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A Thousand Words (or perhaps just two)

I had to write a thousand words today. I'm preparing a submission for a conference. You have to write 1,000 words about your presentation. I'm preparing one about why we changed to C# from Java for our first language.I can do it in two words: "It's better". But in a 1,000 it is a little more tricky. 

The work followed my usual pattern for these efforts. Great difficulty in getting the first 100 words out. Then something like a tap turns on in my head and before I know it I find I've got 1,500 of the blighters and I haven't got as far as the conclusion yet. Cue lots of editing (but I save the wordy version because - you never know) to get it down to the smaller number. It is not quite finished yet, but at least now I have enough to be going on with.

As for this week's puzzle, an oldie but a goodie involving words. Write me a completely correct sentance in english which contains five consecutive occurances of the word "and".

posted on Thursday, October 21, 2004 10:08 PM by RobMiles

# @ Friday, October 22, 2004 1:34 AM

for your puzzle... the inkeeper turned to the signwriter and said: " the words fox and and and and and hounds are too close together, can you distance them more please" :)

Catif

# @ Friday, October 22, 2004 3:22 AM

wahhhh that's a hard one!

jasin14

# @ Friday, October 22, 2004 1:14 PM

No correct sentence can have five consecutive and and and and and becoz and is a conjuction...;)

agurha

# @ Saturday, October 23, 2004 4:31 PM

Good luck on the submission. Where are you hoping to present?

AlfredTwo


 
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