Pig joke

**xwhatsit** · 19th November 2006, 23:45

You know, Hitcher, I think that word you corrected (changing `ones' to `one's') is incorrect. Please do excuse me if I'm wrong, but I believe yungatart was correct in the first place (unless she's edited her post and I've misinterpreted your reply).

You're half there. `One' is not one of the special possessive pronouns that don't take apostrophes (yours, its et c), so if that `one's' was being used for a possessive function then your correction would be correct. However, unless I'm totally confused, `ones' was in fact being used as a simple plural pronoun, and not a singular possessive pronoun, so yungatart was correct.

Heheheh it's like correcting the teacher at school...

got nerd?

**Hitcher** · 20th November 2006, 08:43

Originally Posted by xerxesdaphat

got nerd?

Yungatart has corrected her original. And you should be reminded that apostrophes are used to denote possession or contraction. As the "one" in Ms Y's original post neither owned nor contracted, the apostrophe was redundant.

**xwhatsit** · 20th November 2006, 12:54

Originally Posted by xerxesdaphat

(unless she's edited her post and I've misinterpreted your reply)

Whoops, that's exactly what I did.

*blushes*

**<G>** · 8th May 2007, 22:18

PIG HUNTING IN THE NORTHERN TERRITORY.

A Northern Territory aboriginal farm-hand radios back to the
farm manager.

"Bossa, I gotta helluva problem here. I hit a pig with the ute.
The pig's ok but he's stuck in under the bull bar at the front of my
ute and is wriggling & squealing so much I cannot get him out".

The manager says "OK there's a 303 behind the seat. Take it out
and shoot the pig in the head & you'll be able to remove him".

Five minutes later the farm hand calls back. "I did as you said
boss. Took the 303 and shot the pig in the head and removed him from
the bull-bars. No problem there, but I still can't go on."

"Now what's the problem?" raged the manager.

"Well Boss, it's his motor bike. The back wheel and the flashing
blue light is wedged under the right front wheel
arch..................... ?

?Boss, you there boss??