Anybody else have a problem with this sentence?

Post by **Dale** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 7:38 pm

I didn't make this up. It's Fox News syndication service.

RICHMOND, Virginia — Police say a man sought revenge against his ex-girlfriend by leaving homemade DVDs of her performing sex acts on car windshields throughout the area.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,256360,00.html

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 7:42 pm

I'm ok with the sentence, but I find the image evoked a bit odd.

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 7:43 pm

Uh, yeah, the way it's written it would seem there were a lot of dirty windshields in Richmond. But, it's Fox news so why am I not suprised?

Post by **Dale** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 7:43 pm

Yeah. That's the problem with the sentence.

Congratulations · Post by **Congratulations** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 7:50 pm

O Participle! How you dangle so!

Lambchop · Post by **Lambchop** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 8:10 pm

Well, if you ask me, any female who'd do such a thing and let her boyfriend videotape it deserves what she gets. It just goes to show that you should keep your perversions to yourself.

That girl would be a lot happier today if she'd kept that aspirin between her knees like her mama told her. At least it would have kept her out of the garage.

Tsk.

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 8:13 pm

That girl would be a lot happier today if she'd kept that aspirin between her knees like her mama told her. At least it would have kept her out of the garage.

....and off those windshields.

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 9:13 pm

Years ago my mother said something I'll never forget.

I called her on the phone. We talked for a little while, and then she exclaimed, "I saw three deer today, driving across the countryside!"

Best wishes,
Jerry

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 9:56 pm

I doubt that this woman's apparent total sexual abandon is the big secret her ex-boyfriend seems to think it is. Had the town found her antics to be disturbing, I'm sure something would have been done about it before now. He could have saved himself time and trouble. Who is going to watch re-runs on a DVD when obviously you've only got to sit comfortably in the front seat of your car to see the live show?

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 11:02 pm

Jerry Freeman wrote:Years ago my mother said something I'll never forget.

I called her on the phone. We talked for a little while, and then she exclaimed, "I saw three deer today, driving across the countryside!"

Best wishes,
Jerry

If you actually went on to answer as though you'd bought the unintended reading, that would be a textbook example of what logicians call amphiboly, as would be Dale's original sentence. I'm not sure anybody ever gets tricked by these grammatical ambiguities, although it's a stock in trade of comedians.

dfernandez77 · Post by **dfernandez77** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:42 am

Jerry Freeman wrote:Years ago my mother said something I'll never forget.

I called her on the phone. We talked for a little while, and then she exclaimed, "I saw three deer today, driving across the countryside!"

Best wishes,
Jerry

Did you ask what was on the deer's windshield?

I thought amphiboly was a board game for salamanders.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:19 am

Good golly....you think an editor would have caught that one.

pipersgrip · Post by **pipersgrip** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:47 am

Lambchop wrote:Well, if you ask me, any female who'd do such a thing and let her boyfriend videotape it deserves what she gets. It just goes to show that you should keep your perversions to yourself.

That girl would be a lot happier today if she'd kept that aspirin between her knees like her mama told her. At least it would have kept her out of the garage.

Tsk.

i agree with you completely, although that is pretty crooked for a cop to do something like that. they both deserve what they are going to get.

pipersgrip · Post by **pipersgrip** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:50 am

Lambchop wrote:Well, if you ask me, any female who'd do such a thing and let her boyfriend videotape it deserves what she gets. It just goes to show that you should keep your perversions to yourself.

That girl would be a lot happier today if she'd kept that aspirin between her knees like her mama told her. At least it would have kept her out of the garage.

Tsk.

i agree with you completely, although that is pretty crooked for a cop to do something like that. they both deserve what they are going to get.

dwinterfield · Post by **dwinterfield** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:57 am

[quote="Dale"... performing sex acts on car windshields throughout the area.[/quote]

Just doesn't seem safe to me. What if she had ot come to a sudden stop?

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