[Ads-l] ambiguities

[Parish, James]

A recent tweet began, "Getting ready to go live with :name:". It was 
only on a second reading that I realized that "live" was an adjective, 
not a verb.

Jim Parish

On 11/18/2018 8:48 AM, James A. Landau wrote:
> Sign at a toolbooth:  State Police Enforce Toll Violations
>
> A local department stores sells "Women's skorts"
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> Heard yesterday:  "She fell in her bathroom and landed in the hospital"
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> At a bar mitzvah yesterday the bar mitzvah, giving his today-I-am-a-fountain-pen speech said, "I would like to thank my parents for my being here" (later in the speech it became clear he was thanking his parents for giving him a religious education).
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> - Jim Landau
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> PS: minor QOTY candidate: a sign (according to a Facebook message posted outside the US Capitol):
> WE FLIP
> HOUSES
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> 1-555-DEM-OCRATS
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