Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!bu-cs!buengc!bph From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: The prince of France is bald. Message-ID: <2046@buengc.BU.EDU> Date: 4 Feb 89 17:00:57 GMT References: <697@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> <44267@linus.UUCP> Reply-To: bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) Followup-To: comp.ai Organization: Boston Univ. Col. of Eng. Lines: 12 In article <44267@linus.UUCP> bwk@mbunix.mitre.org (Barry Kort) writes: > > The prince of France has made a monkey out of his father > (e.g. the king of France is a hairy parent.) > >Clear? Shouldn't that be "...prince of France's son has..." --Blair "One should always make the pun agree with its antecedent..."