• @BluesF
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    96 months ago

    The owner of a fish and chips shop in Blackpool was having a sign made. The sign painter drew a mock up, and showed it to the shop owner, but it was a little cramped. The shop owner asked the sign painter to “leave a little more space between fish and and and and and chips.”

    Realising how funny it sounded he said, “wait, no, write that down! I can call my shop that!” The sign painte diligently drew up another draft, but again it was a little cramped. The shop owner, exasperated, said “no, now we need more space between fish and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and chips!”

    He paused, and his face lit up, “write that down!” And so te sign painter…

    • @[email protected]
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      46 months ago

      No matter how many times I read this it makes no sense, why so many ands the first time?

      • @[email protected]
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        6 months ago

        A more detailed version of the sentence would be:

        We need more space between the word fish & the word and, & the word and & the word chips

        3 of the "and"s are the literal actual word “and”, while the other two are referring to the word “and” on the sign.

      • @whereisk
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        16 months ago

        A comma after the first two ands would make things clearer.

    • @Sam_Bass
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      16 months ago

      Like ands through the hourglass, so are the days of lives