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Life Sentence for Author who fails to use Punctuation
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Posted 10 years ago #
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Simply Super 5* _ I'd thought that we had exhausted the possibilities of pun-ctuation - geddit?
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Poor chap - he should have made a dash for it.
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it was a very sad case, but better a life sentence than capital punishment
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He should be colon ized in a halfway house
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This must come to a stop. Period. It's a miscarriage return of justice.
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..and I'm danger of falling into a comma
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Author in a diacritical position, moved to open prison after suffering from apostrapobia.
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How about that Irish geezer who wrote the final 75 pages of a turgid unreadable book, without punctuation. He got some dosh out of it, didn't he? His parentheses were probably proud of him.
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There is a book which is one sentence long. Anyone remember the title?
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Author insists "I will continue without punctuation tilde day I die"
Ha, sorry :)Posted 10 years ago # -
'Any more punctuation jokes and you'll get a punch up the bracket.' That's what Mrs Thatcher's son is meant to have said - I want to check if it's true, so I'll question Mark...
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Then there was that scar left on that Indian gentleman when he was attacked by a reformed shellfish. Answering the question ‘any distinguishing features?’ on his passport application, he wrote ‘Yes, an ex-clam Asian mark!’
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Ostsee, I think that book is the Talmud. No punctuation, to the delight of Talmudic scholars for centuries.
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He'll be sent down for a long period, as they say in America. Thank goodness there's no capital punishment in Britain.
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took me a while to get this one. How about 'Long sentence...'
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Very long sentence for author who refused to use punctuation
An author whose name cannot be revealed for legal reasons but who was prosecuted under the new Punctuation Act which was rushed through Parliament earlier this week and who was found guilty by a majority verdict of a persistent failure to use punctuation despite having been previously given three preliminary warnings and a formal caution for similar offences has only himself to blame for the very long sentence I have just handed him said the Judge
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Thats more like it malgor. For a moment I thought I was reading Hemmingway.
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Nice work Malgor :)
And thanks Skylarking, good ideaPosted 10 years ago # -
Excellent.
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Thanks Malgor.
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