<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
Or we may just be working off some Bad Comma, as we used to say in
Boston...<br>
<br>
On 11/13/10 3:35 PM, E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4CDF049B.5090707@pigs.ag" type="cite">
<meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
http-equiv="Content-Type">
<title></title>
<br>
Actually there is some evidence that Comma Indexes may be a
sensitive
early warning of<br>
impending economic decline and doom.<br>
<br>
Economist Robert J. Samuelson presciently observed a drop in comma
indexes way back in July 2007.<br>
<br>
Samuelson warned us all, "<i>...the comma's sad fate is, I think,
a
metaphor for something larger...</i>"<br>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.newsweek.com/2007/07/22/the-sad-fate-of-the-comma.html">http://www.newsweek.com/2007/07/22/the-sad-fate-of-the-comma.html</a><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On 11/13/2010 10:19 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4CDE9E84.1040207@illinois.edu" type="cite">The
recession
has produced a shortage of commas, among other things. <br>
<br>
<br>
On 11/13/10 8:03 AM, E. Wayne Johnson wrote: <br>
<blockquote type="cite">On 11/13/2010 9:58 PM, C. G. Estabrook
wrote: <br>
<blockquote type="cite">Perhaps here too soon. <br>
</blockquote>
Could hardly be too soon. It's pert near too late already. <br>
</blockquote>
<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
</blockquote>
</body>
</html>