I would go with A, but I love statements like this that just scream for a comma or dash in so many places, and would still be open to interpretation.
Two of my favorites:
“Huge Salmon Pleasing Fisherman” (actual headline from the SF Chronicle), and
Slow Trucks
(my favorite interpretation is “Find a truck and slow it down”)
@stolicat I also like it when words get strung together and can be read in ways other than intended. The Cincinnati Reds have their URL on the fence as “cincinnatireds.com.”
I’ve always hoped that it subliminally makes the players tired (as rival Rockies fan.)
@djslack I think I have seen that article before. I don’t recall much of english class or style guides. Or the “oxford” comma. Just. Seems natural. It’s a basic delimiter and “and” does not fill that roll.
I’d say NONE of the above and give my own answer.
Fuck boys get money because they’re total “A-holes”, they’ll do anything to get someone else to spend their money so they can hold onto the money they’ve got. They’re narcissistic and usually sociopaths! Yes, I knew one of them all to well!
@andrewkl there is also “slow deaf child” granted they try and use a running kid or bar as the break. You are clearly meant to parse them as separate command/statement. But they are fun if read straight
You took it’s possible to have a normal career. While enjoying sex in your personal life. That way? Maybe there was a parsing error but the point stands. Congressman make jokes about way worse.
@f00l@mike808@RiotDemon@unksol Too bad they didn’t sell since the owners lost all (and the captain and a crew member) when it sunk during a hurricane. Those of us in the tall ship world wondered why on earth they set sail and thought they could outrun it rather than stay where they were on shore. Safer for the people tied at the dock up a river. I remember watching that on their facebook and eventually on TV when a station picked it up.
C?
6?
Yes.
A
I would go with A, but I love statements like this that just scream for a comma or dash in so many places, and would still be open to interpretation.
Two of my favorites:
“Huge Salmon Pleasing Fisherman” (actual headline from the SF Chronicle), and
Slow Trucks
(my favorite interpretation is “Find a truck and slow it down”)
@stolicat I knew a guy who’d read road signs out loud that way:
NO LITTERING!
$100? Fine!
@stolicat I also like it when words get strung together and can be read in ways other than intended. The Cincinnati Reds have their URL on the fence as “cincinnatireds.com.”
I’ve always hoped that it subliminally makes the players tired (as rival Rockies fan.)
@stolicat I occasionally see someone LOLing about a “Slow Children at Play” sign.
@phendrick @stolicat
“Let’s eat grandma”
@stolicat Like the classic Simpson’s example:
Works on Contingency
No Money Down
After the lawyer gets his Ad back, he puts in the punctuation:
Works on Contingency?
No, Money Down!
Hey, I found an image of it:
First instinct A but I can really hear myself saying it in D context
F. All of the above.
I just happened to read this tangentially related article yesterday, think I’ll drop it here: https://thewritelife.com/is-the-oxford-comma-necessary/
@djslack, thanks for sharing that extremely interesting article!
@djslack I think I have seen that article before. I don’t recall much of english class or style guides. Or the “oxford” comma. Just. Seems natural. It’s a basic delimiter and “and” does not fill that roll.
I’d say NONE of the above and give my own answer.
Fuck boys get money because they’re total “A-holes”, they’ll do anything to get someone else to spend their money so they can hold onto the money they’ve got. They’re narcissistic and usually sociopaths! Yes, I knew one of them all to well!
C
“Slow Children Playing”. Shouldn’t slow children be in school? Or maybe they just need to be faster to get out of my way.
@andrewkl there is also “slow deaf child” granted they try and use a running kid or bar as the break. You are clearly meant to parse them as separate command/statement. But they are fun if read straight
sounds like someone is planning a heist
@Cerridwyn been watching a good girls marathon?
@unksol
Clearly enjoy having sex while making your own money.
@unksol
For example, in a brothel?
@f00l seriously? That was B.
You took it’s possible to have a normal career. While enjoying sex in your personal life. That way? Maybe there was a parsing error but the point stands. Congressman make jokes about way worse.
@unksol
Nope. Just enjoyed the ambiguity of your phrasing.
Perhaps I didn’t express that 'take" in any clear way. My bad.
@f00l well we are enjoying ambiguous phrasing too
@f00l wait there was no “take”…
@f00l yes that was your take on what was said. My brain is slow today. Sigh. My bad. Again.
@RiotDemon I mean how much is the bounty?
@RiotDemon @unksol
A bounty ought to at least be worth a mutiny.
@f00l @RiotDemon @unksol
That’s what? $5 million? That’s what Westgroup offered to buy Mutiny for in Halt and Catch Fire, episode 7.
@f00l @mike808 @RiotDemon @unksol Too bad they didn’t sell since the owners lost all (and the captain and a crew member) when it sunk during a hurricane. Those of us in the tall ship world wondered why on earth they set sail and thought they could outrun it rather than stay where they were on shore. Safer for the people tied at the dock up a river. I remember watching that on their facebook and eventually on TV when a station picked it up.