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Article: Commentary: Pause here, and appreciate the history of punctuation
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- Long Island Business News
- Article date:
- October 2, 2009
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I was traveling last week and missed the deadline for the first
annual National Punctuation Day Baking Contest, in which contestants
were to bake something in the shape of a punctuation mark and send
it to National Punctuation Day headquarters in Pinole, Calif.
Entries were limited to cookies, cakes, pastries, doughnuts and
breads, but the NPD Web site has also been featuring a recipe for
Punctuation Meatloaf, which does not look especially appetizing, in
part because the ingredients include "1 box Stove Top Stuffing, any
flavor."
Well, that and the fact that while you can shape raw meat to
resemble a question mark, it will still look like it has something
to do with the colon.
If you get my ...