On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 07:56:57 -0600, Kevin S. Wilson
wrote:

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:57:39 +0100, Adam Funk
wrote:

On 2006-04-19, Doug Kanter wrote:

Doug should never have told that lie yesterday morning, in front of
four newsgroups.

Which lie was that, Lucy?

You mean there was more than one?

None at all, but I'm always interested in your delusions, assuming you're
able to follow what you said one, four or 24 hours ago.

Aha, BW! Now he's admitted that there were three lies, and told you
where to find them!

And demonstrated in the process that his knowledge of style and style
guides isn't as extensive as he would have the readers of five (not 5)
different newsgroups believe.

To be fair to poor Doug, he actually was using the AP Stylebook for
its intended purpose this time, unlike yesterday. He even got the
basic rules right. He simply made the common mistake of adhering to
one of them too rigidly, thus violating the whole purpose of having
style rules.

BW