For all the english nerds

[Coldkiwi]

Right... This is especially for the nerdy english types and their irritating counterparts who insist on correcting any and all KB members grammar!! (oh and anyone else who likes a challenge)

If you've seen this before, don't post the answer straight away because there are some potentially entertaining permutations in that sentance!

THE CHALLENGE

using any normal punctuation that you like (hyphens, Capital Letters, commas, full stops, speech marks, semi-colons, whatever) you need to make this string of words make sense. (The only clue I'm giving out at the moment is that Tom and Harry are the only names.)



where tom had had had harry had had had had had had had had the teachers approval

[White trash]

WTF?! Are you mental, CK? Now my brain hurts twice as much.

[duckman]

Does the guy have a stammer (or is that studder)??? :innocent:

[dhunt]

Does have having 2 threads have anything to do with it or is that just to through us off.

[NC]

:beer: :mellow:

[duckman]

Hmmmmm how about

tom had harry where the teachers had had approval .... er.. had had had had had had had .... had :pinch:

[NC]

Hmmmmm how about

tom had harry where the teachers had had approval .... er.. had had had had had had had .... had :pinch:


You almost, had had had had had had had....had? It there for a moment :msn-wink:

[Coldkiwi]

Hmmmmm how about

tom had harry where the teachers had had approval .... er.. had had had had had had had .... had :pinch:

oh yeah... and the words have to stay in the original order! :doh:

I had a couple of attempts that got a bit close.. but no more hints yet!... this is too entertaining :2thumbsup:

[moko]

Right... This is especially for the nerdy english types and their irritating counterparts who insist on correcting any and all KB members grammar!!


Shouldn`t that be English with a capital "E"?
AND surely you mean the types who are nerdy about English as these tend to be Kiwis,I dont think I`ve ever seen any English posters correcting any poster`s grammar,until now that is,therefore there are no "nerdy English types" here.

[Coldkiwi]

Does have having 2 threads have anything to do with it or is that just to through us off.

oops... no, thats just my incompetance at typing... I had a last minute typo spotted after I'd hit the submit button and it must've registered twice

[badlieutenant]

Where Tom Had had "had" Harry Had, had Had "had" Had?. Had Had had the teachers approval?
sort of like this u mean ?

[Wenier]

where tom had had, had harry had had had had had had had had, the teachers approval

Thats probably completely wrong but i dont no wut im doing grammar wuts that. have u noticed that had doesnt seem to be spelt right when u keep reading had over and over.

[MikeL]

Where Tom had had "had", Harry had had "had had"; "had had" had had the teacher's approval.

[MikeL]

Next, please.

[texmo]

where tom had had had harry had had had had had had had had the teachers
Thats insane where is Hitcher isnt he the grammar police?

[riffer]

Where Tom had had "had", Harry had had "had had"; "had had" had had the teacher's approval.
That's pretty good, Mike. It had me stumped. :thud:

[scumdog]

Hey, no fair, the original is taking the piss out of my way of talking when I'm freezing my nuts off :shake:

[Hitcher]

Where Tom had had "had", Harry had had "had had"; "had had" had had the teacher's approval.
A+. Clearly shows what can be achieved if one had had time on one's hands...

[Marmoot]

Amazing what you can find on Google :mellow:
I'd better not post it here then :blah:

[Artifice]

along these lines
Where Tom had had, Had Harry had had had, had had had, Had had the teachers' (approval). We wouldn't be in this fine mess.

theres just 3 hads too many for my liking.
the problem is you can interchange 'had' with if, did, have, blah...

hope this helps.
of course if Had was a name,...
Where Tom had had Had, Harry had Had. Had had had Had, Had had the teachers approval. :P had also had a very sore bottom.

[TwoSeven]

Actually, since you didnt say what form of english we had to use ie. standard, international, oxford, proper, american or general (local dialect).

I shall use the latter. In which case the correct way of using the words is the way it was described in the original post - as evidence by the fact, that it was successfully used in that post.

:headbang:

[Posh Tourer :P]

Actually, since you didnt say what form of english we had to use ie. standard, international, oxford, proper, american or general (local dialect).

I shall use the latter. In which case the correct way of using the words is the way it was described in the original post - as evidence by the fact, that it was successfully used in that post.

:headbang:

Yes it was used in the first post, but it didnt make any sense. I can write a random combination of letters down, but I cant claim they make sense.....
The organisation of words would have to have some meaning.

[kerryg]

Where Tom Had had "had" Harry Had, had Had "had" Had?. Had Had had the teachers approval?
sort of like this u mean ?


Hey that's GOOD!! :2thumbsup

[Coldkiwi]

Where Tom Had had "had" Harry Had, had Had "had" Had?. Had Had had the teachers approval?
sort of like this u mean ?

LOL! yeah, thats pretty close to what my first attempt was too. I might've thought it was a possible answer except that it came from a mate who works for VERO and it was part of a 'lets get our grammer sorted' drive (sounds like a buckets of fun sort of company eh?) and I knew they wouldn't be that dodgy!

Well done Mike. Figured you might be one of the first to get it :)