Re: Puctuation Puzzle

Carl G. said:

>
> "User1" <harvey.stanier@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:Rczxf.38927$q4.10051@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Does "Spoiler?" have any significnace? or is it another puzzle.
>>
>
> The question mark was intentional. It indicated that my response was
> unlikely to spoil the puzzle for the majority of the participants in
> rec.puzzles.
>
> The term "ObPuzzle"can be used to indicate another puzzle. The prefix
> "Ob"
> is short for "obligatory". When a post is otherwise off-topic, an
> "ObPuzzle" can be included to make it on-topic. What follows is a
> "quick-and-easy" example.
>
> ObPuzzle: Give an example where 'and "and" and "and" and' might
> reasonable appear in a post discussing the previous sentence.

Such an example is impossible to devise, because you have hyphens between
"quick" and "and" and "and" and "easy", but of course the impossible is
never terribly difficult to do.

ObExtendedVersion: come up with a tale in which fourteen consecutive "and"s
are used correctly. Capitalisation is allowed. (This is probably in the
FAQ. In fact, I'll go so far as to say this - if you already know it,
please don't bother responding, except perhaps with a smug grin rather than
a spoiler. Let the newbies have a go at working it out!)


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