> Our elementary school had a talent show every year. The year I was in first grade, my brother was in fifth (the only time we were ever in the same school at the same time), and he was the M.C. He got to introduce his little sister, whereupon I, at all of seven years old or so, got up in front of the whole school and read one of my favorite stories (one of a series about a boy named Pierre, this one having to do with chicken soup with rice, I think) in the style of Victor Borge, i.e., pronouncing all of the punctuation. "(kichkich)I do not want chicken soup with rice!(fisssssPTHUT!)(kichkich)" I still remember how to do most punctuation marks vocally. I tried to do an eighth grade term paper on him, but couldn't find enough resources. Joan Crawford wasn't nearly as interesting.

A slight tangent, but... as much trouble as Internet addresses can be to read out loud, I'm surprised that I haven't heard anyone try to pronounce the punctuation marks in them à la Victor Borge. :)

Though then again, I do have to wonder what an @ would sound like... or a ~...

-- codeman"http(PTHPTH!)(khht)(khht)www(PTH!)rinkworks(PTH!)com"38