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P------n. Was B----e until he was five.

"AAAARGH!"

She offers Milo some candied punctuation marks. The banquet is a lot of edible puns.

I don't recall specifically who or where, but there's a scene in The Phantom Tollbooth - separate from the half-baked ideas banquet, I'm pretty sure - involving edible punctuation. I seem to remember sugar-coated apostrophes being involved.

So, my housemate's getting his name changed by deed poll (long and complicated story behind that one, which boils down to Bureaucracy is Demented). He's currently taking suggestions for a new one. I think he's fairly set on having something damned stupid, and wants to keep the first name Ziekk (pronounced zeek). Anyone got suggestions for a hilariously ridiculous surname to fit?

These are already notable enough to have caused flamewars and to attract the attention of TVTropes. Basically, they're already famous, but since the PPC is so community-oriented, I thought I'd run them by The Board before calling Legendary on my own.

Wasn't us. Our agents have a bag of punctuation and a hammer, so fics that seriously cry out for it, but they've never eaten it.

Generally I think it's just a matter of aesthetics. Split hyphens, however, annoy the hell out of me, because you end up doing a double-take to figure out what was actually meant. :(

(Of course, when text displays put a hyphen showing an interruption - like yours, Pads - on the next line anyway without acknowledging it as attached to the word, the whole thing ends up pointless and leaves me grumbling at the text displays themselves.)

Did we never make a wiki page for it?

I haven't seen it in any missions other than my own Bad Slash mission (check out the wiki pages of Dana Trent and/or Tarian Toran for details).

But someone else may have used it before and I just don't know about it.

I didn't feel compelled to read the entire thing.

And yes, you were a bit confusing, but I see what you mean now. I suppose then the question is, what constitutes "famous"? Legendary Badfics started to be listed because (most) everyone in the PPC knew them, and there's no practical way for every fanfic writer in every fandom to know all the Legendary Badfics that exist. Hmm. I'm not sure now.

What do commas taste like? Because I've been proofreading something and if the commas were eaten, it would explain a lot.

If I had the links, I'd add a few more to this list.

Oh, were you just trying to work out what it'd be? Yeah, that one used to drive me mad. They used to advertise that film on beer mats, and I'm an argumentative drunk at the best of times. Cue many arguments with whichever unfortunately soul happened to be with me about the perils of picking letters because they look pretty.

If he ignored it sufficiently, and he strikes me as the type to not notice the passage of time under normal circumstances, he may not have aged at a normal rate.

To whom does it belong?

Because... Yes. I have the wish to use it, and must give proper credit.

So, I was looking through the PPC wiki when I noticed something weird on Makes-Things' profile page: It says he was born in 1954. TOS was first published in 2001. In his first appearance in TOS, as well as non-TOS missions I've seen, he has been described as a 'young man'. If he was born in '54, He would have been in his late forties to early fifties in these missions, and that's not exactly young. Am I missing something here?

Oh sweet Mew.
. . .
Just... why. (Y U DO THIS, INTERNETS?!?11one!?)
I don't think I'm going to be able to un-read those. Curse my curiosity anyway.

Very true, but then one has to wonder why they bother hanging on to children and assimilating them. Be easier (and more sensible, in terms of maintaining populations to assimilate) to leave the kids and just take the adults. Presumably they're interested in making up the numbers of drones, and I'd guess they could probably just as easily grow a foetus as grow a toddler up to a suitable age.

Agreed, but as m-dashes are hard to get when typing, and double hyphens are often split when at the end of the line, I'm happy with hyphens instead. So long as they're done right, with none of this business of having a hyphen tacked onto the end of a word. Unless it's showing an interru-

All of these fics are famously bad, like C*l*br**n. I didn't actively go out to look for them, I knew what they were because they're famous, it was links I was looking for. I don't think I phrased it right, so, sorry if I was confusing.

And that thing about the "banned?" That wasn't the original author, he was reposting it. The original author meant it in complete seriousness.

It is granted. {= )

To add to Pads' advice about punctuation, I advise you to choose your adjectives a little more carefully. Take the following:

1) a veritable mass of brown curls

2) a massive cat lover

"Veritable" is one of those words, like "literally," that have been wrongly co-opted as expressions of emphasis. If you want to say that Meip has big hair, "mass" by itself serves the purpose. If you need to emphasize the mass, choose a word that truly describes it, like "springy" or something.

As for the second phrase, the word "massive" there makes it sound either like Meip is very overweight or like she loves massive cats. (Clearing up that ambiguity is how a hyphen would come in handy.) I suspect you're embellishing on the cliche "big cat-lover." The trouble is that that phrase, though in common usage, isn't correct. The cliche slides under the radar because it is everywhere. When you change it, though, you draw attention to it and the incorrectness of the phrase jumps out. You could say that Meip is a devout cat-lover, an obsessive cat-lover, an unrepentant cat-lover.... There are many possibilities in which the description is correct.

I hope that all makes sense. Let me know if I can clarify anything for you. Meanwhile, welcome to the PPC. {= )

~Neshomeh