Monday, November 15, 2004

Inane Trivia spewed by The West Wing.

There is only one fruit that bears its seeds on the outside. Strawberries.
There are 3 words and 3 words only that start with the letters DW. Dwindle, Dwell, Dwarf.
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5 comments:

  1. Anonymous2:42 PM

    I was skeptical so I busted out my webster's... but sure enough you (and west wing) are correct! :)

    -Tina

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  2. Chas3:14 PM

    You doubt President Bartlett? The man wouldn't lie!
    Can you name the 14 punctuation marks (also from that same episode)?

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  3. Anonymous8:39 AM

    Don't think I've seen that episode, but I'll try anyways. Hey I teach english!! And I did read that book about punctuation, remember! ;)

    1. period
    2. comma
    3. quotation marks
    4. semi colon
    5. colon
    6. apostraphe
    7. exclamation mark
    8. question mark
    9. forward slash
    10. back slash
    11. dash
    12. elipses
    13. start parenthesis/ brackets
    14. end parenthesis/ brackets

    ?? Maybe?

    -Tina

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  4. Chas12:04 PM

    1. Period.
    2. Comma,
    3. Question Mark?
    4. Exclamation Mark!
    5. Colon:
    6. Semicolon;
    7. Apostrophe'
    8. Quotation Marks"
    9. Ellipses...
    10. Parentheses()
    11. Brackets[]
    12. Braces{}
    13. Dash -
    14. Hyphen --
    15. Slash /

    I don't know how I came up with 15. Backslash \ and Pipes| are computer thingies, not really punctuation.

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  5. Anonymous7:59 AM

    Damn the hyphens, brackets, and braces... I was so close. lol

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