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Grammar Cop: Gone, But Not Forgetted

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Defendant: Unidentified Price Chopper employee tasked with honoring Gene's memory.

Count 1: Failure to maintain subject-verb agreement.

Count 2: Rendering grammatical malfeasance permanent with granite.

Count 3: Grammatical malfeasance in the commission of a memorial marker.

Report: Officer had just exited a Price Chopper supermarket when he noticed the marker at the base of a flagpole in the parking lot. After initially remarking on the type of people who would dispose of cigarette butts in such close proximity to a memorial, officer then noticed the infraction and captured it with his iPhone's mediocre camera.

It should be noted that the Officer saved over $2.00 on a half-gallon of milk because he purchased it 125 miles outside of Manhattan.

Fine: $278 and a re-unveiling of a proper marker for Gene.


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Maybe he was a shoeshine guy who was known for giving a light shine.

Posted by: brett | March 25, 2009 1:00 PM

OK, now I feel dumb. What is wrong with it?

'Forever a light shine' is a sentence fragment, but they are acceptable sometimes, right?... Although I'm not sure what it is supposed to mean.

Posted by: Alexander | March 25, 2009 1:59 PM

Try rendering it like this: "33 years of service shine a light forever." You just get some weird effects when word order gets switched up.

Posted by: Sir | March 25, 2009 6:49 PM

Could the cigarette butts be part of the memorial? Maybe Gene was the guy who always gave people a light.

Posted by: Scott | March 26, 2009 10:07 AM

Maybe it was supposed to be "forever a shining light?"

Posted by: MUSEinIN | March 27, 2009 7:16 PM

this is just sad, good thing the guys is dead so he cant see what was done to his grave...

Posted by: vocabulary workshop answers | February 7, 2011 10:01 AM

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