The county commission meetings and the regular goings on could be marketed by the chamber as a destination tourist attraction, possibly filling up downtown hotels, downtown restaurants, and filling the coffers of other downtown establishments.

Marketers could sell T-shirts and related accessories, much like the vendors do at DisneyWorld and at NASCAR races. Fans could line up for their University Twit, Lumpy, Tank, Scooby, Pinkster, R. Larry, and all of the related character souveniers. Elvis had gold frames, vendors could sell Mike Hammond silver frames, Mike Lowe toupees, Mike Ragsdale read with me children's books, and Knox County Sheriff's department model helicopters and motorcycles.

It would be a bonanza all at the expense of the taxpaying public of Knox County which has paid through the nose for this crap since 2002.

We would possibly need a TIF to build a CC hotel in close proximity in order for the thing to be successful.

Otherwise it looks like a moneymaker. Hopefully Gloria Ray's team is on top of this opportunity for Knoxville.

Should the period be inside the double quotes on the shirt?

"Yes."

I don't know about that. I've discussed it with editors and experts, and there are mixed feelings. Apparently the period inside the quote goes back to the typesetter's discomfort with a dot hanging out there all by itself.

My theory is (but I'm happy to be corrected) that if it's an actual quote of someone speaking, the period should be inside the quote. But if it's a "scare quote", or a mocking of a term, that's not a quote so the period should be after. That's how I write it, but I could be wrong.

Regardless, it's a way cool t-shirt that will go down in Knox Co. political history.

Per the Chicago Style Manual, periods and commas go inside quotation marks -- no exceptions. That's what you'll see in the NY Times, the New Yorker, Supreme Court opinions, etc. They do it differently in Britain, Canada, and the Commonwealth countries generally, I think.

"...and there's mixed feelings."

Randy, ONLY since you said you're "happy to be corrected," shouldn't that be "there ARE mixed feelings?"

(Sorry--one of my pet peeves :-)

And the punctuation inside the quatations is one of mine. We're not British.

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Pam Strickland

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