sarcastic wit doesn't really translate to text and can be interpreted as being mean if that ! isn't there.

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 21 December 2003 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Aja (aja), Sunday, 21 December 2003 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread is dedicated to the memory of Old Fart, wherever he may be.

― Patrick Kinghorn, Sunday, 21 December 2003 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

god bless 'im.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 21 December 2003 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I actually kind of like it when Old Fart does it.

But Alex in SF, I love you man, but take it easy!?!?!?!?

― Broheems (diamond), Sunday, 21 December 2003 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

For some reason, the only way I can use an exclamation mark is with a question mark or several attached (cf - WTF?!)

My ex used to write me lengthy emails including exclamation marks at the end of every sentence! Just like this! Towards the end it annoyed me to a quite ridiculous extent!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 21 December 2003 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Exclamation marks must be used appropriately.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 21 December 2003 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

But yes, when Old Fart!!! does it, its actually very amusing.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 21 December 2003 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Well I don't think I've ever seen any of his posts.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 21 December 2003 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Exclamation marks must be! used inappropriately.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 21 December 2003 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Whatever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 21 December 2003 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

The headmaster of my school once sent a letter home to all parents in which he used double exclamation points at the conclusion of two separate paragraphs.

― Andrew (enneff), Sunday, 21 December 2003 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

there's a menu at my favourite Indian eatery that has more exclamation points on it thatn i've ever seen outside the internet. i think every single menu item ends with an exclamation.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Sunday, 21 December 2003 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Jess, you could only be saying this in a moment when Ethan isn't posting. (Uh, I *guess* he's not posting.)

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 21 December 2003 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

haha no it bugged me even more when he did it

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 22 December 2003 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

There! Is! No! Such! Thing! As! Excessive! Overuse! Of! The! Exclamation! Point!

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 22 December 2003 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

yes! yes! it does! but it is the only way to communciate the inherent perkiness of whatever i am typing!
sorry!
sorry!!!!!!

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 22 December 2003 01:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I take this very personally!!!!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 22 December 2003 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

say no to the pop-up

― johnny fitz (johnny fitz), Monday, 22 December 2003 02:03 (twenty-one years ago)

i hate it because this professor does it in her emails. not a bunch after a sentence, but when every sentence ends with one. professors are supposed to be surly recluses.

― youn, Monday, 22 December 2003 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

i have found my calling.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 22 December 2003 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

!M!E!N!T!A!L!I!S!T!S!

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Monday, 22 December 2003 03:08 (twenty-one years ago)

!V!I!A!G!R!A!

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 22 December 2003 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Exclamation points, like salt, sugar, and strong perfume, should only be used in moderation. This rule may be suspended on rare occasion, however.

(And thus ends another chapter in the Gospel According To One Of Dee's HS English Teachers, who would highly disapprove of this parenthetical statement beginning with an "and". So. !!)

― Tenacious Dee (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 22 December 2003 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)

The top definition of "feeb" at urbandictionary.com is side-splittingly hilarious.

― Broheems (diamond), Monday, 22 December 2003 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha oh my god. ow.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 22 December 2003 03:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i mean...uh...dude!!

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 22 December 2003 03:37 (twenty-one years ago)

funny

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 22 December 2003 03:43 (twenty-one years ago)

oh god, i get letters from my dole Case Manager with exclaimation marks at the end of every sentence! Even the really mundane ones! And three at the end of each paragraph!!!

It was also all in Comic Sans, bold. Dick.

― petra jane (petra jane), Monday, 22 December 2003 03:53 (twenty-one years ago)

WTF?!?!?!? EXclaMAtIon points rock!!!!!!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 22 December 2003 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I am very guilty of this, so I shall say a big 'NO'!!!!!!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 22 December 2003 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

it's creeping back into a lot of my posts! i hate it!

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 22 December 2003 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Embrace it steve, you will learn to dwell happily together once again!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 22 December 2003 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

At the end of every sentance is inexcusable. I have a nasty habit of using one at the end of every paragraph. It does my head in, so it must do the readers' as well.
― Johnney B (Johnney B), Monday, 22 December 2003 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=g:thl3243757073d&dq=&hl=no&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=4i6bhn%24191%40ratatosk.uio.no
― man, Monday, 22 December 2003 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Exclamation points are much better than this WRITEING IN CAPPS LIEK THE FULES YUO ARRR nonsense which is really starting to get on my nerves. But then I mean that in the sense that ex-points are just slightly better than yr. basic poke in the eye with a sharp stick.
― suzy (suzy), Monday, 22 December 2003 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

he posted that one on ilm as well. I'm not even going to read the replies to it!!
!!!
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 22 December 2003 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Close the italics!

I'm addicted to the exclamation point! What's worse is I actually do talk like this!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 22 December 2003 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Now I imagine Nickalicious walking around with a great big exclamation point sitting on his left shoulder.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 22 December 2003 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

It's the new black, Ned!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 22 December 2003 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Thus Nickalicious is the hippest and baddest person in the universe!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 22 December 2003 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Of course!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 22 December 2003 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I have just had something I wrote on ILM which would have been much better if I had overused exclamation marks taken apart and exclamation marked by Old Fart!!! so this thread is a timely top of the answer board for me (!)

I hate them. I think I use them either too much or not at all. I will, however, be using the word "feeb" and "assclownery" as much as I can.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 22 December 2003 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Harry fucking Knowles!!

http://www.aintitcool.com !!

EOT!!

― fletrejet, Monday, 22 December 2003 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

"Maybe I don't use my exclamation points as haphazardly as you do."
-Elaine
"I've never heard of a relationship being affected by punctuation."
- Jerry

― jed (jed_e_3), Monday, 22 December 2003 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

clicky clicky

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/cm/member-reviews/-/A3MFH2L2N3US1M/1/ref%3Dcm%5Fcr%5Fauth/002-5678330-9576800

― jed (jed_e_3), Monday, 22 December 2003 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

That review of Party Monster Cracks me up!

its my favourite review now!

― jed (jed_e_3), Monday, 22 December 2003 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Jake: You got a few messages, I wrote them down.
Elaine: Where are they?
Jake: Lets see, they are...here they are.
Elaine: Thank you. Heh, I'll call you back. Ooh, Myra had the baby! Oh, my God that's wonderful! Who called?
Jake: She did.
Elaine: She did? Oh, that's so great!
Jake: Where do you keep the corkscrew?
Elaine: In the drawer on the right. Hmm...
Jake: What?
Elaine: Oh it's nothing.
Jake: What is it?
Elaine: It's nothing.
Jake: Tell me.
Elaine: Well, I was just curious why you didn't use an exclamation point?
Jake: What are you talking about?
Elaine: See, right here you wrote "Myra had the baby", but you didn't use an exclamation point.
Jake: So?
Elaine: So, it's nothing. Forget it, forget it, I just find it curious.
Jake: What's so curious about it?
Elaine: Well, I mean if one of your close friends had a baby and I left you a message about it, I would use an exclamation point.
Jake: Well, maybe I don't use my exclamation points as haphazardly as you do.
Elaine: You don't think that someone having a baby warrants an exclamation point.
Jake: Hey, I just chalked down the message. I didn't know I was required to capture the mood of each caller.
Elaine: I just thought you would be a little more excited about a friend of mine having a baby.
Jake: Ok, I'm excited. I just don't happen to like exclamation points.
Elaine: Well, you know Jake, you should learn to use them. Like the way I'm talking right now, I would put an exclamation points at the end of all these sentences! On this one! And on that one!
Jake: Well, you can put one on this one: I'm leaving!

Jerry: You're out of your mind you know that.
Elaine: What?
Jerry: It's an exclamation point! It's a line with a dot under it.
Elaine: Well, I felt a call for one.
Jerry: A call for one, you know I thought I've heard everything. I've never heard a relationship being affected by a punctuation. (Cags?)
Elaine: I found it very troubling that he didn't use one.

Elaine: You wanted to see me, Mr. Lippman?
Lippman: I was just going over the Jake Jarmel book and I understand you worked with him very closely.
Elaine: Yes, krhm, yes I did.
Lippman: And, anyway I was just reading your final edit, um, there seems to be an inordinate number of exclamation points.
Elaine: Well, I felt that the writing lacked certain emotion and intensity.
Lippman: Oh, "It was damp and chilly afternoon, so I decided to put on my sweatshirt!"
Elaine: Right, well...
Lippman: You put exclamation point after sweatshirt?
Elaine: That's that's correct, I-I felt that the character doesn't like to be ch-ch-chilly...
Lippman: I see, "I pulled the lever on the machine, but the Clark bar didn't come out!" Exclamation point?
Elaine: Well, yeah, you know how frustrating that can be when you keep putting quarters and quarters in to machine and then *prrt* nothing comes out...
Lippman: Get rid of the exclamation points...
Elaine: Ok, ok ok ...
Lippman: I hate exclamation points...

― jed (jed_e_3), Monday, 22 December 2003 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I like using them, so there! I don't care! Take that!

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 22 December 2003 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread has cheered me up a bit!

the exclamation mark - classic or dud?
realizing that every sentence you've been posting recently ends in an exclamation point: c/d!?!
Exclamation! Marks!!! (!): Classic!!!!!!!!! or Dud!!?!??!!?!!!

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 22 December 2003 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

NO WAYE GUYS!!! TEH EXCLAMATON POINT IS TEH BESTEST!!!!111

― TEH ONE AN ONLEY DEANN GULBAREY (deangulberry), Monday, 22 December 2003 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i am fond of exclamation marks that accompany no sentence at all.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 02:40 (twenty-one years ago)

now you're talking.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 02:46 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...

My favorite use of exclamation points on this board is when Slocki does it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I hate that guy!!!

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Whatever happened to the perfume that was shaped like a big exclamation point?

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

exclamation - "make a statement without saying a word." it's still around, i think, at drugstores. my mom would never buy it for me, and it made me so mad.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...

fuck you all!! Goodnight!!

― adam... (nordicskilla), Monday, 22 November 2004 03:54 (twenty years ago)

exclamation - "make a statement without saying a word." it's still around, i think, at drugstores.

I bought it for an ex. She hated it.

― Daffyd, the only gay in the village (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 22 November 2004 04:10 (twenty years ago)

Well that was like the perfume equivalent of giving her a bottle of "DUDE!!!!!!" so yeah, not suprised ;)

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 22 November 2004 04:50 (twenty years ago)

Oh come on, this was in the Hawke/Keating era. I didn't know what perfume was back then, let alone which ones had testicles.

― Daffyd, the only gay in the village (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 22 November 2004 04:57 (twenty years ago)

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 22 November 2004 05:02 (twenty years ago)

Godspeed you! Black emperor.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Monday, 22 November 2004 05:08 (twenty years ago)

God! Speed. You? Black emperor.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 22 November 2004 05:11 (twenty years ago)

You? Never! Did the Kenosha Kid?

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Monday, 22 November 2004 05:17 (twenty years ago)

thirteen years pass...

Oh come on, this was in the Hawke/Keating era. I didn't know what perfume was back then, let alone which ones had testicles.

― Daffyd, the only gay in the village (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, November 21, 2004

The exclamation business was sorted out properly. I revived it for this^^.

― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 19 August 2018 20:59 (seven years ago)

Surely there are better threads to revive than this and the Starbucks wifi one ?!?

― Luna Schlosser, Sunday, 19 August 2018 21:08 (seven years ago)

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