Clarence Clemons - RIP

Jeffreybowman2k,
I read your post about 3 minutes ago, and I am still belly laughing. (for real) Dewsh...I wish I had thought of that!

Lindisfarne has shown on a least two ocassions this week that he is a douche. What a treat he must be to know or work with. NOT!

RIP Clarence, you will be well remembered for giving it your all every time you played.

The punctuation inside the quotations mark rule is shifting. Grammarians are in protest, but popular usage is clearly moving to outside the marks. Further proof that it's still a living language.

According to Mr. Springsteen he was playing at a club on the Jersey during a strong thunderstorm. At some point the lights went off and the wind blew the doors to the club wide open. Another flash of lightning, the lights come back on and standing in the doorway was the Big Man. He later was invited on to the stage and both agreed, it was like magic.

Mr. Bowman-I cannot seem to find "dewsh" in my dictionary. Can you help me?

Onhwy61, not to derail the thread--which Lindisfarne has already accomplished to a degree with his impromptu grammar lesson--but what evidence is there that the "rule is shifting" with regard to placing punctuation (commas and periods specifically)outside the quotation mark? I'm not trying to be contrary or challenge your assertion, but since I teach this stuff for a living, I am curious about your claim.

More on point, I am very happy to have caught Springsteen on his most recent tour. It was an amazing show, of course, and captured vividly the way I will always remember Clemons, larger than life, rocking out all the way to the end.