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   Hi, Ed!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:   
      
   EV>  When I read Dallas's joke I thought about the phrase:   
   EV>  "Love your kids but belt them in the car."   
      
            Oh... now there's a wonderful example of how confusing some   
   apparently short, simple words in English may be.  Just for starters, are we   
   being told we ought to beat up on our kids or just ensure their seat belts are   
   fastened?  :-Q   
      
      
   EV>  Hmmm, should I had put a period after the ending quote mark?   
      
            AFAIK your punctuation there is correct in American & Canadian   
   English because you were apparently quoting an entire sentence.  Although I   
   may tend to do things a bit differently at times, I am a Canadian with ex-Brit   
   roots.  :-))   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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