Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for November 06, 2009

Beautiful!!! And so deserving!

Deserved it… attacked him at his own intellectual level!

That was good!

Oh, that’s magnificent! Pass the burn cream!

LOVE IT! Hit back where it hurts :)

Impressive. The words Roland spoke in the strip are exactly 139 characters (letters, punctuations, and spaces) – 140 if there is a space at the end of “called”.

“Nuff said!

I wonder if that can work on a large scale with Osama bin limbaugh, sevrin, beck etc…?

I hope this “fenom” goes away

If only we could apply this rule to all the pundit shows…

Alabama_Al said:

Impressive. The words Roland spoke in the strip are exactly 139 characters (letters, punctuations, and spaces) – 140 if there is a space at the end of “called”.

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Good work! You have saved all of the “shut-ins” reading this strip countless hours.

Panel #3:

“YOU’RE O- VER 140 CHARAC- TERS. IN- TERVIEW’S DONE.”

You’d use fewer characters if you skipped the hyphens…

To paraphrase a line from Space Ghost:

“Roland Hedley, your 15 minutes of Lame are up!”

The notion that Charlie Rose would switch to Twitter mode for interviews in particularly ironic.

The idea that you would put a space in between a word and the following ellipses as well as in between the ellipses themselves is… idiotic.

There is NO space between a word and the ellipsis following, nor any space between the periods creating the ellipsis…

Hm, 15 minutes divided by 140 characters comes to 6.43 seconds of fame per character.

@Susan001, I assume it’s fast asleep, if it’s in the same season as I am, which is late autumn. Building up its strength for next spring, you know?

Major BURN!!!

In “Elements of Typographic Style”, Bringhurst writes that a full space between each dot is “another Victorian eccentricity”.