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To: Ilaine who wrote (1979)	3/1/1999 2:35:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 4711

(Inside the quotation mark, outside the parenthesis). Inside the quotation mark, yes. As to the parenthesis, the period goes INSIDE if the sentence is ended before the parenthesis, as yours was; that is, if you have a complete sentence within the parentheses. So in your case, the period should have been inside. The period goes outside if the portion in parentheses is part of the sentence. (She was crazy, I think.) She was crazy (I think). Don't ask me why parentheses are done this way and quotation marks aren't. I don't make the rules, I just try to follow them!

To: Ilaine who wrote (1979)	3/1/1999 8:08:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4711

Steven is simply being pissy. He is correct, of course, and there are numerous rules governing the placement of the period, which I can look up and post if you are curious. However, the more recent rule of thumb is that the period belongs inside the parentheses. Re fetch, tote, and carry: Please forgive me for not being sure if my memory is reliable (I have been chided in a PM today for forgetting some things I didn't realize that I was supposed to remember); but as I recall, you are in the South. In the South it used to be perfectly acceptable to refer to a "lift" provided by one's cousin with the following: "My cousin carried me here."