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customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)
9. Agreed
Sat Jun 27, 2020, 01:03 PM
Jun 2020

Posts look like ransom notes from those old TV series where someone would cut letters out of a magazine and glue them to a sheet of paper.

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)
5. It's often used in a title to indicate that the title is a tease and not serious...
Sat Jun 27, 2020, 12:22 PM
Jun 2020

Like titling a video of a kitten playfully attacking a person with the title:

ViCiOuS PrEdItOr AtTaCkS HeLpLeSs HuMaN

TlalocW

(15,358 posts)
14. It was a show
Sat Jun 27, 2020, 02:30 PM
Jun 2020

First on Comedy Central then Sci-Fi in the late 80s/all of the 90s, and then brought back onto Netflix through crowd-sourcing for a couple of seasons. Basically, the premise is that some mad scientists are trying to find the worst movie in the world in order to take over the world, and the first guy they shot up into a satellite built him some robots to help him (and subsequent test subjects) keep his sanity by making fun of the movies.

Torgo is from one of their more infamous episodes where they watched a movie called, "Manos: The Hands of Fate," which I could write an essay on but won't.

TlalocW

Brother Buzz

(36,212 posts)
8. I have seen random capitalization used to reduce piracy or outright theft
Sat Jun 27, 2020, 12:27 PM
Jun 2020

of someone's property. Not at all as excessive as your example, but enough uppercase letters to make it unattractive for someone to borrow as their own work

UTUSN

(70,494 posts)
11. It's been years since I've been gigged for *random* caps, am not taking it personally!1
Sat Jun 27, 2020, 02:19 PM
Jun 2020

I capitalize surnames. In the Navy surnames were capitalized in memos, transfer orders, and such - helps for standing out in the mass of typed material and keeping track of who is the subject of the mass of typed material. A bit of nostalgia about the Navy. Nostalgia is better than being back in the day.

But in the body of posts, I use it for EMPHASIS, since I'm usually in a hurry and don't know the shortcuts and don't want to use the buttons.

The O.P.'s example is specific about caps in scattered letters of words, so doesn't apply to me, haha!1






tavernier

(12,322 posts)
13. When I write a post using the microphone,
Sat Jun 27, 2020, 02:27 PM
Jun 2020

from time to time it will inexplicably use capital letters here and there. I like to read over my writing before I post it but I know not everyone does that.

LizBeth

(9,946 posts)
16. My very worse habit sending a text without reading it first. Mostly I can edit. A text I cannot.
Sat Jun 27, 2020, 02:31 PM
Jun 2020

And a lot of time i am not wearing glasses so can't see it anyway. Siri has it, I send and then later re read it and think wtf? LOL. Bad bad. I need to get in that habit of editing.

Wounded Bear

(58,436 posts)
15. I keep thinking it is some bizarre way to get past spam filters...
Sat Jun 27, 2020, 02:30 PM
Jun 2020

like some of the weird fonts, and staccato spacing you see in them.

Any post/email/twit that utilizes that kind of shit I tend to avoid.

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