March 07, 2006

1) David said (on 03/ 7/06 at 12:22 PM):

Nope, there is indeed nothing like it. And that has to be one of the longest sentences I have ever read.

2) Kenny said (on 03/ 7/06 at 12:40 PM):

Wait, that happened to you too?!

3) Polly Tropia said (on 03/ 7/06 at 01:21 PM):

Now, was she only a girl you knew in college, or was she a girl you knew in college, say, church choir?

4) birdfarm said (on 03/ 7/06 at 04:39 PM):

Someone you knew in college??? That would be the college we both attended so.... who?

Let me rephrase that... WHO!?!?!?!?

C'mon, it was on national TV, or some kind of TV, so it's not like it's a secret!!! You HAVE TO TELL ME!!!!

Oh my god! I am dying of curiosity!

Do you hear me?

DYING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5) birdfarm said (on 03/ 7/06 at 04:41 PM):

P.S. Have you considered sending this in to the Class Notes section of our alumni magazine? It would sure liven up those tedious reams of birth announcements from people I don't remember.

6) Brian, the 646 Guy said (on 03/ 7/06 at 04:47 PM):

And what's the name of the movie so I can make sure that I catch the repeat of it for the camp value of singing fruit having sex....

7) chris said (on 03/ 7/06 at 05:35 PM):

That was extremely poor grammar. SHAME ON YOU!

8) birdfarm said (on 03/ 7/06 at 07:05 PM):

It's too late to send this item in to the Class Notes section of our alumni magazine... it has already been featured in the campus newspaper, here.

Brian, according to the above-mentioned article, the name of the film is "The Naughty Garden." The article also notes that the alumna's "interest in pornography was fostered by Harvard’s openness towards female sensuality."

I've gotta say... now there's a sentence that would only appear in a Harvard publication.

9) birdfarm said (on 03/ 7/06 at 07:09 PM):

I just have one more thing to add (having finally finished the article I linked to above):

"'Naughty Cherubs' and 'The Naughty Garden'--the first two installments in the musical spanking trilogy--will be available with 'Naughty Chickens' in September 2004."

Perhaps someone out there is rushing right out to the neighborhood video store this minute...

10) Apartment 604 said (on 03/ 7/06 at 08:25 PM):

While it may have been a whopper of a sentence, it was in fact grammatically correct.

11) chris said (on 03/ 8/06 at 04:14 AM):

It was a run-on sentence. That's poor grammar, so ner :P

12) anapestic said (on 03/ 8/06 at 08:06 AM):

While one can certainly argue that the run-on sentence is to be avoided in certain kinds of writing, such as that memo to your superiors about the increase in fruit-related sex crimes, it is not per se bad grammar, and there are clearly contexts such as the instant case where the writer is describing a surreal experience that occurred during, and indeed extended, a period of sleeplessness where the run-on sentence is so appropriate that to not use it would be wrong.

13) David said (on 03/ 8/06 at 11:52 AM):

anapestic: Very clever.

14) Jeffrey said (on 03/ 8/06 at 11:57 AM):

Actually, that sentence is long, but it's not technically a run-on sentence by some definitions (though others define a run-on as one that just goes on and on). There are conjunctions used in all the appropriate places (*that's their function*--sing it with me!). However, it does go on a bit. Entering your Faulkner stage, my dear?

15) Apartment 604 said (on 03/ 8/06 at 12:33 PM):

Technically, a "run-on sentence" is defined as two or more main clauses that are joined together without proper punctuation - and in this posting, all the punctuation checks out. Indeed, from what I've read on this blog over the past couple of years, I'd be shocked if Dr. Faustus used improper punctuation. Hasn't he dumped guys over that?

16) Mush said (on 03/ 8/06 at 12:49 PM):

That was a stellar run-on! *clap clap clap*

17) Aidan said (on 03/ 8/06 at 01:25 PM):

Is it appropriate to comment on comments? I must say, Anapestic may well have written one of the finest run-on sentences ever. I'm not even going to try. I'm in awe.

I, too, would love to know the name of the movie. I didn't go to college with you, but the movie sounds like something Charles Ludlum would have written!

Gian stuffed-fruit sex. Would that be a sub-genre of the food-grunge fetish? Or would that be plushie? I will want to be well informed when I speak of this; and I shall.

18) Sartre_jnr said (on 03/ 9/06 at 02:04 AM):

Clearly Faustus is experimenting with stream of consciousness a la James Joyce and Virginia Woolfe. What a lark, what a plunge! It also suddenly occurs to me that all blogging could be stream of consciousness. Hmmm, I'll have to go re read Mrs Dalloway to find out. Moreover, we should be grateful - the last chapter of Ulysses by James Joyce has NO punctuation, despite being in stream of consciousness.

19) Craig said (on 03/ 9/06 at 05:18 PM):

Much prefer your pointless yet humorous observations about the mundane than your indignant and obscenity-laced yet also pointless political outbursts.

20) jim said (on 03/ 9/06 at 08:50 PM):

What he said.

21) chris said (on 03/ 9/06 at 10:44 PM):

Faustus, you should be SO proud of me for making everyone argue about grammar and punctuation *AGAIN*!!

I still maintain the post was a run-on sentence because it had multiple clauses which could have functioned well as independent sentences.

Btw, to everyone above, I said the post showed *poor* grammar, not *bad* grammar. They aren't the same thing. So double ner :P

22) Lynn in Tucson said (on 03/15/06 at 01:11 PM):

Ohmygawd! That happened to me once, too! A guy I did summer stock with once upon a time showed up on the Spice channel.

Not that I was watching the Spice channel....

Never mind.

23) Davis McDavis said (on 03/20/06 at 03:09 PM):

I'm still waiting for the day I "accidently" run across your porn video, in which, I should hope, the fucking was not simulated. Hee hee...