After hearing me bemoan my horrible grammar and punctuation at work today, editor Chris Bodan was kind enough to loan me "The Well-Tempered Sentence." Subtitled "A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed," it illustrates various uses of punctuation with absurd and disturbing examples such as the title of this post.
Other favorites include:
He wanted to eat her peachy, creamy complexion with his souvenir spoon from Yellowstone park.
Dear me, how you have sacrificed your ethereal beauty for a life of greed and smut.
Come, please, and bring your brother's wife.
Visions, on the one hand, devour my brain; hyenas, on the other, feed on yours.
LIBRARIANS #107 "Rule of Three" Answer Post
9 years ago
4 comments:
Dear smut, have your greed for a beauty of me and sacrificed how ethereal you life.
pls.
I'm actually quite surprised I hadn't come across that before. For some reason I've been getting peculiar books on grammar and manners as gifts fairly regularly since high school.
Good deal.
you might also want to try Eats, Shoots, and Leaves. which is hilarious although slightly less inappropriate.
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