Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 12, 2018

where can one find Mr. McCormack’s book? could Powell’s in Portland, Oregon have a copy?

Is the model called Leaning Latte?

In reference to “Solar Bones”, at Amazon.com, it appears to be the ramblings of the writer, and ends on page 217 with the F-word.

Now my old English teacher would really flip out over that. Run on sentences really made her mad.

The leaning tower is not quite right; the bottom cup should be leaning too.

But the coffee cup leaning tower was banned because of the plastic straw on top.

I was a little disappointed in the margins.

The iBook still costs $16.99

I would like to purchase a bottle of the eau de nightcrawler, please. :o]

In an English class, we were challenged to write as long a sentence, using correct grammar and spelling of course, as we could. As each student announced the number of words they had, each higher number was cheered. I was second to last. The highest so far had been 72 words, and the class was ready to announce the winner, until they got to me. I said “256 and still going.” I finished my “I am writing a long sentence” sentence and turned it in with 273 words. I got an A minus, since I didn’t have time to proofread or re-write it.

The point is that’s it’s tougher with grammar, and making sense, and trying to be interesting, to compose long sentences.

Oh so he used a lot of commas instead of periods.

“Perfectly detailed”; I get a kick out of phrases like that.

Don’t ever talk to Mike on your cellphone if you have limited minutes.

Earthworm was a big hit with all the catfish.

Rather begs a question. What does earthworm smell like?

I’ve been wondering what Don Demeters been up to lately.O

Just one single sentence. Over and over again.

“All work and no play makes Homer something something.”

Judging from the sample on Amazon, it is indeed stream-of-consciousness free-associative rambling that avoids lapsing even momentarily into a sentence. Not a 217-page sentence, then, but 217 pages without a sentence.

“he just kept talking in one long, incredibly unbroken sentence moving from topic to topic it was really quite hypnotic…”

There is a stylistic precedent in James Joyce’s “Ulysses”, which contains some very, very long sentences, that do make sense – eventually.

I have that swimming pool perfume! You find it in the laundry aisle in big huge jugs!

Does a pregnant pause result from a lack of periods.