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- Path: sparky!uunet!ogicse!reed!mlsmith
- From: mlsmith@reed.edu (Marty L. Smith)
- Newsgroups: rec.humor
- Subject: Re: RIDDLES (involving no survivors,bears,birds or bus drivers)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.103641.16913@reed.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 10:36:41 GMT
- Article-I.D.: reed.1992Dec22.103641.16913
- References: <ByzpDp.Ao1@newcastle.ac.uk> <Bz1MEK.H8F@newcastle.ac.uk> <1992Dec17.230031.13567@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
- Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
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- In article <1992Dec17.230031.13567@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> mrc@dasher.cc.bellcore.com (cole,melody r) writes:
- >>
- >> Is it possible to construct a sentence in English which contains five
- >>consecutive "and"s and doesn't break any rules of English
- >>grammar/syntax/semantics (i.e. it has to make sense)?
-
- People following this thread may also be interested in this challenge: How
- many consecutive prepositions can you end a sentence with *without* quoting.
- That is to say, no talking about the prepositions as words; you have to use
- them for real. I know one that has five, but I'm sure that can be improved
- upon.
-