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Desert Orchid

Desert Orchid

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Does anyone remember or, by any remote chance, have archived the sentence containing several (13?) prepositions together? I think Brian H put it up so it must be a couple of years ago.
 
...or the 11+ instances of 'had'?

Thanks, Gareth, that was it but I thought there were more prepositions than that.
 
The 'had' one, isn't it something like:

Although Billy had had 'had', 'had had' had been the right answer.

Logically, you could include any number of 'hads' within the quotes, if the question being answered were 'how many consecutive hads can you have in a sentence', like some kind of recursive riddle.
 
Billy, because where he should have had "had had", had had "had had had", had had a mark deducted.

(Only ten, after all.)
 
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"Do you know the one with the five "and"s?"

Think it was more than five, but I remember being asked the question in a Club Quiz Competiton around 40 years ago, and, bear in mind it wasn't a written quiz, how the hell were you supposed to answer the question? and I don't think we as a team understood the question.:blink:
 
Well, a sign painter was ticked off for getting the layout of the pub's sign wrong; the pub was called "The Hen and Chickens" and he had put too much space between Hen and and and and and Chickens ...
 
Mrussell: It was something like "And and and, and and and and" - 7 - if I recall it at all. Stands in corner, 'D' cap at the ready...
 

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