Posted by JerryS on May 15, 2017 at 13:17:45 from (104.49.161.5):
In Reply to: Todays funny posted by jon f mn on May 15, 2017 at 05:09:02:
There's some debate as to whether he actually said it, but Winston Churchill supposedly took issue with an editor who awkwardly challenged and corrected one of his sentences to avoid ending a sentence with a preposition. that ended with a preposition.
Legend has it that Churchill responded by writing in the margin, "This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will put."
A common street hustle in New Orleans French Quarter features a hip con man approaching a tourist with the challenge, "I bet you five dollars I can tell you where you got them shoes." The naive tourist thinks, "No way", and takes the bet. The con-dude then says, "You got them shoes on yo' feet, and yo' feet be standin' on Royal Street." Even those victims who are astute enough to understand the difference between the two usages of the word "got" realize that arguing the point with a street-wise but book-dumb hustler is pointless, and they usually pay up, poorer but wiser.
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