HCC/LNHY/LNH/LNH20/ACRA: Looniverse Y #10 (HCC27)
Scott Eiler
seiler at eilertech.com
Mon Feb 27 18:22:04 PST 2012
On 2/27/2012 3:31 AM, Martin Phipps wrote:
> On Feb 27, 12:46 am, Saxon Brenton<saxonbren... at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Martin noted:
>>
>>>> Later that week the coroner, Dr Scon, admitted both Karen Manx and
>>>> Carl Hernandez into the morgue.
>>
>>> Ah what a difference one preposition makes! ("into" rather than "to")
>>
>> ohmygosh. I completely missed that (was hurriedly typing up the last bit
>> of at 10:30 last night, and only gave it a spell check review before
>> posting). Looking over the few sentences on either side of the scene break,
>> I could have had lots of fun playing with peoples' headspaces. Ah well,
>> a lost opportunity, but entirely my own fault.
>
> You're kidding. I thought they were goners. I had to read the
> sentence several times before I realized they were being admitted INTO
> the morgue. I thought _that_ was the surprise, that they weren't
> toast.
I thought INTO the morgue was being dead. I wasn't paying sufficient
attention to the dialog to think otherwise.
--
(signed) Scott Eiler 8{D> -------- http://www.eilertech.com/ ---------
Turns out I'm an anally-fixated oedipal paranoid with
south-of-the-border schizophrenic delusions... But never mind, I've
found me the ideal job. I'm going to run for President!
- Major Honey, scripted by Grant Morrison (that's *Mister* Morrison to
you), Doom Patrol #46, August 1991.
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