Also Seen in a Letter

Together we welcomed a Boy Scout group who brought in rabbits and made cages for them out of bamboo, a new missionary family from Texas, and a team of eight from Korea.

Introducing the garden path sentence. The most obvious/immediate reading of the above is that the Boy Scout group made cages out of bamboo, an unsuspecting southern family, and a bunch of Asians.

Never underestimate the be-preparedness of Boy Scouts!

Ok. [deep breath]. I think I can go back to reading that letter now, and I think I’m going to change the order of who got welcomed so that the Boy Scouts and their rabbits are last.

Recent Entries

Who's on first?
I’m going through the settings of a hard-core E-Mail program, and came across this lovely setting: Copy To Address to…
USPS Extreme Cost-Saving Measures
In the July 2010 edition of the PCC Insider (a USPS publication) is found the following statement: There are 26,000…
At 1:15am this morning
At a hotel, after a day of eventful travel and 3.5 hours of sleep the night before, it’s (almost) needless…
My Amazon.com Wish List