Punctuated! For! Emphasis!/Real Life


Examples of Punctuated! For! Emphasis! in Real Life include:

  • "Ladies and gentlemen! START! YOUR! ENGINES!"
  • Most. Overused. Emphasis. Technique. Ever.
  • BACK! OF! STEEL! SHOULDER! OF! STEEL! TRANSVESTITE! OF! STEEL! SET! OF! CARDBOARD!--Courtesy of The Rocky Horror Picture Show audiences.
  • Gordon Ramsay, a British TV chef, has pretty much his whole screen image built on this sort of thing—he gets quite passionate about food (and irritated by idiots...). Just like the Hell's Kitchen example in Live Action TV.
  • Nearly... Everything that... William... Shatner... Ever said. I... Can't... Stress this enough... He... Speaks... in a... very... Staccato manner.
    • Lampshaded by himself in a onstage at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal, when he said (punctuated by the words appearing on a screen behind him) - "And I don't talk like EVERY! WORD! IS! ITS! OWN! SENTENCE!"
  • "I'm...a generic politician...and I...don't know how...to string...more than...three words...together..."
    • Quick guideline: If you ever hear a politician not talking like this, he's using a Teleprompter.
    • Sadly, they're taught to orate like this, apparently because pollsters believe that Voters Are Morons. It's also a great way to avoid messing up, or saying the wrong thing. Such slip-ups can be disastrous, thanks to stupid media standards and Social Media.
    • Back before Teleprompters were common, P J O'Rourke observed that politicians would read out their prepared speeches this way, interrupted by page-turning at the most inconvenient possible moment: "We are in a position! To mandate large expenditures! By both state and local governments! But we are not!" rustlerustlerustle "Giving them financial aid!"
  • Sometimes happens in various chatrooms only to be kicked out for flooding if entered word per word.
  • Many people recite prayers in this manner. "For the kingdom! and the power! and the glory! are yours! now! and forever! A!-men!
    • Oh yes. Some people say the Hail Mary with a noticeable pause. where. it. doesn't. belong. "Hail Mary. Full of grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou..."
    • Similarly, some Southern Gospel preachers. "And the LORD! SAID! that you will be SANCTIFIED! by the BLOOD! of JAY-ZUZZ!"
  • Seriously, how many people's school songs have this? Taken directly from my school rouser: Let's go! Team! Win! Team! RAH! RAH! YEA! ROYALS! RAH! RAH! FIGHT!
    • This seems to be a very American thing. Most British school songs are interminably legato- think of Eddie Izzard's rendition of 'Hallelujah', but longer and with more 'loooooyaltyyyyy...'
  • "JAN! KEN! PON!" ("Rock! Paper! Scissors!", and even other three-syllable phrases)
  • The traditional way to start a race or other competition: "READY! SET! GO!".
  • Said in countless variations when a movie begins filming a take: LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION!
    • A common misconception, actually (or, at the very least, a very outdated one). It generally goes something like this: "Rolling." "Sound speed." "ACTION!"
  • "On the count of three: ONE! TWO! THREE!"
  • "FIVE! FOUR! THREE! TWO! ONE! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!" ("Should auld acquaintance be forgot...", etc)
  • Yes! We! Can!
  • For American Football, as popularized by Howard Cosell and Chris Berman: "He could! Go! All! The! Way!"
  • A famous quote made by this editor's old GM. Now seen in various forms through the internet: "The. Bear. Eats. You."
  • Don't! Buy! Thai! was a grass-roots boycott organized in part by Andrew Vachss in the 1990s, encouraging people to boycott products that are made in Thailand in protest of the spread of child prostitution in that country. The boycott lost steam around 2000.
  • Satoru Iwata introducing the Nintendo 3DS at the Nintendo E3 2010 conference:

Iwata: Everyone. This. Is. Nintendo. 3. D. S.

  • Disney Theme Parks: The Back. Side. Of. Water!
  • How can anyone forgot about Itschriscrocker video on YouTube: LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!
  • Félix Rodriguez de la Fuente spoke like this too (At least on El Hombre Y La Tierra).
  • There is George H.W. Bush's most famous broken promise, using this trope twice "Read. My. Lips." "No. New. Taxes."
    • Technically speaking he just raised the old taxes - the letter of the promise was obeyed, while the spirit was cheerfully forgotten.
      • Not just technically speaking, but intentional. Bush and many other politicans use this technique all the time to fool people into believing the politican in question promised them something they didnt actually promised.
      • While those kind of deceptions are very common with politicians, it wasn't exactly what happened with Bush. Bush meant it at the time he said it, and after he won the election, he kept that promise for two years. However, political realities caught up with him. Bush's promise was based on continuing economic expansion which didn't happen, and the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Balanced Budget Act mandated either new taxes or sweeping budget cuts across the board. Neither party wanted the sweeping cuts, and the Democrats controlled congress, and wanted a tax hike. Facing the threat of a total government shutdown, Bush entered several meetings with friends he had in the Democratic leadership, and cut a deal. He thought it would be a gentleman's agreement, and they would support him in the media. Unfortunately, they didn't, they turned against him, and publicly lambasted him for breaking his famous oath. His decision also infuriated Republicans, and they lambasted him in the press just as much, and he lost support from his own party. Combined with papers like the New York Times running banner headlines of "Read My Lips: I Lied" it torpedoed any chance of re-election. Bush hasn't spoken to his former friends since. In short, fate, a plummeting economy and politics as usual put him in a situation with no good decision available.
  • Bill Clinton Did not. Have. Sexual. Relations. With. That. Woman.
  • Peter Dickson, the Voiceover Man of E4 and The X Factor, among others: IT'S TIME. TO TASTE. THE MUESLI!
  • Beliefnet: Never. Ever. Give. Up.
  • You'll find this done quite a bit by members in TV Tropes, which are Potholed to their copy of this very page. (And which we've inherited.)
  • The advertising slogan for California Pistachios: "Big. Open. Pistachios."
  • In a well known, nasally, British accent, Robin Leach of "Lifestyles... of the Rich. And. Famous."
  • Rep. Anthony Weiner during an incensed and impassioned speech ended with saying his opponent, "Instead of [...] defending [his] colleagues in voting no on this humane bill, [...] should urge them to vote yes, something the gentleman HAS! NOT! DONE!"
  • Back in May 2011, the United States Secret Service tweeted: had to monitor Fox for a story. Can’t. Deal. With. The. Blathering.
  • Done to an obnoxious customer in (The Customer is) Not Always Right.
  • Some poets have hit upon using commas for emphasis. In, some, cases, after, every, word.
    • Others - like - to - use - dashes.
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