I did once read a triple “had” in a book that appeared grammatically acceptable. It went something like, “He’d had little experience with this phenomenon, and what experience he had had had been forgettable.”
« Shī Shì shí shī shǐ »
Shíshì shīshì Shī Shì, shì shī, shì shí shí shī.
Shì shíshí shì shì shì shī.
Shí shí, shì shí shī shì shì.
Shì shí, shì Shī Shì shì shì.
Shì shì shì shí shī, shì shǐ shì, shǐ shì shí shī shìshì.
Shì shí shì shí shī shī, shì shíshì.
Shíshì shī, Shì shǐ shì shì shíshì.
Shíshì shì, Shì shǐ shì shí shì shí shī.
Shí shí, shǐ shí shì shí shī, shí shí shí shī shī.
Shì shì shì shì.
Which means:
« Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den »
In a stone den was a poet called Shi, who was a lion addict, and had resolved to eat ten lions.
He often went to the market to look for lions.
At ten o’clock, ten lions had just arrived at the market.
At that time, Shi had just arrived at the market.
He saw those ten lions, and using his trusty arrows, caused the ten lions to die.
He brought the corpses of the ten lions to the stone den.
The stone den was damp. He asked his servants to wipe it.
After the stone den was wiped, he tried to eat those ten lions.
When he ate, he realized that these ten lions were in fact ten stone lion corpses.
Try to explain this matter.
Ha! They swiped that from a joke in Roddy Doyle’s Commitments. Before they joined the Commitments, a couple of the guys were in a band called And And And, and they were contemplating whether to put an exclamation point after the second “and.”
brewha, while Ambihelical Hexnut had had “had had had had had had had had had had had”, had had “had had”; “had had had had had had had had had had had” made her say “bravo”.
In my neighborhood, instead of ice cream trucks, we have Man-wich vans. (Man-wiches are a brand of Sloppy Joe’s) Oddly, we often have several competing Man-wich vans arrive at the same time. What is even more strange, is all the men who drive the vans are dressed up as witches! When I hear their bells ringing and am in the mood for a Man-wich, I step outside, and am forced to ask myself,
"Man, which man-witch Man-wich man which man’s which man-witch Man-wich van?
