Used in a sentence: "Oh those silly tweeters and their use of hashtags that runwordsalltogether to be cutesy in hopes that they'll trend -- and oh the pain they caused to certain fans everywhere (like me) this week when they hashtagged their tweets with #nowthatchersdead."
For you older folk out there, that's to be read as "now'thatchers'dead" as opposed to "now'that'chers'dead". Or, to put it another way, Dark Lady lives on and Iron Lady has passed.
This all reminds me of the classic joke that I first heard on Three's Company, when Jack was concerned about one of the girls' new paramours and suspected that he was a sexual predator. And a bold one at that -- as Jack was reading the business cards the guy had printed up exclaiming that he was John Doe, the rapist -- or, if one looked more closely at the card -- that he was John Doe, therapist (as was pointed out to the character).
Which is all to say -- SPACES matter! Let's not let the younger generation decide that they don't!
OH YOU SILLY INTERNET:
http://www.salon.com/2013/04/08/internet_confused_by_nowthatchersdead_hashtag_on_twitter/
OH SO QUOTABLE:
http://www.vogue.co.uk/spy/celebrity-photos/2013/4/8/margaret-thatcher-most-famous-quotes
OH SO CHER:
http://www.cherworld.com/cher-news/cher-officially-releases-womans-world/
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