This is a cool riddle, which my Maths teacher taught our class, 25 years ago. I still remember it and find it very cool.
Can you create a perfectly valid English sentence, which makes perfect sense, but which contains the word "and" in it, five times consecutively in a row ?
"Something-or-other and and and and and something-else."
Let's see if anyone else knows the answer to this one.
I'll post the answer in a couple of days.
(Dedicated to Mr Quick, my excellent Maths teacher from Tavistock College, Devon, England.)
Answer
I've also heard it before :)
Let's say we have a store owner and his clerk. The store owner want the clerk to make a sign for the shop, which has the name (for example): "Toys And Puzzles".
So, the clerk makes the sign and presents it to the owner.
The owner thinks the spacing isn't really good. It currently looks something like:Toys And Puzzles
but he wanted it to look more like:Toys And Puzzles
So he says to the clerk:
"The spacing between Toys and And and And and Puzzles should be a bit larger. Could you please fix that?"
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