Trevor sent me an email with this photo in it,
to which I add, “Please do not use double primes (inch marks) for quotation marks.”
And Kate sent me a pointer to this receipt:
You may think that Kate is not the first person you’d imagine queueing up to buy a Jesuit, but I think that’s part of what makes her so interesting. (The explanation is in the comments.) As a Dominican spirit, I admire her investment but will decline to partake.
Nice, that reminds me of this blog:
http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com/
Heh, I know where that bakery is, out in Hawaii.
Oh, oh, I want to buy a Jesuit!
At least the Jesuit is the next to most expensive!
Sh! I spend a lot of time at the newspaper converting double primes/HTML code into proper inverted commas. (That and wholesale rewriting, changing idiot PR into readable, printable English.) What’re you trying to do, threaten my job?