Serial comma preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, storing, packing for shipment or distribution" of certain goods were activities exempted from the general requirement of overtime pay; the question was whether this list included the distribution of the goods, or only the packing of the goods for distribution. The lack of a comma suggested one meaning, while the omission of the conjunction "or" before "packing" and the fact that the "Maine Legislative Drafting Manual" advised against use of the serial comma suggested another. It said "Although authorities on punctuation may differ, when drafting Maine law or rules, don’t use a comma between the penultimate
Irony punctuation mark was used earlier by Marcellin Jobard in an article dated June 11, 1841, and commented in an 1842 report. Hervé Bazin, in his 1966 essay "Plumons l'Oiseau" (“Let's pluck the bird”), used the Greek letter ψ with a dot below for the same purpose . In the same work, the author proposed five other innovative punctuation marks: the “doubt point” , “conviction point” , “acclamation point” , “authority point” , and “love point” . In March 2007, the Dutch foundation CPNB "(Collectieve Propaganda van het Nederlandse Boek)" presented another design of an irony mark, the "ironieteken": (). Tom Driberg