The Song Fight Bulletin Board

WesDavis wrote:

Spud wrote:Is that kind of like Murphy's Law?

SPUD

It's "Murphys Law".

Also to the above: The period is only within the quotation marks if you are finishing a sentence within the quotation marks. As in, "Joe went to the store."

At least, I'm pretty sure of that. I might be wrong.

Any time you end a sentence with something in quotation marks, the punctuation goes inside.
examples:

- The dog woofed in a distinctly raspy fashion that made one inexplicably want to listen to "Blue River."

- Have you submitted your entry for "The Sugar Shaker?"


It really is a strange rule... Like mentioned above, it's not true worldwide. It is the Associated Press standard, and your teachers may yell at you if you punctuate outside of the marks.

Oh, also... This rule applies to commas.
Example:
He heard that she "wanted out," but he was too attached to her to acknowledge it.

Communication sucks. I say we outlaw it.

Please stop.

I think you are killing Leaf.

Dan-O from Five-O wrote:Please stop.

I think you are killing Leaf.

They'll have to go through me first, the man's a saint.

i.p. wrote:Communication sucks. I say we outlaw it.

J student, heal thyself.

well, my collaborator hasn't returned any email or pm in days, so i don't know what's happening, and this song may not, then, exist.
-bill

i.p. wrote:Any time you end a sentence with something in quotation marks, the punctuation goes inside.
examples:

- The dog woofed in a distinctly raspy fashion that made one inexplicably want to listen to "Blue River."

I was a tech writer for ten years, and that rule pissed me off for all that time. It introduces ambiguity, the bane of the tech writer and, I would think, the journalist.

I refuse to follow that rule; I don't care who the fuck yells at me, "beyotch".

JB

jb wrote:

i.p. wrote:Any time you end a sentence with something in quotation marks, the punctuation goes inside.
examples:

- The dog woofed in a distinctly raspy fashion that made one inexplicably want to listen to "Blue River."

I was a tech writer for ten years, and that rule pissed me off for all that time. It introduces ambiguity, the bane of the tech writer and, I would think, the journalist.

I refuse to follow that rule; I don't care who the fuck yells at me, "beyotch".

JB

I only wish I had the willpower... It's been seared into my brain as a result of 4 years of studying journalism. Sometimes I'll slip up, but I won't do it intentionally. But I agree. It pisses me off and introduces WAYYYYY too much ambiguity.

Dan-O from Five-O wrote:Please stop.

I think you are killing Leaf.

At the risk of repeating myself; please stop.

Although spelling is Leaf's real handicap, I'm sure punctuation doesn't lag far behind. Thank goodness the latest version of Firefox shows your spelling mistakes by underlining them like Word does, maybe he'll take advantage of that.

But I digress......please stop.

So I am totally in for this one. I have no dance song, but I enjoy what I've done.

i.p. wrote:....4 years of studying journalism...

Nothing but net. Boo-yah!

but back to the topic...

Can we get a preliminary 4-on-the-Floor count?
Whose bass drums will we be bobbing our heads to this week?

i.p. wrote:but back to the topic...

Can we get a preliminary 4-on-the-Floor count?
Whose bass drums will we be bobbing our heads to this week?

No 4-on-the-floor here. More like "Bump bump bump. Bump bump ba bump bump".

As for the periods inside or outside, I'm with JB. That rule is stupid, it's derived from what made things easiest for mechanical typesetting, and has no place in modern electronic text.

I'm officially in. Here's what I got.

1. MiniMoog
2. Digital Drums
3. Talk Box
4. Speak and Spell
5. Digital Piano
6. Samples from a couple of your favorite 80s tunes
7. Original-ality thrown in

So unless someone has 8 bullet points to their song... looks like I got this one in the bag.

i have this stupid idea for a song which i've been unable to muster up the energy to work on. the world is probably better off without it anyway.

I'm in.



Steve

i.p. has officially submitted their first songfight song OF ALL TIME



I sent 2 emails, because in the first, I forgot to rename the mp3...

oooooops.

I guess we couldn't get it together this week. Too bad, because I liked that optional challenge. Maybe next time!
-bill

i.p. wrote: - Have you submitted your entry for "The Sugar Shaker?"

Yes.

Heads will bob.

halen99 wrote:So unless someone has 8 bullet points to their song... looks like I got this one in the bag.

1. kids.

I win.

This was seriously fun. I've never focused on danceability over all else before. I thought I had it Monday night, but the wife declared it boring. Tuesday turned it all up a notch. We'll see how it goes over.

I channeled my inner-Marky-Mark and officially submitted my version of "The Sugar Shaker". (I'm so ashamed.)

I was getting dangerously close to submitting my first song in almost a year, so my brain went whack (although the MRI looked pretty good). Holy Fuck those MRI machines are NOISY!!! Although you can always find a rythym in the noise and just pretend it's a really boring, loud song. Anyway -- no Sugar from Stubby. And that is a shame, as it was a gloriously funky fusion of late Motown and early Zepplin.

GlennCase wrote:I do believe I am in, and I do believe I mean business.

(We'll see if that's a true statement in about a week or so.)

ROCK!

Glenn Case

Evidentally, "I mean business" means "I am going to work on the Half Racks CD this week instead."

This one never got past the idea stage for me. It sounded great in my head, 'though.

The GOOD news is that the Half Racks CD is coming along very nicely. I think it will finally be done this year.

ROCK!

Glenn Case