Thursday, May 27, 2010

PUNCTUATION!

An English professor wrote the words: "A woman without her man is nothing" on the chalkboard and asked his students to punctuate it correctly.

All of the males in the class wrote: "A woman, without her man, is nothing."

All the females in the class wrote: "A woman: without her, man is nothing."

Punctuation is powerful.



Don't blame me. Blame Lisa.

5 comments:

  1. Then there is the Beckett play version:

    A woman without. Her man is. Nothing.

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  2. But what does it mean, Paul (A.)?

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  3. Grandmere, do you require of Beckett that he must have meaning?

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  4. Phalz prophet, no, but Paul (A.) is so smart that I thought maybe....

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