For all the english nerds

**Coldkiwi** · 14th September 2004, 17:08

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** · 14th September 2004, 17:11

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

**duckman** · 14th September 2004, 17:12

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

**dhunt** · 14th September 2004, 17:16

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

NC · 14th September 2004, 17:17

**duckman** · 14th September 2004, 17:22

Hmmmmm how about

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

NC · 14th September 2004, 17:26

Originally Posted by duckman

Hmmmmm how about

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

You almost, had had had had had had had....had? It there for a moment

**Coldkiwi** · 14th September 2004, 17:49

Originally Posted by duckman

Hmmmmm how about

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

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

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

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**moko** · 14th September 2004, 17:51

Originally Posted by Coldkiwi

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** · 14th September 2004, 17:53

Originally Posted by dhunt

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** · 14th September 2004, 18:01

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

**Wenier** · 14th September 2004, 18:40

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.