Rated G

2003: Thirteen are killed in a porch collapse in Chicago

Two questions:

  • If you caught what you thought was a father beating his child, would it make it more or less acceptable if he said,

“It’s okay, it’s not domestic abuse: I’ve never seen this kid before in my life!”?

  • Seriously, I know you’re never supposed to put a punctuation mark outside of quotation marks, but how the hell would you write that previous sentence otherwise? And don’t tell me to rephrase the sentence: the demands of comedy are too stringent for your poor English-majoring mind to comprehend.

Two questions: If you caught what you thought was a father beating his child, would it make it more or less acceptable if he said, “It’s okay, it’s not domestic abuse: I’ve never seen this kid before in my life!”? Seriously, I know you’re never supposed to put a punctuation mark outside of quotation marks,…