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debka_notion ([personal profile] debka_notion) wrote2005-01-05 09:49 pm

Newpaper Double Entendre of the Day

I saw this ad in the local paper, and was quite puzzled for a while as to why that would be good incentive:

"Advertise your car till it sells for only $20"

I'd put the much needed comma after "car", rather than before "for". Oops. But it was funny- and quite handy when I realized what it really was trying to say.

[identity profile] debka-notion.livejournal.com 2005-01-06 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
It's more that we connect any snetence bit to the closest thing that it can be attached to most easily. [livejournal.com profile] tirerim below has a good explanation, actually having real instruction in these things, versus my one intro class, from which I'm forgetting the appropriate terminology right now.