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Hardy har har. You're a riot, Editor Crankshaft!

My wife and I have DVDs of the earlier Honeymooners. What a hoot!

I see you have connected my "Tornado" and "Editor Crankshaft" personas.

Once upon a time, I was chief engineer on a Bering Sea crab catching/processing boat. During a moment of indecision as to which of two alarms to respond to first, I spun around about 3 times in a stairwell visible from the galley. That's how I got the name Tornado (and even an unwelcome serenade--1979). In another incarnation, I have done some editing in SF&F writing groups, including minor efforts on two best-selling novels. That's the source of the Editor Crankshaft moniker (I'm kind of a grammar/punctuation/diction/format Nazi; the "Crankshaft" comes from the school-bus driver in the "Funky Winkerbean" comic).

For theological ballistics, I have used "Eugen I, Patriarch of the West," but not yet in any public venues. Different strokes....

Got a laugh at the mental image of you spinning in the stairwell.

I would hate to tell you what my colleagues call me.

Seeing as you are a practitioner of perfect prose and punctuation, perhaps you'd like to prepare for March 4.

Grammar Girl rocks! Somehow or other I got onto her site maybe three months ago. There might have been a thing or two that I would try to tune a bit differently, but not by much. Even so, I have now forgotten what I was thinking back then. As I recall, she nailed perfectly a few things such as lie, lying, lay, lain; lay, laying, laid, laid. I don't remember what she said about split infinitives.