Make use of the caps lock key


‘WELL THEN,’ HE SAID, TURNING OFF THE LIGHT, ‘SWEET DREAMS, LITTLE ONE.’
‘NIGHT NIGHT, DADDY,’ AMY MURMURED, ALREADY FALLING ASLEEP. HE PULLED THE DOOR HALF-CLOSED AND THEN STOOD FOR A MOMENT IN THE DIM LIGHT, JUST LISTENING TO HER BREATHE. EVERY DAY IS A GIFT, HE THOUGHT. EVERY DAY AND EVERY SILENT MOMENT OF THE NIGHTTIME. THEN, STEPPING LIGHTLY ACROSS THE HALLWAY, HE WENT TO HIS BED AND SLEPT THE SLEEP OF A HAPPY MAN.

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  1. I was delighted when I saw the heading "caps lock key". Finally, a write-badly-well cliche! Time to use the condescending tone on Mr. Stickley ...

    But you had to make even this look good, didn't you? I couldn't stop myself from chuckling :)

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  2. My favourite caps-lock moment comes from a bad, but amusing piece of Harry Potter fanfiction, where in the middle of a perfectly normal conversations on the train, suddenly Harry says, "OH MY GOD HOGWARTS, WE'RE HERE," and then Hermione says, "We should get changed," and then the chapter ends.

    Maybe it's better in context...

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  3. Billy Mays! I've missed you! :P

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  4. WHAT'S THE PROBLEM? I DON'T UNDERSTAND?

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  5. I couldn't read the story. I was squinting too hard to protect my eardrums.

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  6. I am dying to know what happened to Mr Wolfowitz!

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  7. Maybe this is DEATH telling a bedtime story. :)

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  8. We could make shirts:

    EVERY DAY IS A GIFT

    Perhaps with a picture of someone pointing at you menacingly, just to make sure you understand. Maybe even, on the back:

    AND EVERY SILENT MOMENT OF THE NIGHTTIME.

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  9. I can't help but hear this in the voice of Optimus Prime.

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  10. DEATH HAS THE COURTESY TO USE SMALL CAPS.

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  11. This is how I live my life

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