Sun 4 May 2008
Not friendly milk as such
Posted by jangari under Linguistics
[5] Comments
…but here is an equally improbable sentence that my housemate uttered this morning1:
I had the foresight to turn my phone off before I passed out, the wrong way around, on my sandwich.
Gold.
- I refer to the ‘tricky linguistics‘ sketch from A bit of Fry and Laurie

May 4th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Is there a right way to pass out on a sandwich?
May 4th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
I LOVE stuff like this. All of my favorite improbable lines are uttered by students in the hallways of the community college where I teach. The last great one was “I left soups and sauces the other day with your wisk up my shirt….:
May 5th, 2008 at 9:12 am
Mrs Chili, I’m having some difficulty even parsing that one. Classic.
Iain, touché.
May 5th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
May 16th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Poor unary