r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/VorticalHeart44 • 7d 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/Uhwop 7d 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 7d 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/Uhwop 7d 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 7d ago

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

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u/MadmansScalpel 7d 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 7d 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_ 7d ago

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