I don't think your little put-downs have any credibility on this forum, auth. People know who you are and what you do. You are just making an exhibition of your own obsessions and weirdness.
---In FairfieldLife@{{emailDomain}}, <authfriend@...> wrote: From five to seven? No, it doesn't take me very long, actually. OK, I've proved to my own satisfaction that you don't have the integrity to acknowledge having been wrong, even about something as trivial as this. Always disappointing, but in your case, I'm afraid, not at all surprising. Feste struggled: << You are so silly, auth. Do you spend your entire life counting? I rest my case on my previous posts on this topic. >> Which have been shown to be wrong. Case closed. ---In FairfieldLife@{{emailDomain}}, <authfriend@...> wrote: Pet Peeve Watch: I. Am. Not. A. Guest. —By Kevin Drum Thu Dec. 19, 2013 11:53 AM GMT "I. Am. Not. A. Guest. A guest is someone I invite into my home and ply with free food and drink. Because, you know, they're my guest. Target doesn't do that. They sell me stuff. I pay for it. (Probably with cash from now on.) I can complain about poor service. I can return stuff I don't like. I can choose what I want to buy and what I don't. That makes me a customer. Not. A. Guest." http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/12/pet-peeve-watch-i-am-not-guest http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/12/pet-peeve-watch-i-am-not-guest As I believe I mentioned earlier, Drum is a widely read and highly respected political blogger. Sorry, Feste, but if he is so insistent about using the period-after-every-word convention for extra emphasis, it has to be considered standard, at least for blogs. You may not like it, and that's fine, but you can't pretend it's some bizarre anomaly (or that I made it up, as Barry claimed).