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Skriven 2005-02-14 21:10:44 av Aleksej R. Serdyukov (2:5020/24000)
    Kommentar till text 642 av Everett Hertenstein (2:5020/24000)
Ärende: [FWD] Re: had had ... that that
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14 Feb 05 12:38, Aleksej R. Serdyukov -> Everett Hertenstein:

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ARS>>> sentence which had "had had" had had "had", it would have been
ARS>>> correct.
EH>> I've seen a much longer version of this, but I didn't save it.

ARS> Maybe Google search for "had had had had had had had" will help? ;-)

Damn... I think it's better for me not to search for such phrases, because I
won't understand them:

http://www.jamesphogan.com/bb/content/040100.shtml
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WORD GAMES  Posted on April 1, 2000     Read More of the Humor & Diversions
Topic.

HOW MANY HADS?

Many computer programs have delusions of being smarter than they are. One of
the my spell checker's irritating examples is its flagging of any word that it
finds repeated, which is often intentional and correct. An instance is with
many uses of the word "had," where "had had" is required by the intended tense.
Commenting on this led a friend and me into one of those contests to see who
could compose a valid sentence containing the greatest number of successive
"hads." I finally came up with one containing eleven, which when properly
punctuated makes perfect sense:

In the English language test, Smith, where Jones had had "had," had had "had
had"; "had had" had had the approval of the examiners.

Anybody got a better one?

(And yes, my spell checker just threw a fit when I typed it.)

Note Added May 15, 2000

Okay, somebody outdid me. Aristotle Jones sent me the following (with 12
"hads," to save you counting), which he got from Max and her dad, Ron Read, in
BC, Canada.

"John, where James had had 'HAD HAD', had had 'had had'. 'HAD HAD' had had the
editor's approval."

Note Added August 10, 2002

And then I got this from Scott Ryan, which weighs in at 41.

"Aristotle Jones, where you had had <had had "had," had had "had had"; "had
had"

had had>, had had <had had 'HAD HAD', had had 'had had'. 'HAD HAD' had
had had>had>; <had had 'HAD HAD', had had 'had had'. 'HAD HAD' had had> had
had had>had>had a temporary victory until I wrote to you."

This could obviously be extended indefinitely until every particle in the
universe was pressed into service to encode them ("hadrons"?) The whole
nonsense is therefore, hereby, formally closed.
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