Sorry, the headline is missing punctuation.
For context, I meant to say:
"I am giving up. Drinking until Christmas."
What is your most notable punctuation error that entirely changed the context of one of your stories?
Sorry, the headline is missing punctuation.
For context, I meant to say:
"I am giving up. Drinking until Christmas."
What is your most notable punctuation error that entirely changed the context of one of your stories?
This may not strictly fit in with the topic but I remember a Redd Foxx routine where he drops one word at a time off of a sentence. Americans might remember him from the Sanford and Son comedy series back in the 70s.
His tone of voice is really what makes it but I'll try. The sentence is "Oh, honey, let's not park here". Here we go...
Oh, honey, let's not park...
Ohhh, honey, let's not....
Oh, Honey, LET'S!!!
OH HONEY !!
OHHHHHHHH
The man was the king of raunch.
routine where he drops one word at a time off of a sentence.
...and that reminds me of the 1974 Goodies song "Father Christmas do not touch me" (Google lyrics link with links to YouTube) sung to the tune of the "Battle Hymn Of The Republic", including
"I can't stand little girls, BIGGER ONES ARE BETTER!!"
Didn't Charles Aznavour sing something to the opposite?
The woke brigade retrospectively interpreted it to mean he advocated kiddy diddling.
AJ
The woke brigade retrospectively interpreted it to mean he advocated kiddy diddling.
The same group is now claiming that cowboys in the old west were mostly young teen boys (since there weren't a lot of women around, if you get my drift).
That may be wishful thinking on the part of some of the LSPDQLMNOP community. After all, we have photos of cowboys in the old west, and they look pretty darn old and wrinkled to be "teens".
I gave up drinking after mistaking a village water fountain for a urinal in Venezuela. Between the beat down and two days spent as a guest of the local gendarmes, I saw the light of reason.
You saw chocolate covered caramels glow in the dark?
Umm no, but I did see the mice under my eyes and knots on my head.
Background:
In Generous Offers 2 Mike, Chrissy, and Beth are planning a cruise departing Sidney, Australia in mid November. Beth asks, "Why not cruise in the summer when it's warmer?"
I wrote:
Chrissy knew that Beth was wrong telling her, "Its summer south of the equator."
CoullPert pointed out that my missing semicolon changed the meaning.
As corrected:
Chrissy knew that Beth was wrong; telling her, "Its summer south of the equator."