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Re:Why the First Laptop Had Such a Hard Time Catching On by toyg on Friday October 12, 2012 @05:46AM (#4644368)
I thought El Reg did that only for Yahoo! or other silly exclamation-mark-including brands...?

Not that I read it much, of late -- could never stand Orlowski, and recently the site has been defined as "the Daily Mail of Tech", so it's not like I have much of an incentive...

Re:Why the First Laptop Had Such a Hard Time Catching On by lutusp on Friday October 12, 2012 @06:06AM (#4644409)
> I thought El Reg did that only for Yahoo! or other silly exclamation-mark-including brands

I confess I never noticed the contexts, only that they existed. They're common enough that I suspect there's a macro at the ready in the El Reg editing apps: text =~ s/(\w+)/$1!/g

> Not that I read it much, of late ...

Same here -- the stylistic memes begin to wear on one.

Re:Why the First Laptop Had Such a Hard Time Catching On by vidarh on Friday October 12, 2012 @08:56AM (#4644775)
Yes, it's pretty much reserved for Yahoo!