I'll answer that with a question...

“What happens to a company if somebody takes a boss away? I will answer your question with a question: it's like what happens to a chicken when you take its head away. It dies...unless you find a new head. I need to see which one of these people have the skills to be a chicken head.” Michael Scott; Dunder Mifflin


So, new Office tonight, huh?


Yep...it's another hour-long episode...which really just means two half-hour episodes slapped together without credits in between like last week's.


But what happened last week? Are Jim and Pam together or what?


It's official....but secret. Jim and Pam are now together, but nobody except the documentary crew knows about it. In other news, Michael hit Meredith with his car, Dwight euthanized Angela's cat and Toby won the Fun Run.


Is that it?


What else were you expecting?


The answer to yesterday's thing.


Okay, okay....since you asked so nicely. The answer (as correctly stated by Willy yesterday) is as follows:
James, while John had had "had," had had "had had." "Had had" had had a better effect on the teacher.

Presumably, they had turned in a grammar assignment of some sort--John wrote a sentence in past tense, and James used past perfect, past perfect being preferable, at least to their teacher.

In addition, the Buffalo thing...the sentence is a whimsical combination of the 3 uses of the word Buffalo. The City, the animal, and the verb meaning "to bully." the sentence, when broken down is a description of the social heirarchy in a herd of Bison. Basically meaning "Bison from Buffalo, New York who are intimidated by other bison in their community also happen to intimidate other bison in their community."

It's kinda like the Buffalo thing...

Punctuate the following so that it make sense: "James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher"


Wha....?


It's another Jeremy's Sametime Status Quiz, left as an exercise for the reader. Get out your grammar books and get cracking. Those of you who are lazy (and you know who you are) should find the answer here tomorrow, but you have no chance at winning a prize.


So there's a prize for getting it right?


Doubtful. If you get it right, and you're within a reasonable distance, and I happen to run into you at any given time near an open cafeteria or Starbucks or something, and you remind me, I may buy you a cup of coffee. If I feel like it.


So what's this Buffalo thing?


It's a somewhat famous logic puzzle about how "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically correct sentence. The proof of that is left as an exercise for the reader. Or Wikipedia.


I found today's blag a little unsatisfying


Well then please enjoy this letter to the editor, courtesy of the Erie Times-News. Figuring out exactly what this guy is talking about is left as an exercise for the reader.


Letter removed at the request of the publisher