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 For you are busy, you need to get out the door because it’s your anniversary, or you are keen to enjoy the [[work-life balance]] your employer keeps going on about, and the last round of comments include asking you to remove the bold from a full stop<ref>True Story. A gentleman from in-house team at Credit Suisse once marked up a pricing supplement, which I had sent him by [[fax]], in this way. At 2 in the morning. Twist: THE FULL STOP WASN’T BOLD. It was a artefact from the low resolution of the fax machine.</ref>, or the single insertion: “[[unless the parties otherwise agree]]”.
-You know this is pedantic, oafish, legally ignorant, but it does no harm. An adversarial conversation with this fellow is likely to end in harsh words or even violence, so you demur.
+You know this is pedantic, oafish, legally ignorant, but it does no harm. An adversarial conversation with this fellow is likely to end in harsh words or even violence, so you demur: “[[I’m not going to die in a ditch about it]]”, you say, though you mean I will try to control my animal impulses so ''you'' don’t wind up dead in a ditch, and in that clumsy stutter goes, and you think that’s the last you’ll ever hear of it.
-And in the morning, a new mark-up has arrived, with a plague of [[unless the parties agree otherwise]] insertions settling like locusts on your elegant prose.
+And in the morning, a new mark-up has arrived, with a plague of [[unless the parties agree otherwise]] insertions settling like locusts on your elegant prose, [[for the avoidance of doubt]].
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