Rebert’s Law of Internet Conversations:

Grammar quality and number of capitalized letters are inversely correlated in internet messages.

Not to be outdone, my friend quickly retorted with the more humorous:

Silver’s Corollary:

As the percentage of capital letters in a message approaches 1, the probability of the message making any f*cking sense whatsoever approaches 0.

I like his formulation better. ;)

• Grab the nearest book.
• Open it to page 56.
• Find the fifth sentence.
• Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.
• Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

Here’s my fairly boring quote from Robert’s Rules of Order Newly Revised – In Brief (which beat out The Definitive ANTLR Reference by mere inches):

If the bylaws are silent on the method of appointing members of special committees, the method is typically set for that committee in the motion creating the committee.

Parliamentary procedure may be dry, but it is truly essential to running good meetings. I got this book just a few weeks ago using overnight shipping to prepare for the first Associated Students Council meeting I attended.

Let’s just hope I never have to move to Object to the Consideration of a Question.

P.S. The naming of the Previous Question motion is just plain confusing, history be damned. Thank goodness we just use “Call the Question” instead.