Writing Gooder

I found this recently: a story about how a professor gave his students the sentence, “A woman without her man is nothing.”  I doubt the story is actually true, but as the story goes, the female students and male students had two different ways of punctuating it.

The men in the class wrote it as: “A woman, without her man, is nothing.”

But the women wrote: “A woman: without her, man is nothing.”

Interesting how punctuation can change the meaning of just one sentence, eh?  Just a few grammatical marks can turn the sentence into something absolutely different.

So I’m going to kick off something new: every week I’ll give a new sentence for people to punctuate.  You can add periods, commas, capitalize words, whatever.  So here’s the first:

Among dogs ducks meet discussing quarters to a mouse on wheels

Dear John,

I want a man who knows what love is all about. You are generous, kind, thoughtful. People who are not like you admit to being useless and inferior.  You have ruined me for other men. I yearn for you. I have no feelings whatsoever when we’re apart. I can be forever happy – will you let me be yours?

Gloria

Dear John,

I want a man who knows what love is. All about you are generous, kind, thoughtful people, who are not like you. Admit to being useless and inferior.  You have ruined me. For other men, I yearn. For you, I have no feelings whatsoever. When we’re apart, I can be forever happy. Will you let me be?

Yours, Gloria

Source: Writing Jokes

To those in America, of course!  (and apparently Japan…?)

Tomorrow is the fourth of July!  Also known as eat, drink and set fire to flying objects day!   But, we should all have a little fun knowledge to share while waiting for the fireworks so remember some of these:

-31 places nationwide have “Liberty” in their name.  Iowa has the most with 4.

-74+ million americans said they took part in a barbeque last year. 

-Fun facts about your barbeque food? 1-in-6 chance your burgers came from Texas.  1-in-4 chance your hotdog and ribs came from Iowa. 75% chance your lettuce came from California. 95% chance your ketchup also came from Cali. 1-in-3 chance your baked beans came from North Dakota.

-$207 Million worth of fireworks were imported from China in 2007.  $14.9 million worth were exported from the US, Japan bought the most.

-$7.9 Million worth of American Flags imported in 2002.  It was $51.7 Million in 2001. It was only $4.7 Million in 2007.

-Japan buys the most US Flags.

 

Feel enlightened yet?  I’m certainly ready for a bbq!