The Power of the Point!

The following is a more or less real conversation where Silky (me) and Bumpy (Scott) examine the awesome power of the exclamation point.

10:10:50 AM Klagon: yo bro
10:10:59 AM Scott Ham: hey bro!
10:11:07 AM Klagon: nice exclamation!
10:11:16 AM Scott Ham: thanks!
10:11:20 AM Klagon: This day is already looking up!
10:11:22 AM Scott Ham: I'm thinking of typing like this all day!
10:11:29 AM Klagon: We all seem so happy!
10:11:31 AM Scott Ham: what do you think?!
10:11:34 AM Klagon: Happy to work!
10:11:37 AM Klagon: Happy to type!
10:11:40 AM Scott Ham: fuck yeah!
10:11:49 AM Klagon: Fuck yeah, is right!
10:12:00 AM Klagon: Might as well keep it up, I'm smiling!
10:12:11 AM Scott Ham: that means it's working!
10:12:17 AM Klagon: There's a person in Texas who does this all the time!
10:12:28 AM Scott Ham: oh yeah?!
10:12:32 AM Klagon: Ask her for an excel report, get a "here you go!"
10:12:33 AM Klagon: !
10:12:52 AM Klagon: Without fail, she is excited to deliver even the most mundane news!
10:12:54 AM Scott Ham: that's disturbing!
10:13:00 AM Klagon: Tell me about it!
10:13:06 AM Klagon: We call her Lisa!
10:13:15 AM Scott Ham: is that her name?!
10:15:43 AM Klagon: Yes!
10:15:53 AM Klagon: But I don't think she yells it all the time like we do!
10:15:57 AM Klagon: LISA!
10:16:06 AM Klagon: HERE'S YOUR TPS REPORT!
10:16:08 AM Scott Ham: I'm smiling so much my face hurts!
10:16:17 AM Klagon: WITH THE NEW COVER SHEET!
10:16:22 AM Klagon: ME TOO!
10:16:30 AM Klagon: NOW I'M GOING TO KEEP CAPS LOCK ON!
10:16:35 AM Scott Ham: why are you shouting, too?!
10:16:42 AM Klagon: I HOPE YOU'RE READY TO COMPREHEND MY EXUBERANCE!
10:16:42 AM Scott Ham: you're starting to hurt my eyes!
10:16:52 AM Klagon: IT REALLY IS SHOCKING!!
10:16:54 AM Scott Ham: oh, I comprehend it!
10:16:58 AM Klagon: Too much even for me!
10:17:06 AM Scott Ham: I'm just so happy that you're so happy!
10:17:09 AM Klagon: WAIT ITS BACK!
10:17:13 AM Klagon: WHEEEEE!!!!
10:17:26 AM Scott Ham: I didn't see that one coming!
10:17:36 AM Klagon: HOW COULD YOU HAVE?!
10:17:42 AM Klagon: IT CAME FROM NOWHERE!
10:17:47 AM Scott Ham: I couldn't!
10:17:52 AM Scott Ham: that's what was so amazing!
10:17:59 AM Klagon: I KNOW!
10:18:04 AM Klagon: FOR ME TOO!
10:18:24 AM Scott Ham: I just had an apple fritter from Starbucks!
10:18:28 AM Klagon: Let's put that away for later!
10:18:31 AM Scott Ham: it was fucking delicious!
10:18:37 AM Klagon: That's great!
10:18:51 AM Scott Ham: the doughy part is a little crunchy like a cruller!
10:18:57 AM Klagon: Sounds like NO ONE has a case of the Mundays!
10:19:10 AM Scott Ham: there's a sweet sweet glaze covering the outside!
10:19:22 AM Scott Ham: and on the inside is fluffy yellow cake with lots of aple goodness!
10:19:23 AM Klagon: Its like a deep-fried muffin!
10:19:28 AM Klagon: Covered in sugar!
10:19:40 AM Scott Ham: my dick is growing just thinking about it!
10:19:47 AM Klagon: WHOA!
10:19:55 AM Scott Ham: i'm starting nutrisystem this week!
10:20:02 AM Scott Ham: so I can't eat the fatboy food anymore!
10:20:08 AM Klagon: BETTER ENJOY YOUR FRITTERS NOW!
10:20:09 AM Scott Ham: this fucking sucks!
10:20:19 AM Scott Ham: i'm going out in style!
10:20:22 AM Klagon: BECAUSE THOSE MOTHERFUCKERS WILL CAP YOUR ASS FOR EATING THAT SHIT!
10:20:34 AM Scott Ham: eating as much shit as I can cram in before that large box of small portioned food shows up!
10:20:36 AM Klagon: THEY'RE ALL EX-MOSSAD!
10:20:45 AM Scott Ham: no shit!
10:20:49 AM Klagon: KILLING SILENTLY!
10:20:50 AM Scott Ham: i did not know that!
10:20:52 AM Klagon: WITHOUT REMORSE!
10:20:57 AM Klagon: IN THE NIGHT!
10:21:08 AM Klagon: THEN GOING TO THE DISCO!
10:21:31 AM Scott Ham: i would rather be killed by a remorseless cutthroat than a whining, overthinking freak!
10:21:43 AM Scott Ham: i would feel bad if they were perennially tortured over my death!
10:21:43 AM Klagon: BECAUSE WHEN YOU LIVE IN A WAR ZONE, YOU STILL HAVE TO BOOGIE!
10:21:54 AM Scott Ham: dance it off!
10:21:56 AM Scott Ham: of course!
10:22:00 AM Klagon: THEY'RE TOTALLY CONDITIONED AGAINST REMORSE!
10:22:23 AM Scott Ham: I saw John Fogerty on the grammy
10:22:26 AM Klagon: AND ON TOP OF THAT HAVE MET SOMEKIND OF PREEXISTTING PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE!
10:22:28 AM Scott Ham: 's last night!
10:22:43 AM Klagon: SO THEY TRULY DO NOT GIVE A FUCK!
10:22:47 AM Scott Ham: he reminded me of your brother John!
10:22:51 AM Scott Ham: i like that about them!
10:22:51 AM Klagon: REALLY!
10:22:57 AM Scott Ham: it was weird!
10:23:02 AM Klagon: JOHN FOGERTY REMINDED YOU OF JON!
10:23:05 AM Klagon: ?
10:23:07 AM Klagon: !
10:23:12 AM Scott Ham: yessssss!
10:23:17 AM Klagon: HMMMM!
10:23:19 AM Scott Ham: more in physical appearance!
10:23:27 AM Klagon: Yeah, I can see that I guess!
10:23:34 AM Klagon: The hair!
10:23:40 AM Klagon: The squinting!
10:23:44 AM Scott Ham: oh the hair!
10:23:52 AM Scott Ham: the squinty eyes!
10:23:57 AM Scott Ham: the rockability!
10:24:02 AM Klagon: John Fogerty has some classic American folk-hair!
10:24:25 AM Klagon: You can imagine that hair on top of a man picking cotton, inventing the steam engine, or heading West!
10:24:42 AM Klagon: Or traveling the countryside with his giant blue ox, Babe!
10:24:52 AM Scott Ham: oh yeah!
10:24:55 AM Scott Ham: i love me some ox!
10:25:02 AM Klagon: Word!
10:25:16 AM Klagon: DJ Ox is going to come out of hibernation this week!
10:25:21 AM Klagon: With new fresh beats!
10:25:58 AM Klagon: <off topic: this should probably go on the blog!>
10:26:08 AM Klagon: <this is good stuff!>
10:26:11 AM Klagon: !
10:26:39 AM Klagon: Have you ever watched "the whitest kids u know" on IFC?!
10:27:27 AM Klagon: Funny!
10:27:37 AM Klagon: Not, "FUNNY!"
10:27:45 AM Klagon: But funny!
10:29:12 AM Scott Ham: i haven't!
10:29:17 AM Scott Ham: should I?!
10:29:21 AM Klagon: Maybe!
10:29:35 AM Klagon: I have a bunch of them on my DVR!
10:29:44 AM Klagon: I'
10:29:49 AM Klagon: ve seen two!
10:29:59 AM Klagon: They were both funny enough!
10:30:05 AM Klagon: With flashes of brilliance!
10:30:47 AM Klagon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkgMbU-we1o
10:30:49 AM Klagon: !
10:30:59 AM Klagon: This is probably as funny as it gest
10:31:03 AM Klagon: gets!
10:31:35 AM Scott Ham: I can't look at that right now!
10:31:40 AM Scott Ham: I have clients in the other room!
10:31:41 AM Klagon: OK!
10:31:45 AM Klagon: You really cant!
10:31:52 AM Klagon: Its kinda naughty!
10:31:58 AM Scott Ham: Oooh!
10:32:01 AM Scott Ham: I better not!
10:32:12 AM Klagon: This is so much fun!
10:32:21 AM Klagon: This exclaiming! Rather than talking!
10:32:31 AM Scott Ham: I've never used the shift key so many times!
10:32:43 AM Klagon: My fucking left pinky is killing me!
10:32:50 AM Scott Ham: I think I might have broken it!
10:33:01 AM Klagon: I mayhave to chop it off with a cleaver so the infection doesn't kill me!
10:33:13 AM Scott Ham: Better do that quick!
10:33:20 AM Klagon: At least I can join the Yakuza!
10:33:26 AM Scott Ham: infections are infectious!
10:33:33 AM Klagon: My lack of pinkie will let them know I
10:33:38 AM Klagon: 'm a man of honor!
10:33:45 AM Klagon: Or something!
10:33:57 AM Scott Ham: I think they do that as punishment!
10:34:01 AM Klagon: Right!
10:34:04 AM Scott Ham: i don't think it's honorable!
10:34:07 AM Klagon: So maybe not!
10:34:10 AM Scott Ham: it's a sign that you fucked up!
10:34:23 AM Klagon: No, I think to accept the punishment like a man is the honorable part!
10:34:28 AM Klagon: No?!
10:34:38 AM Klagon: Once you cut off a pinkie, its all cool!
10:34:47 AM Scott Ham: i think they would prefer that you didn't screw up in the first place!
10:34:54 AM Klagon: Well, yeah!
10:35:04 AM Klagon: But at least there's some kind of system!
10:35:28 AM Scott Ham: you need to have systems in place!
10:35:33 AM Klagon: Better than nothing!
10:35:40 AM Klagon: Just ask New Orleans!
10:35:50 AM Klagon: Huh?!
10:35:54 AM Scott Ham: there's a happy topic!
10:36:56 AM Scott Ham: way to grind a god conversation to a halt!
10:36:59 AM Scott Ham: jackass!
10:37:11 AM Klagon: But I exclaimed it!
10:37:24 AM Scott Ham: that can only carry you so far!
10:37:26 AM Klagon: See all the exclamation points!!
10:37:31 AM Klagon: I seethat now!
10:37:35 AM Scott Ham: whoa!
10:37:43 AM Scott Ham: you just did TWO exclamation points!
10:37:49 AM Scott Ham: I dont know if that's allowed!
10:37:53 AM Klagon: Too late!
10:37:59 AM Klagon: I don't follow rules!
10:38:11 AM Scott Ham: you're dangerous!
10:38:19 AM Klagon: THat's why the ladies dig me!
10:38:31 AM Klagon: They think they can tame this wild beast, but they can't !
10:38:31 AM Scott Ham: you're like the Danny Bonaduchie of chat!
10:39:16 AM Klagon: Danny Bonaduce!?
10:39:24 AM Scott Ham: is that how you spell it?!
10:39:26 AM Klagon: What the hell does that mean!?
10:39:27 AM Scott Ham: he's dangerous!
10:39:31 AM Klagon: Oh!
10:39:32 AM Scott Ham: he's a bad bad man!
10:39:41 AM Klagon: I had now idea! I thought he was just a douche!
10:39:47 AM Klagon: no idea!
10:39:56 AM Scott Ham: oh he is a douche!
10:40:01 AM Scott Ham: but he's also a bad man!
10:40:14 AM Klagon: Are you sure?!
10:40:30 AM Klagon: He looks like an old woman!
10:40:38 AM Klagon: I'm pretty sure he's just a douche!
10:40:49 AM Scott Ham: you could be right!
10:40:53 AM Scott Ham: i think he drinks!
10:48:26 AM Klagon: He drinks semen!
10:48:32 AM Klagon: From men!
10:48:44 AM Scott Ham: i had no idea!
10:49:12 AM Scott Ham: although as I think about it, it makes sense!