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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited September 2020
    Sounds like he deserved it @KT53 😉
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    For the English language nerds... of which I am one after having a mum who constantly read out the mistakes in the newspaper!  
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited September 2020

    James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher.

    Never could work this one out.
    I suppose commas would help but there were none on the wikipee that I copied.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    I know it as "The examination had been marked. Smith, where Jones had had 'had', had had 'had had'. 'Had had' had had the examiner's approval."
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    It needs two commas and a full stop though you could get away with two commas and a semi colon.

    Try this, said by the sign writer to his apprentice. The gap between Dog and and and and and Gun is too big. No punctuation is strictly necessary.
    Rutland, England
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    😵
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Just discovered my dwarf box hedges in the front garden have box moth caterpillar. Presumably the ones in the back garden will be next.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    I've only just realised that Storm Ellen up-ended 2 seed trays of carefully-sorted daffodil bulbs into the large crate below them in the grow house.  Crate contained more separated bulbs.  Mixed daffs next spring, then...
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • strelitzia32strelitzia32 Posts: 758
    BenCotto said:
    It needs two commas and a full stop though you could get away with two commas and a semi colon.

    Try this, said by the sign writer to his apprentice. The gap between Dog and and and and and Gun is too big. No punctuation is strictly necessary.
    For years I've known this as St George and ( insert more ) the Dragon. Finally I get it!
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I still can't get the had thing😟 But looking on the bright side , I get the dog one.
    I think my main problem is holding stuff in my short term memory while I work it out. I get half way through the process and find initial data has been sent to the reycling bin. That's why I'm crap at chess. I have a great plan and then can't remember where to start
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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