<![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile! - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile! - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile!]]> NO you do not hyphenate high school..
One should also note the run-on- sentence.@nyphotog:

Dorothy

]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile!]]> Not even the best paragraph I've read this morning. Hey, dipwad, "high school" isn't hyphenated.

nyphotog

]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile!]]> After rereading, I think that may be the worst paragraph I read all week ... and now I've read it twice. Shit.

jakeyoungblood

]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile!]]> @collegecallgirl: I wouldn't hyphenate high school if you paid me 350 an hour (before a noun or not). I guess that's why you charge only 35 ... couldn't resist.

jakeyoungblood

]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile!]]> @econdave:
As we bigots say, you're one of the good ones, then.

Smitros

]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile!]]> @HeyThatsMyBike: The best paragraph I've read all day was the following blurb on the back of a DVD case:

"DDF, the masters of Euro-Erotica, bring you an amazing volume of gorgeous girls that do nasty things to each other. The first installment in a premier series of lesbo action is finally here. If the cast alone doesn't convince you then the action surely will. Deep pussy and anal penetration throughout. You gotta have it!"

This paragraph is awesome, both for promising hot lesbo action and for announcing that a "first installment" of a series is "finally here."

Furious George

]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile!]]> Dark, curly hair? OH NO, the horror!

vwlphb

]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile!]]> That paragraph is astonishingly poorly constructed, grammatically speaking. Also, it is not even the best paragraph I've read in the last 3-4 minutes.

HeyThatsMyBike

]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile!]]> Stephen J. Dubner? More like Stephen J. Lookslikeafuckingloserwhoplayschessandhasdarkcurlyhairandisasuckysucksuckatsports.

Furious George

]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile!]]> It sounds like an attempt at his Very First Short Story! Why does every first time writer think that their geeky past is so unique and interesting? We're all scarred from 8th grade. Get over it.

mintygreen

]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile!]]> @Hez: Ok, now I like your idea better.

valarmorghulis

]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile!]]> He doesn't explain the macroeconomics of being ugly.

famousauthor

]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile!]]> @miss_msry: Whatever gave you the impression it would end at three hours? It's forever, baby. Wintour can be the stewardess.

Where's THAT reality show... Annoying Bitches in Space! We would all watch, wouldn't we?

Hez

]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile!]]> Braces, glasses and dark curly hair? Damn, that sounds familiar... oh, the memories.

demetria23

]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile!]]> "I don't know if it's because I know James and like him so much that I think this is one of the best opening paragraphs I've ever read, or if it's really that good." It's the former, Steve. It's called logrolling.

disslexic

]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile!]]> @Hez:

Let's not leave Anna Wintour out of this three hour space tour.

miss_msry

]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile!]]> @Smitros: Hey, hey! What are you saying about us! That we're all geeks? Oh, yeah. Never mind.

(Although I do pride myself on my writing.)

econdave

]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile!]]> @PimpMyCouch: @collegecallgirl: maybe he just smoked a lot of pot in his formative years.

valarmorghulis

]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile!]]> @Hez: Oh without a doubt. I had planned on putting something on the end there regarding how that would pretty much cover all preferences. But yes, well played.

valarmorghulis

]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile!]]> @collegecallgirl: Dammit! I need to learn how to refresh.

PimpMyCouch

]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile!]]> The guy hyphenated high school. I'm with you, Nolan.

PimpMyCouch

]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile!]]> The worst what was in high school?
I need to know!

DonPardoCalrissian

]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile!]]> @collegecallgirl:

Agreed. But after eight years of editing economists I suffer from the soft bigotry of lowered expectations.

Smitros

]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile!]]> @Dickdogfood: @izzodee544: High school should only be hyphenated when it is an adjective modifying a noun, e.g., high-school student. That will be 35 dollars an hour, thanks.

collegecallgirl

]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile!]]> "Happy sixth graders are all alike; every unhappy sixth grader is unhappy in his own way..."

they live

]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile!]]> In the fall sixth-grade was there but we didn't go to it anymore.

they live

]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile!]]> @Dickdogfood: no. yes.

izzodee544

]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile!]]> prior to sixth grade he was an adonis.

izzodee544

]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile!]]> Is there some kind of cipher or code hidden in this thing that turns it from pedestrian to awesome? And do people normally hyphenate "high school"?

Dickdogfood

]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile!]]> I like this paragraph. It is good. It is in the past tense. It is about a nerd.

Private Hangnail

]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile!]]> I had a 2.8 GPA, and I also say it is pedestrian.

mark duffy

]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile!]]> @Smitros: No mixed metaphors, but the parallelism in the last sentence is fucked up.

collegecallgirl

]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile!]]> @valarmorghulis: By all means, you may substitute as needed, but in general, I'm right, aren't I?

Hez

]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile!]]> @Hez: Swap out Depp for Natalie Portman, and change "shot into space" to "locked in a room that they have to convince Nick Denton to let them out of."

valarmorghulis

]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile!]]> Not bad for an economist. (Which is kind of like author hot.)

At least there aren't any mixed metaphors.

Smitros

]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile!]]> @Hez: All week, all month, whatevs.

Hez

]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile!]]> No, this is the best paragraph I could read all day:

"Good morning, Hez! You will find a nude Johnny Depp staked to a pile of money, booze and drugs right outside your door. This does not need to be returned and we will be sending more as soon as you run out or grow fatigued of any of these flavours. PS: Julia Allison has been shot into space with Courtney Love and Ann Coulter for your televised entertainment. And yes, there is a mute button."

Hez

]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile!]]> Whaddya mean was ugly, nerd?!

lawyergay

]]> <![CDATA[Best Paragraph? More Like Third Quartile!]]> Team Hamilton.

collegecallgirl

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