From: bob@barker (Bob Barker)
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Subject: Re: Spot the Hidden Agenda
Date: 17 Apr 92 18:02:12 GMT
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In article <1992Apr14.021317.2446@mac.cc.macalstr.edu>, ehillman@mac.cc.macalstr.edu (Drifting Down Stream on a Warm Summer's Day.) writes...
>"Is half of a quined sentence" is half of a quined sentence.
>"Is a sentence fragment" is a sentence fragment.
>"When quined, yields falsehood" when quined, yields falsehood.

Personally, I prefer the punctuation puzzles mixed with the grammatical 
absurdities as such:

Bob where Tom had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had
had had had had had had had had had had had had had had was the incorrect
response.

And of course, as required in USENET puzzle solutions, I'm going to throw a 
control-L in here to separate the puzzle question from the puzzle answer.

If you think you can solve the puzzle, please do not hit return past the form
feed until you have developed an answer.


Are you sure you want to continue?  Are you really sure you want to go on?
Have you written your answer down to see whether the correct response was
given by you, and have you verified your response as to a date prior to that
of reading this message by anyone other than yourself?

These are rhetorical questions, not meant to be taken literally.



Last chance.  Are you absolutely sure?  I'll repeat the sentence:

Bob where Tom had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had
had had had had had had had had had had had had had had was the incorrect
response.

When you're ABSOLUTELY SURE you want to continue, please do so.



Now I'm going to give you the answer.

But before I do that I'd like to remnd you of the valuable prizes that all our
winners are going to take home today.

A case of Rice-a-Roni, the San Francisco treat
Fifty bottles of Turtle Wax,
and for that lucky someone a BRAND NEW CAR!

We all hope that each and every one of you contestants is a winner.



We should also like to thank our sponsor, Mitsubishi Motors, for making this
event possible today.  Without the monetary help of Mitsubishi, there would be
no contest; so thank you, Mitsubishi!

Remember the fine quality of Mitsubishi Motors when you purchase your next
automobile.  Mitsubishi Motors are long lasting, fuel efficient, and so
aerodynamically designed that you'll feel like you're flying on a whisp of
air.  Mitsubishi Motors are designed for your own special, personal comfort.



And now we shall have the reading of the answer.

Please start the drum roll now.

And the answer is:



"Bob", where Tom had had "had had", had had "had had had had had had had had 
had had had had". "Had had had had had had had had had had had had" was the
incorrect response.


Thank you all very much for playing the NEW Dating Game, and we hope to see
you all again soon.  Bye Bye!



You can go to the next message now.



That's probably 'n' for 'next' or something like that..






Anytime.





Take the hint.



Fine, don't, see if I care.


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