I want to go home. Then he mentally underlined the last sentence three times, rewrote it in huge letters in red ink, and circled it before putting a number of exclamation marks next to it in his mental margin.
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I want to go home. Then he mentally underlined the last sentence three times, rewrote it in huge letters in red ink, and circled it before putting a number of exclamation marks next to it in his mental margin.
Five exclamation marks: the sure sign of an insane mind.
"Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure sign of a diseased mind."
In the family of punctuation, where the full stop is daddy and the comma is mummy, and the semicolon quietly practises the piano with crossed hands, the exclamation mark is the big attention-deficit brother who gets overexcited and breaks things and laughs too loudly.
And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head.
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