The best way to ensure early retirement is to schedule it up front. I scheduled mine from 1971 to 1981, so now, if I stroke out at 61, I’ll have still enjoyed 10 years of doing what I damn well pleased with no responsibilities other than to feed myself and stay out of jail. And if that’s not retirement, I do not know what is.
- spell ‘theatre’ with an ‘-re,’ which won’ be all that hard to do because most of our pretentious pricks are spelling it that way anyway;
That’s almost as bad as pronouncing it thee-AY-tur.
I should interject that I want to be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle at retirement. Living in a cardboard box and dining at the Sally Ann’s is not my idea of the ideal retirement. 
djm
There’s a movement in contemporary scholarly writing
to omit what isn’t needed to clarify. So
one used to write ‘e.g.,…’ Well the comma is now
gone 'e.g…; is enough.
Similarly footnotes have been much simplified, thank heaven!
Less is done for the sake of tradition. As long
as nobody could possibly get confused, the
added punctuation is sort of dead weight,
at least to some eyes.
Perhaps that’s what’s happend to Mr. and Mrs.
Especially as there seems no solid rational
for the period anyway, or at least no universally
accepted one.
Maybe it shows we’re becoming less traditional,
more streamlined.
My God. I love this world. We’re so full of ourselves we can’t take the time to use a bloody period. OOPS - better omit that last one…sorry D’OH! three more??
I don’t suppose I’m becoming less traditional or more streamlined.
Well, thank goodness. All the more reason to start addressing everyone as “Sir” . . . starting with me.
Three full stops together is a punctuation mark in its own right. It’s called an ellipsis.
Punctuation is nice. Just because something can be got by without doesn’t make it more desirable. Thank God we don’t all write in txt msg lingo.
The answer to this question is, I feel, in your tagline!
I call everyone “Mister” or “Lady,” depending on their sex.
…that’s beggin’ for a one liner…
anybody have one we can use here?
… good, or bad sex?
thanks…
Yes, you’re probably right!
So do I. Well, I include “Sir” and “Ma’am”, too. But it all has to do with the effect I’m trying to achieve.
After all, a well-placed misgendering of the title has its uses. 
(Edited for punctuation. What else?)
Actually, there is one little thing that most of us do “wrong,” including me, and it’s probably because we don’t know how to get it on the keyboard. It’s the humble dash - as used here, twice - for which few of us use the correct sign. We use a hyphen (which is a short line) instead of a dash (a longer one). If someone can tell me how to get a proper dash on the keyboard I promise never to use an incorrect hyphen again and to laugh at all those who do.
[u]A Hyphen Is Not a Dash[/u] suggests using two hyphens: –
Here’s another article from the same site: [u]Quotation Marks: Where Do the Commas and Periods Go–and Why?[/u]
I used to do this all the time: [ – ], but got tired. I suppose there’s a proper dash to be got on some character maps, but I don’t think I’ll bother. Progress, Steve. 
Aha. I see that Slude is on the ball, as am I.
That was fun.