What in the hell is that!? (Trees And Things)

pO157: Re: Threadjack!

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:51:34 EST

Everybody already says "Who the hell is he!?" anyway, so might as well make it official.

MayorBob: Re: Threadjack!

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:30:10 EST

It's obvious that the answer to getting Ron Paul to become a household word in America is to have him legally change his name to Interobang Paul.

pO157: Threadjack!

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:47:16 EST

I just think its funny that a sub about an obscure proposed punctuation mark will likely generate more comments on here than the one about Ron Paul. I mean, come on, where is the Net Roots, people?

3fingerspointback: Re: OMG‽

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:25:36 EST

We have unicode support--in the comments if not the comment subjects--but it still seems awfully inconvenient to hunt around way up in the 8000s-range for the weird little ⁥ character.

dgraham: Re: OMG‽

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:57:59 EST

No unicode support‽

thefadd: Re: What in the hell is that!?

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:18:21 EST

Does this remind anybody else of the ABBA song "Boomerang?"

It reminds me of just about everything except a legitimate punctuative pursuit.

3fingerspointback: OMG‽

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:23:45 EST

You mean I can only use this symbol by setting post to HTML formatted, then typing out the characters & # 8 2 5 3 ; without spaces‽‽‽

Clearly, what's needed are some new emoticons to present a killer app for this symbol.

keta: Distinction

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 12:04:30 EST

I'd just like to point out that the interrobang (?) should NOT be confused with the interrobong ("Have you been smoking marijuana this evening, sir?)

gerrymander: Re: What in the hell is that!?

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:51:39 EST

The problem with the interrobang is that if it's too small, it just looks like a fat exclamation point. And "too small" includes normal, 12-point text size.

uncarved block: Arguing The Contrary

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:45:14 EST

Laying aside my serious reservations that this era is any more anti-intellectual than any other, this would seem a perfect time to introduce this kind of punctuation. Instead of having to rely on the the contrast between the punctuation and t

skeptic: Re: What in the hell is that!?

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:07:38 EST

Of course, anything can be made to work with a proper marketing campaign. And the new interobang marketing campaign could be just the thing to take our minds off global warming.

Lou: Re: What in the hell is that!?

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:28:58 EST

While I agree with you that we don't need another symbol in an age that has become barely literate, I think this new symbol could work...it just needs a proper image marketing campaign. Look how well something like this work out for Just wondering.

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