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Hank Rogers[_2_] Hank Rogers[_2_] is offline
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Druce wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 13:33:10 -0700 (PDT), John Kuthe
> > wrote:
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>> On Monday, July 23, 2018 at 2:13:24 PM UTC-5, Gary wrote:
>>> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>>
>>>> You know, your use of ALL CAPS makes me think you're a
>>>> sock puppet for Donald Trump.
>>>
>>> Nah....John's just a nutcase. A friendly one but still a weirdo.
>>>

>>
>> Thank you Gary! YES I AM A WEIRDO!! I embrace that label when after being called a weirdo often I decided to look up the word in Webster's Best, and it said something like "different, not of the norm, ..." but NOTHING NEGATIVE!! And I said to myself, yep, that's me!

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> Did it say anything about capitals?
>


Capitals are OK, if used with dozens of exclamation points.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've never gotten worked up about capital letters. Some early teletype
terminals had only capital letters, but that was way before yoose
youngsters had lower case and decided that CAPITALS = SHOUTING.