The lads commission a new sign for the garage:
Klick and Klack’s Auto Repair.
Reviewing the work before mounting it, one of them objects to a small imperfection with a grammatically correct remark containing the same word five times consecutively. (Holy moly!)
And the remark was . . . ?
Nifty Linguistic Puzzler from “Car Talk”
- Slava
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Re: Nifty Linguistic Puzzler from “Car Talk”
And the answer is...?
AAAGGGHHH, the tension's killing me!
AAAGGGHHH, the tension's killing me!
Life is like playing chess with chessmen who each have thoughts and feelings and motives of their own.
Re: Nifty Linguistic Puzzler from “Car Talk”
Suffer no longer.
Accounts vary on which brother commented that . . .
“It’s pretty good, but the spaces between
‘Klick’ and ‘and’ and ‘and’ and ‘Klack’
are not the same.”
I hope that does not disappoint.
Accounts vary on which brother commented that . . .
“It’s pretty good, but the spaces between
‘Klick’ and ‘and’ and ‘and’ and ‘Klack’
are not the same.”
I hope that does not disappoint.
- Slava
- Great Grand Panjandrum
- Posts: 8145
- Joined: Thu Sep 28, 2006 9:31 am
- Location: Finger Lakes, NY
Re: Nifty Linguistic Puzzler from “Car Talk”
And the pain is gone.
Well put together. It needs a visual aid, though, to make it work even better. Which would get auto-corrected out by this site's robots.
Well put together. It needs a visual aid, though, to make it work even better. Which would get auto-corrected out by this site's robots.
Life is like playing chess with chessmen who each have thoughts and feelings and motives of their own.
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