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> committed it by coincidence were sentenced to death So they sentenced themselves to death with an unfortunate sentence structure.
by dspillett 7y ago
> committed it by coincidence were sentenced to death
So they sentenced themselves to death with an unfortunate sentence structure.
- d33 7y ago...the sentenced sentenced themselves to a death sentence with an unfortunate sentence structure?
- namelosw 7y agoThat's a good one. My English is not sufficient to come up with this. There's also a Chinese pun story[0] with 92 characters with the same sound but different tone. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_Den https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_...
- zhoujianfu 7y agoI believe the correct joke is simply: So they sentenced themselves to death.
- dspillett 7y agoProbably, I have a tendency to overcomplicate things, particularly when explaining or otherwise talking to others, which can really wreck jokes...
- _underfl0w_ 7y agoTalk about a death sentence
- rv-de 7y agoThey literally did.
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