It’s a little difficult to believe that a pie in the face used to be a pinnacle of hilarity, isn’t it?

 

  Thank you for your perspective, and that’s a good point. Do you think pie in the face is one of the utmost funniest things in comedy? (By the way, I just realized how much I miss slapstick.)
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I do. Some of the best were shown on 'The Three Stooges'.

I like everything you both said here.  :)

Canada. That figures, eh.

 

  (He took it pretty good well, though, and the . . . )


Missing two commas.

 

 The District of Columbia, right?
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Yes sir.

 

  (Comma after the word “Yes”.)

Nope.  There is an exception for informal prose or dialogue, which includes conversational.  There is another that says when yes sir is used like I just used it and kids use it when addressing parents.    This is covered in entry 5.47 of The Chicago Manual of Style (14th ed.), but I just read it here:  https://www.deareditor.com/2015/05/re-the-missing-comma-in-yes-sir-totally-bugs/ 

Commas are hard and my two best friends in law school and I had many conversations about them.  They had grammar checker on their computers and it was wrong very very often.  I spent a career writing letters for the president of my company to sign so I lived with a secretary handbook and a grammar book on my desk.  Anyway, thanks for the brain workout.   

 

  (Comma after the word “Yes”.)

No sir.