DU DANGEROUSLY LOW ON EXCLAMATION POINTS|||

[skids]

While we appreciate that it is silly season, most DU users
do not fully appreciate what it takes to run this site.
We go through millions of characters a second here, and
we have to keep things well stocked up, not to mention
load in new boxes when the tubes start to reach the low mark.
It's all a lot of work.

And there is only so much room to store things, so when
we order new letters we have to take our best guess as
to what the next week's demand is going to be. We did
buy extra exclamation points in anticipation of silly season,
but apparently not enough. We usually do a good job of
it -- we even have plenty of capital Os still.

But as you are all aware, there has been a lot of
volatility in the commodities market, and although we have
pre-negotiated a contract price for our regular deliveries,
we just cannot afford emergency supplies at current market
prices. Blame the hedge funds.

So we'd like to ask DUers to conserve exclamation points.
Either don't use as many, or alternatively, we do have plenty
of the pipe ( | ) character sitting on the shelf gathering
dust, because nobody seems to know that exists on their keyboard
or what it's called. It is usually on the same key as your
backslash... umm... which is the one that goes from top left
to .... oh nevermind.

We'd advise against using the number 1 as a substitute
because it makes you look like a spazz. Unless that's
your intent, of course.

Anyway we really do appreciate your help on this, and if
things get really bad, we'll try to restrict exclamation
points to doners to stretch things out a bit. One
of the benefits of membership (hint hint).

Sincerely -- not really the DU Admins

(I was going to save this post for April Fools Day, but
apparently it cannot come soon enough.)

[trof]

1. I would be willing to donate my excess !s.

Where can we send them?

[skids]

4. unfortunately we can't use the kind you get at the corner store...

DU uses special !s

[End Of The Road]

2. OMG are u series??1111111

[lost-in-nj]

3. BWAAAAAHAAAA AHHHHHAAAA

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I OWN THEM ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



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