lower case letters discovered

Well, well. What do we have here?

911DOC said...

nobody fluids would be better. then there's this...

http://docsontheweb.blogspot.com/search?q=bee+alert

11/26/07 9:00 PM

Ruh-roh.

Since Monkeygirl and I are working together on this and he lower-case lettered Monkeygirl's grammar-nazi thread in a particularly ballsy violation of the challenge, the remedy for this comment will be as follows:

• Comment in this thread or after that comment from 911 which expresses a sincere, overdone-if-possible apology as well as a line or two about how Nurse K is, without exception, the coolest nurse in the whole wide universe and Monkeygirl is the second-coolest nurse
  
• Lower-case comment should be deleted by clicking the garbage can and may be re-posted with capital letters

Failure to comply within a reasonable amount of time will result in dire consequences.

Update: Monkeygirl apparently deleted the comment, and we have the following apology:

911DOC said...

I am a lowdown worthless toad. I grovel at your feet Nurse K. Please forgive me. I can not find the offending comment because I can not remember where I placed it. Please forgive me or Monkey Girl will kill me!
911doc

11/29/07 9:21 AM

I would have to say that I'm highly disappointed that there is no "you're the awesomest, most kick-ass nurse in the entire universe". However, the "worthless toad" and groveling is adequate.

The challenge

Hello there everyone...

I have agreed to come back to blogging in one week if 911doc of MDOD can withstand using his shift key and appropriate punctuation in comment threads correctly for one week. In essence, the man must start every sentence with a capital letter like my son, who is in second grade.

For those of you who don't know, 911 is famous for never capitalizing anything in any comment ever and this continues to irk me and Monkeygirl to no end.

I have no need to immediately come back to blogging, but if 911 cares enough about satisfying my desire for proper punctuation and capitalization, I'll return the favor and satisfy his desire for me to come back to the blogosphere. The original thread with my challenge in it can be found here.

Update: Major blog crush Whitecoat leaves a comment on MonkeyGirl's website with, you guessed it, all lower case letters and text-message punctuation. Since Whitecoat usually starts all sentences with a capital letter, it seems 911doc may have put a spell on Whitecoat, convincing him under hypnosis or something to fear the shift key and, thus, irritate me. I didn't see that one coming.

Update #2: 911Doc starts to decompensate and writes MonkeyGirl a letter using alternating capital and lowercase letters. Will he snap and start commenting that way too or can he hold out for the rest of the week? Terribly-punctuated emails do not count, just blog posts and comments, so he's safe for now. Maybe the poor fella just needed practice hitting the shift key and I'm jumping to conclusions, but I see this as a bad sign.

Update #3: Wednesday is done, and our little trooper is doing well. Here is a comment that brought a tear to my eye:

Then we must agree to disagree. To me the liberal position on almost everything of import today is informed by emotion, not reason. To me the liberal is concerned with perception and feelings and not results. To me you fit right into my pigeonhole of 'trustafarian' folks who harbor a lot of guilt at being born with a silver spoon, or at least a stainless-steel spoon, in their mouths (and therefore feel the need to even the playing field by having 'the government' impose fairness from above). Too bad it makes things worse. Again, best of luck.

We could have had an "and, therefore, feel the need...", and there also seems to be superfluous scare-quotes around "the government" (although, on second thought, they're not really that superfluous if you're talking about Democrats being in charge). However, the overall comment structure demonstrates a commitment to the challenge. Ten bonus points are awarded in this case for mentioning liberal guilt and emotional reasoning as catalysts for liberal decision-making. It always bears mentioning.

This miraculous typographical transformation is on the level of a 90-year-old comatose brain-bleed patient extubating himself and saying "eh, I'm fine, can I go home now?" or my ex-husband seeking and maintaining employment.

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