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Jonathan Ross is hilarious. Actually, I am getting ahead of myself. Let me start with a disclaimer: This blog post may not be funny to anyone. Last night Jonathan and I were talking on gchat and I was laughing so hard I had to write about it this morning. But I do understand that a lot of times inside jokes are not funny to anyone else. Just take this as a warning. What were we talking about? Well, we were having a discussion on what the gayest punctuation mark is. It was a tough race, clearly, but we narrowed it down to two: the tilde and the crazy curved brackets. Let’s break this down:
Now, the tilde is almost too obvious, given its ridiculously gay name. But looking past that, observe the feminine curve, the way it floats above the baseline. The tilde is pretty darn gay.
But before giving the tilde the crown (or tiara?), you have to consider the curved brackets. I mean, look how sassy they are! As an example, read this sentence: "I can’t believe you decided on those black shoes {girrrrrrl!}!" The curved brackets just fit so comfortably in that extremely gay exclamation. See? It’s a pretty tough call. For the curious, Jonathan and I were much more confident on the sexuality of other punctuation. As for the straightest, the underscore easily takes the car-fixing, boob-grabbing cake:
Flat; grounded; to the point. The most metrosexual? Why the ampersand, of course (for obvious reasons):
Just look at it ... so confident, yet so confused ... As for the gayest, please help us make a decision. What do you think is the gayest punctuation mark? The tilde, the curved brackets, or something not mentioned (I am looking at you pilcrow)? And, yes, Jonathan and I need to do something better with our time ...
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Good thing Greek letters weren't included =s
§ (Section sign or sixty nine?)
₪ (Again:Shequel sign or sixty nine?
These are my votes.
I learned that there is a punctuation mark called a solidus, so that's kinda cool and VGR.
Yes, For The Gay.
I laughed.
The italicised version of the tilde is the most gay I believe.
~
I don't even think you can see the difference between italic and normal...
Like: "Oh my god, I would soooooo pinch Aerox ass~"
It was first used in the polytonic orthography of Ancient Greek, as a variant of the circumflex accent, representing a rise in pitch followed by a return to standard pitch.
« » Guillemets. Just because of the name.
But the overall winner:
* The Asterisk.
C'mon where does this little black star remind you of?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterism_(typography)
For reals~!
(uh if you don't get the last part an exclamation mark is also sometimes called a "bang" which is also the reason it is now my fave punctuation ever)
3=======D~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
OMG SHOCKING!!!!
The pilcrow is a tranny!
but was it always a girl? ;)
If you ask me, the tilde used to be a - dash but got a sex change and became curvy ~
I dont think that makes it gay, just confused.
If thats the case then the curly brackets are the winners here.
I always thought * was pretty gay though (dammit Takeshi beat me to it). It's a shame that the icon on some keyboard's tab key is not a punctuation mark |<-
It knows it's gay and has no problem flaunting it in an explosive way. It's out and proud, dammit!
When I look at it, I just imagine a bent hand saying something like "Stop it silly!"
Ò‰
Asterisk isn't gay, he's just enthusiastic.
Dan Paladin smiley. Obviously the least gay punctuation.
Also, ~WHAT'S WRONG! WITH ~TILDES!?~
yeah, they're pretty gay.