Re: Punch-uating, your Party: The new Cross-Overs, for throw-ers and go-ers

Part 1..."Intro-ducing..."

JIT!  Yep, just in time for all you hosts and party-goers, other-wise revelers, those who love to PARTY! Who have been held back some the past few years, at least as far as IP get togethers go. Here, as your host, of this post, I am here to greet you, "welcome you in!" and to introduce you to what's now in, out, since you were out and about, at least as far as "social" gatherings are concerned. I am here to upgrade your social skills, provide you with a handbook (more like a small cheat sheet) you can fit inside whatever is the new 'thing' to carry them around, with the updated social (ab)norms, especially as in...

The New BIG 3: Around the region in which this im-poster resides, "The Big Three" used to be a quick reference to the main car companies, which are largely responsible for much of our local economy, as well as fueling that around the world, which is now termed "global", of course. Hard enough to keep up with what they're calling themselves these days, as well as what is actually "All American" as in what percentage of parts made here, there, assembled over there or here, can now be labeled as such. And the corresponding debate of who, on the gridiron, should be "voted in", as an All American!. And back to the making of autos, before the heated debate, about what fuel will (literally) fuel the car industry, a debate emerged, as to what actually constitutes a "cross-over" and has evolved into what actually to call this whole industry itself...witness the word "car" being ever-so-subtly replaced with "transportation" ("the sky's the limit!"). Such a simple reference, prompt, to bring to mind the three auto companies, as well as what "not" to "bring to the party", as in the three topics "not open for discussion" in "polite company". What used to include politics, religion, and money, the order of which depends on who you invited and the seating chart...what we learned from all this, is that in both isolation and in combinations...whatever the subject, verbs, nouns, tenses, can all, in and of themselves become so: tense, that is, that...

"Words Matter": Duh! Of course they do. But what about the little signs, non-alphabetic characters, the use of which reflects ours: ranging from commas to pause, to apostrophes, which can sometimes be a bit possessive and other times pluralize, group US together...and, of course both colons and semi, the use of which can assist in connecting 'independents', clauses, as well as a few other uses...the use of which may be appreciated even in mixed company whereas if said aloud, spoken in "polite company" at the wrong moment, may make you, yourself the butt of another's joke, which you may only find semi-humorous:  "please refrain from talking about your -oscopy; it's giving me gas." So, I bring you, as party of your party prep, a new word combo, a cross-over for some, a hybrid for others, representing the new social norms, for such occasions, the words and subjects that, while worth a look and consideration at less formal-ized times, may be under-appreciated by those lacking in 'taste', the latter of which may eventuate in an inquiry into the 'secret ingredient' in the punch bowl that, of course, "packed a punch!" 

Part 2 - Re: introducing the new House, rules