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Topic: What's in your newspaper today?
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Onceupon: I really appreciate the english lessons as we were taught more about proper grammar and punctuation, etc. from our parents than we were at school. But, since you are such a stickler for correctness, shouldn't there be a comma between two and too? 
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I decided the sentence was more amusing without it 
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Oh, yes, it is just too, too amusing... 
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Onceupon, as I said, things have changed. Fast was not an adverb, any more than quick was an adverb. However, quick did have an adverbial form (quickly), while fast did not.
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Tom and Once: Quick is also a noun, by the way, meaning "live". "...the quick and the dead..." to quote the King James version of the Bible. My mom taught me that the part of the fingernail that would bleed if broken off was called "the quick".
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