[Ads-l] A too-soon crashblossom (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Laurence Horn]

So there were three zombies setting out after the whale-watching boat that was carrying a bunch of sinks?  I'm with the zombies--there's just too much multitasking anymore. Let the whale-watching boats watch whales and the sink-carrying boats carry sinks, I say.

LH

> On Oct 27, 2015, at 11:02 AM, Robin Hamilton <robin.hamilton3 at VIRGINMEDIA.COM> wrote:
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> "At least 3 dead after whale watching boat carrying 27 sinks"
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> <<
> From: Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
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> So let me get this straight.  There was a whale, and he was watching a boat carrying 27 of something, and the whale sank?
>>> 
> 
> Three of the 27 passengers on the boat were so startled by the sight of the sinking whale, that they fell over the side, and drowned.  (Reuters ?)
> 
> [The punctuation in my expansion is rhetorical rather than logical or syntactic.  RH.] 
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