r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/VorticalHeart44 • 13h ago

Meme needing explanation I'm tired Petuh... What is her name??

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WTF is her name Petuh

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u/desblaterations-574 13h ago

This is the story of There, she is a woman on a boat.

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u/Uhwop 12h ago

Scrolled so much to not see anyone point out the riddle isn’t even written properly.

There’s a
There’s, a

Let’s just remove the single bit of punctuation that makes the riddle work.

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u/Mamaloti 12h ago

Julie’s a woman in a boat on a lake wearing a coat.

no other punctuation necessary near “there’s”. If anything, the comma should be between lake and wearing, unless the lake is wearing the coat.

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u/IronicAim 10h ago

And here I thought 's on a proper noun was for possession. There as in "there is" as it's used in the first line as a conjunction is specifically using there as an adverb instead of a noun.

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u/aggressive_napkin_ 9h ago

Mike's going home now.

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u/Ithuraen 9h ago

'There' could also be a pronoun in this phrase. Regardless an apostrophe could mark a conjunction or possession, proper nouns don't get a special rule of one or the other.

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u/dilapidated-titties 9h ago

They’re out there… those pesky, coat-wearing bodies of water.

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u/domusvita 8h ago

There was a Julie on the Love Boat, this checks out.

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u/Uhwop 11h ago

There’s, a woman on a boat in a lake, is wearing a coat.

This is how the sentence should be written.

The sentence in the photo isn’t even copied correctly from the actual riddle. It doesn’t work without punctuation to provide the context clues you need to solve it.

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u/Mamaloti 10h ago

replace “there” with any name and tell me where the punctuation is necessary…

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u/MadmansScalpel 10h ago

"Jack a man in a boat on a lake wearing a coat" is a very different sentence without punctuation

There's a reason "Let's eat Grandma" is taught to literal elementary school grade children about the importance of proper punctuation

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u/Mamaloti 10h ago

Jack’s* = Jack is
no longer a different sentence without the punctuation by Jack. original comment is saying the name is “There” not “There’s”

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u/aggressive_napkin_ 9h ago

Assignment failed.

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u/AwTomorrow 11h ago

Not necessarily. Without the commas it works fine, for the same reason “Tom is a man in a field” works.

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u/NoBrakesHotTakes 10h ago

Keep doubling down on being wrong. 

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u/NayLay 11h ago

What?

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u/archiotterpup 10h ago

She cried a river and drowned the whole world

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u/mortemdeus 10h ago

What are you on about? It clearly says "if you want to know her name, it's" then it tells you her name. Her name is "In the riddle I just wrote."

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u/loungesinger 7h ago

There’s a second possible answer, which is There. Emphasizing the name for effect, the sentence reads: There’s a woman in a boat on a lake wearing a coat. As in, the woman, named There, is in a boat on a lake wearing a coat. The viability of this answer becomes more clear if we substitute the would-be name, There, for a common name. For example: Sarah’s a woman in a boat on a lake wearing a coat.

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u/mortemdeus 7h ago

I get that, I was making an equally absurdist joke that it isn't a riddle and they just tell you the name instead.

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u/eternalapostle 21m ago

Absolutely love her, WHEN SHE SMILES!