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From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Ambigious newspaper line
Message-ID: <289@frog.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 13:02:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: frog.289
Posted: Thu Aug 29 13:02:31 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 1-Sep-85 12:27:34 EDT
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Organization: Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA
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> 
> >In article <2162@hcradm.UUCP> steve@hcradm.UUCP (Steve Pozgaj) writes:
> >>In reference to:
> >>
> >>>	I was reading the newspaper and I read:
> >>
> >>>	". . . the shadowy Islamic Jihad terrorist group called
> >>>	 the Associated Press of Beirut, . . ."
> >>
> >>>	. . . Hmm, strange name for a terrorist group!
> >>
> >>Let's just point out that *if* there were a comma after the
> >>word "group", then this would be witty, since it would infer a
> >>reflexive participle phrase (I think that's what they're called).
> >>This would come across as "the group, called AP of Beirut, ...".
> >>
> >>However, as it stands, the sentence makes perfect sense: "the
> >>group in question placed some form of call to the AP of Beirut".
> >>
> >>	Steve "Grammar Vigilante" Pozgaj
> >>	{decvax!watmath!utzoo}!hcr!steve
> >
> >
> >Flames on.
> >
> >Why do people insist on continually posting articles nit-picking about
> >grammar and spelling?  I'm sure the poster of the original quote knew
> >what the sentence actually meant but felt that at a quick glance it
> >could be misinterpreted in an amusing way.  We don't need an English
> >lesson everytime someone posts an article, at least not in net.jokes.
> >Why doesn't someone create net.highschool-english-teacher so that
> >all those people on the net who delight in posting follow ups with
> >spelling corrections have somewhere to go.
> >/* End of text from uicsl:net.jokes */
> 
> Flames on.
> 
> Why do people insist on continually posting articles nit-picking about
> nit-picking about grammar and spelling?  I'm sure the poster of the 
> original nit-picking knew what the sentence actually meant but felt that
> after a long reflection the sentence could be interpreted in a boring way.
> We don't need a nit-picking-about-nit-picking lesson everytime someone posts an
> article, at least not in net.jokes.
> Why doesn't someone create net.nit-picking-nit-pickers so that
> all those people on the net who delight in posting follow ups nit-picking
> nit-pickers have somewhere to go.
> 

Flames on.

Why do people insist on continually posting articles nit-picking about
nit-picking about nit-picking about grammar and spelling?  I'm sure the poster
of the original nit-picking-nit-picking knew what the sentence actually meant
but felt that after a long reflection the sentence could be interpreted in an
amusing way.  We don't need a nit-picking-about-nit-picking-about-nit-picking
lesson everytime someone posts an article, at least not in net.jokes.
Why doesn't someone create net.nit-picking-nit-pickers-nit-picking so that
all those people on the net who delight in posting follow ups to follow ups
on nit-picking nit-pickers have somewhere to go.

Better yet, could someone post the original proof that a Turing machine can
construct copies of itself? :-)


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