A brief PSA from the anal-retentive English teacher who lives in fab's forebrain and the Militant Grammarians of Massachusetts:
APOSTROPHE does not mean "LOOK OUT! Here comes an S!"
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Node, I entreat you!
- NODED! by isogolem: the seminal mid-80s film Footloose
- the contemporary beverage and eponymous luche libre wrestler Orange Crush deserves a better WU
With Klaproth as my envoy
- Bitchcraft by BatBat a circular definition of a slang term relating to the implosion of a female-led witchcraft coven
- service by dmd at the noder’s request
- March 11, 2003 by Eco at the noder’s request
- March 12, 2003 by Eco at the noder’s request
- March 13, 2003 by Eco at the noder’s request
- D'Oh! by Eco at the noder’s request
- Mock Apple Pie by Eco at the noder’s request
- Bedouin coffee by Eco at the noder’s request
- nothing to do by Eco at the noder’s request
- Sleepless in Sumatra by Eco at the noder’s request
- AMT by ginseng incorrect one-liner
- AMT by cgori one-liner replaced by firmlink
- impish by a new noder who was referred to Read Me First: Getting Started on E2
- Moe's Tavern by Reo superseded
- Bossk by id1984 "famous for giving a nasty hiss to Admiral Piett"
- Bossk by a new noder who was referred to E2 Mentoring Sign-Up personal confession leading to baseless rumor "According to a Star Wars calendar I have, Bossk also made an appearance in Return of the Jedi, but I don't remember ever seeing him"
- Precisely bent paperclip by ethanm your radical thoughts on bong maintenance and office supplies have already occurred to others
- April 7, 2003 by mcd at the noder's request
- primary by Cermain "which see" WUs are redundant
- Back to the Future trilogy - more plot holes by randir described three plot holes, two of which were not plot holes and the third was covered in Back to the Future III – oh no, a glaring plot hole!
- Back to the Future trilogy - more plot holes by StopTheViolins did not describe a plot hole but a problem of suspension of disbelief
- Back to the Future trilogy - more plot holes by dbrown I'd trust Doc Brown on the propulsion system of his own DeLorean, but his WU waxes philosophical on the topic of Keanu Reeves as the savior
- Back to the Future trilogy - more plot holes by fondue provided an incorrect correction
- Back to the Future trilogy - more plot holes by Cid Highwind corrected the above
- Back to the Future trilogy - more plot holes by NightShadow described not a plot hole, but an inconsistency on the set, visible for only a few seconds and likely corrected in the new director’s re-envisioned version soon to be available for a limited time only
- namespace pornography! by Shanoyu E2 is not a BBS in which we collect suggestions of juvenile pranks in the form "yeah it would be cool if you did ..."
- Terminate with extreme prejudice by SkipRosebaugh incorrect information, superseded by a later WU
- Single space after a period at the end of a sentence by Any at the noder’s request
- Women who make love like gay men by Any at the noder’s request
- Bible Baptist Church by Any at the noder’s request
- world-as-myth by Any at the noder’s request
- Alberta Über Alles by Any at the noder’s request
- medieval by Big Alba an attempt to parlay the author's extensive gameplay experience of Medieval: Total War into a historical WU without much further research than a listing of 'nations' and 'religions' from the game; this does not represent the kind of scholarship we desire in a factual
- Susan Sarandon by JennyPie superseded by a WU by borgo
- Susan Sarandon by deep thought superseded by a WU by borgo
- Circle of Protection: Artifacts by bitter_engineer at end of your turn I tap two Plains to cast Disenchant
- Kryptonite Condoms by Xamot superseded by a WU with the relevant dialogue from Mallrats and further comicbook geekiness
- PokeMUSH: Pokemon Evolutions by Pteryx reviews of MUDs belong on Mud Connector
- Harvey Wallbanger by Mr. Option this tasty drink was imporved upon by a subsequent WU
- Chaat by bindlenix at the noder's request
- table of liquor specific weights by bonnet superseded by a more comprehensive listing, let the pousse-cafes be served!
- DiPT by amsaarel superseded by a more thorough WU on this research chemical of Alexander Shulgin
- How to read minds in the confessional (and outside it too) by dRiVeN your tech support story has already occured to others
- velodrome by Temporary Man superseded by new WU
- morphine by a first time caller longtime listener violated one of the venial sins of noding, "writeup does not mean reply"; noder assimilated this WU into one on oxymorphone
- blinker fluid by Lordfly noder referred to the perfect node and link and link
- Is undecidability undecidable? by hobyrne at the noder's request
- Everything in the news by v3rgez unsupported allusion to a newspaper mention of E2, Memphis' The Commercial Appeal date unknown
- Atwater, Ohio by nocte superceded by a later WU
- One more example of how men and women are fundamentally different by Spanyrd "Everything2 is not a BBS" and "writeup does not mean reply"
- Dorm room safety tips by kinglink a list that reduced to "how to have the most fun/beer/pot/sex without getting listed by the dorm staff"
- clavinet by owlbreath superseded by a fine WU with ascii art of the action of this electronic keyboard instrument
- Electroconvulsive therapy by spazgirl a short observational piece that seemed misplaced in this node
- muzzle by wanderer it's the rifling of the barrel of the gun that imparts spin to the bullet, not the muzzle
- Uberman's Sleep Schedule by alex2468 questions regarding writeups should be msgd to the authors of those writeups, not noded
- SCAD by a fled noder a short enumeration on the computer systems available there for the Computer Art program a few years ago
- A Bug's Life by a fled noder superseded
- subdivision surfaces by a fled noder superseded
- ganja by mcd at the noder's request
- The monk and his cat by TrbleClef the unattributed text of W.H. Auden's songful translation of the medieval Irish poem Pangur Ban
- The monk and his cat by geeklizzard the unattributed text of Robin Flowers' translation of the medieval Irish poem Pangur Ban
- Gottried Michael Koenig by Zot at the noder's request
- T-shirt launcher by TMPman cut & pasted specification for a tool/toy do not make a good writeup; a friendlier audience for the advertising copy you've written might be the company that sells these pneumatic launchers itself
- Robeasts by jkd6019 these 'robot-beasts' are explained in context in the node Voltron
- Zionism by ruse a WU consisting of misleading quotation in a node in which other WUs attempt to define a social movement
- We're an American Band as a part of moving them to Lyrics
- California Girls as a part of moving them to Lyrics
- Bitter Creek as a part of moving them to Lyrics
- New York Minute as a part of moving them to Lyrics
- One of These Nights as a part of moving them to Lyrics
- Already Gone as a part of moving them to Lyrics
- Take It Easy as a part of moving them to Lyrics
- wodka by praxis nodeshell is firmlinked to vodka making this WU redundant
- spaceship room by praxis personal slang
- X Prize by anglopwr contained a factual error, discouraging analysis, and is superseded
- Why engineers and scientists can never earn as much as business executives and sales people by Pyromancer at the noder's request
- June 12, 2001 by nine9 at the noder's request
- Thames Barrier by girlotron superseded
- Vibranium by Zaratustra dum-dum, dum-dum, bahm- bahm- bahm- wah-dum!
- Shoegazer's Bag Of Tricks by Shoegazer an index of the user's mix-tape listings
- Music For Gymnasiums by Shoegazer listing from a mix-tape
- Fluid Mix by Shoegazer listing from a mix-tape
- Avant Twee by Shoegazer "It's a mix-tape, yeah."
- Blurred Edges by Shoegazer a Blur retrospective
- Magnetic Love by Shoegazer a best-of 69 Love Songs
- The Forgettables: Britpop by Shoegazer personal bottom-ten lists are less nodeworthy than top-ten
- The Forgettables: Britpop by IainB response to a deleted WU
- The Forgettables: Britpop by colinramsay response to a deleted WU
- The Forgettables: Shoegazing by Shoegazer another mix-tape
- DECAF BAD bass line by skongshoj your radical thoughts about words that can be spelt with the letters A-G are DEADBEEF
- Go Hibiki, Ken Masters, Gouken, Gotetsu, Sagat, and Gouki by E. Megas no one wants to read a node for every character in the video game
- Hadoken, Shinkuu-Hadoken, Shoryu Reppa, and Saikyo-Ryu by E. Megas my new fighting technique is unstoppable
- treasure by E. Megas superseded by a later WU
- That whole bedroom thing wouldn't have happened if you hadn't tried to explain Quantum Physics by Toaster13 "'writeup' does not mean 'reply'
- Ponderosa by Toaster13 a review of a chain of restuarant based on an experience while drunk, the plural of anecdote is not data
- drinking beer in the shower by Sarcasmo (question) "please, tell me has anyone else ever done this?" starting a GTKY node, malarkey or effective way?
- drinking beer in the shower by moJoe (answer) "Betty Ford"
- drinking beer in the shower by ninar "I once took two, or at the most three, sips"
- drinking beer in the shower by gamache just for the taste of it!
- drinking beer in the shower by BtS a digression to drinking beer in the sauna
- drinking beer in the shower by RimRod followed by drinking beer in the frat-house shower
- drinking beer in the shower by wukong888 finally, to wrap things up, the shower-beer-drinking habits of a former college roommate
- OSPD3 by ravenword at the noder's request
- ether by Hai-Etlik a definition of magical ether in the Ultima realm
- Bard's Tale by Chumley superseded by an enthusiastic WU
- Bard's Tale by JoeC superseded by an enthusiastic WU
- Battlecat by Leon Marconi inaccurate and unnecessary
- You Are the Everything by LordOmar superseded
- 18 electron rule by Born2rule incomprehensible to the layman, superseded
- X-Men 2 by psy devoid of content, no really, it was blank
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