> > reading "No trespassing violators will be prosecuted." That sounded
> > like a rather friendly policy till I did a double take and put the
> > comma in...
My favorite is the sandwich-board sign in front of the pager
store that says "Huge pager sale", where the first two words
are in one typeface and the third in another, implying that
they are selling huge pagers. No wonder they're cheap...who'd
want a huge pager?
ObLojban: Note that neither of these particular ambiguities
is possible in Lojban; one of the reasons English is a much
better language for humorists.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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