On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:08:39 -0700, el Gary Wooding punched in:


Snip the OP's and Abrasha' posts with punctuation mistakes.
Which those two posts is being replied to here is not clear.


Have you ever heard of William Hartson who, many years ago, used to
write a column in "The Express" (a UK newspaper) under the name of
Beachcomber, and published the following tale...


Snip Harston's shaggy dog story about misplaced punctuation.

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Twisted syntax is sometimes
worse than a misplaced comma
because it makes
the reader's job even harder.

Let's try a cleanup:
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Have you heard of William Hartson?
Long ago he wrote a column for
the UK newspaper "The Express" under
the name "Beachcomber."
Here is one of his tales:
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An ambiguity remains whether "Beachcomber" is
Harston's pseudonym, the name of his column,
or the name of the particular tale in question.