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The distinctive 'UCLA comma' and 'Michigan comma' are a long string of commas at the start and end of the sentence respectively.

https://explainxkcd.com/2995/

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Put them all together to summon Christopher Walken!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I once had a "roommate"* for several months that did a ridiculously good Walken impersonation. Like, good enough that if you recorded it and played it back to back with a real Walken recording, it would be extremely difficult to tell them apart.

The problem was, he would do this constantly. Sometimes going days in end refusing to speak normally. I once overhear him dirty talking to himself while masturbating and using the voice. It was awful.

*Very long, funny-in-the-telling type of story that was genuinely fucking awful

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are you sure your roommate wasn't Christopher Walken?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Oh, God, that would have been so much better. He was truly awful. Like, honestly, just the absolute worst. Tried to get me murdered once, too.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

mac, and, cheese

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Whoever wrote the explanation for this one went ALL OUT. Seriously impressive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

for example, the very idea of a "Brown comma" might more readily resonate with the concept of the Brown note.

Whoever it was, well played.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Time to make a new text expansion: “ “=“, ” This way, every time you hit space, you also get a comma.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yale, I beg you, please turn your "Yale Comma" into a Yale Colon

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

“Yale Colon” seems like something you get first year by eating in Connecticut

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'd never heard of the Cambridge or Princeton commas. Assuming this isn't just a joke and they really exist, they can both go fuck themselves. Also that Cornell, needs to be a semicolon.