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Oh, Simplefly. Will you ever learn?

Let's do an in-depth analysis of this one, shall we? (And we're sure we're still missing quite a few errors...)

• "BUT DON'T PANIC, Fluid..." As this sentence can be broken into two, a semicolon or a period should have been used after the capitalized "panic." Or, if Simplefly wanted to explain why one shouldn't panic, a colon would also have been acceptable.
• "...new found..." Microsoft Word wouldn't have caught this one, but that doesn't mean it's correct. "Newfound" is actually one word. We've also seen it as a hyphenate ("new-found"), which can be correct, even if the green squiggly line disagrees. In any event, Simplefly's got it wrong.
• "...the new fluid website..." Umm... Jay? Fluid is your client. The least you can do is capitalize their name.
• "...llaunched..." Enough said.
• "...you should definitely give that a peak if you haven't yet." Peak: "extremum: the most extreme possible amount or value." Peek: "a quick look."
• "And to the important stuff, we've just done our first in house booking for Friday March 9th." Colon after stuff. In-hyphen-house. Comma after Friday.
• "...its sure to be a pretty incredible night." Its is a possessive pronoun. As in, "I like its color." It's is a contraction meaning "it is." These are the rules we learn in fourth grade.
• "The guestlist will probably open tomorrow or Friday for that one, until then check the myspace page for the party, myspace.com/kdswthgns." Period or semi colon after "that one." Comma after "until then." MySpace. Colon after the word party, or hell, we don't know, just hyperlink the word "MySpace." Sorry. "myspace."
• "...for the next month or so, get on the list..." For the love of God, stop abusing the comma.

From that point on, things just aren't pretty. They're not necessarily incorrect. Just not pretty.

And oh yeah. We signed up for the Fluid list, mostly out of sheer morbid curiosity. Some things just don't change...