New terrorist weapon: punctuation marks

[serinde]

It would seem that the Perils of the Nebulous Foe extend beyond peace slogans in Arabic and are insinuating their way into our own hallowed tongue.

Joe had to meet a colocation customer earlier this week at one of our variably annoying colo facilities so that said customer could perform some maintenance on his machine.

Joe signed in with his name and our company name on the appropriate fields on the sign-in log.

The customer signed in with his name, directly below Joe's entry, and put in ditto marks under the "company" field.

Quoth the reception jockey: "Oh, no, I can't accept a ditto mark there, you have to write it out in full. Terrorists, you know!"

Comments

[scavgraphics.livejournal.com]

Terrorists use ditto marks? Who knew.

[naudia.livejournal.com]

Wha? Some people need to be whacked upside the head with a wet fish.

[sweh.livejournal.com]

ditto

[elibalin.livejournal.com]

DEATH TO AMERICA!
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[sweh.livejournal.com]

as above

[elibalin.livejournal.com]

ibid.

[sweh.livejournal.com]

He's one famous guy; wrote so much stuff! References to his work are all over the net!

[sweh.livejournal.com]

Ah, this is so that when the page is scanned in and your writing subjected to graphology analysis then the company name isn't lost. Paper is so low-tech these days; it's merely a capture device for things a lot more complicated.

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

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It's not working. I must be doing something wrong.