SR-71

Have they gotten the Intrepid unstuck yet?

I was an early visitor many years ago, before they added
most of the planes and support ships. It should look ship
shape when they get done with the refurb in two years.



"Kingfish" wrote in message
ups.com...
|
| Jim Macklin wrote:
| If you are in Kansas at Hutchinson KHUT, the Kansas
| Cosmosphere and Space Center is worth a visit. They
have an
| SR-71 in the lobby and you can touch it and even walk
under
| it.
|
| Ditto the Intrepid Air & Space Museum in Manhattan. The
Blackbird is
| spotted right on the flight deck. There's also one at the
Pima Air
| Museum in AZ. Great acft collection there.
|

Alan Gerber wrote:
Bob Moore wrote:
Ron Natalie wrote
When the Smithsonian had there's in it's own temporary hangar it
looked small.

RON!! I don't believe it! "their's".....:-)

I hate spelling flames, but I guess I can handle an apostrophe flame.

It's "theirs" and "its", as in "had theirs in its own temporary hangar".

Had "its" in "its" hangar.

The Smithsonian is considered a singular entity.

I spent too many years with Strunk & White's "Elements of Style".

*sigh*

In article ,
Blanche wrote:

The Smithsonian is considered a singular entity.

Unless you're British :-)

Then you would know that periods always go inside quotation marks. :-)

Blanche wrote:


I spent too many years with Strunk & White's "Elements of Style".

*sigh*

Blanche wrote:
Alan Gerber wrote:
Bob Moore wrote:
Ron Natalie wrote
When the Smithsonian had there's in it's own temporary hangar it
looked small.
RON!! I don't believe it! "their's".....:-)
I hate spelling flames, but I guess I can handle an apostrophe flame.

It's "theirs" and "its", as in "had theirs in its own temporary hangar".

Had "its" in "its" hangar.

The Smithsonian is considered a singular entity.

Yes, I should have known better about the apostrophe use, I concede.

The Smithsonian here was used as a collective noun for the people
working there. "Theirs" would have been appropriate.

And yes, I do know when anal retentive has a hyphen.

"Blanche" wrote in message
...

I spent too many years with Strunk & White's "Elements of Style".

Not possible.


-c

Trivia: This is why periods always go inside the quotation marks (helps me
remember): In the old days of mechanical printing presses and manual
typesetting, the letter pieces looked similar to the strikers on old
typewriters; rectangular pieces of metal. A period piece [.] was only half
as wide as a double-quote [' '] and if it was at the end of a line, which is
common at the end of quotes or paragraphs, the half-width, full-heighth
period piece could lean just a little and eventually wiggle lose. As the
inking/printing mechanism moved over the wayward period, the piece could
snap off and monkey up the works.

To compensate for this, printing press operators and typesetters ignored the
editors made a command decision: They started tucking the [.] inside the
square [' '] piece in order to secure it and hold it still. According to
an old typesetter at the Oregon State printing press, that's why the period
goes inside the quote as such: [.][' '] (end of line)

-c

"RomeoMike" wrote in message
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Then you would know that periods always go inside quotation marks. :-)


I spent too many years with Strunk & White's "Elements of Style".

*sigh*

As the inking/printing mechanism
moved over the wayward period, the piece could
snap off and monkey up the works.

.... except that the last piece of type is also held in place by
something. We had a discussion here some time ago about this very
thing, and I think the conclusion was that this was an OWT.

Jose
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gatt writes:

Trivia: This is why periods always go inside the quotation marks (helps me
remember): In the old days of mechanical printing presses and manual
typesetting, the letter pieces looked similar to the strikers on old
typewriters; rectangular pieces of metal. A period piece [.] was only half
as wide as a double-quote [' '] and if it was at the end of a line, which is
common at the end of quotes or paragraphs, the half-width, full-heighth
period piece could lean just a little and eventually wiggle lose. As the
inking/printing mechanism moved over the wayward period, the piece could
snap off and monkey up the works.

To compensate for this, printing press operators and typesetters ignored the
editors made a command decision: They started tucking the [.] inside the
square [' '] piece in order to secure it and hold it still. According to
an old typesetter at the Oregon State printing press, that's why the period
goes inside the quote as such: [.][' '] (end of line)

Urban legend. This would not explain why the period goes outside
quotation marks in British typography.

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"Jose" wrote in message
t...
As the inking/printing mechanism
moved over the wayward period, the piece could snap off and monkey up the
works.

... except that the last piece of type is also held in place by something.

Not always. The printer that demonstrated this was setting type on an
actual printing press when he showed me, so I saw it first-hand. FWIW, the
printing press was at 15th and Washington in Corvallis, OR., in the spring
of 1991.

-c