proclaimed the judge, melifluously.
(Make sure to work with the punctuation in preceding posts, sportsfans!)
Wonka’s lawyers assured him
that for enough money
, they could get the
Punctuation Laws revoked, and
reduce his sentence to
consuming 1,764,562,999 Everlasting Gobstoppers,
?
Post 720 ended with a period and close-quotes. Post 721 continued the same sentence.
In play:
but Wonka would have
loosed his Oompaloompas on
the court, were it
not for the awful
No, it didn’t. The full sequence :-
At his trial, however,the Oompa Loompa jury condemned him to incarmelization. “I hereby sentence you to 3,765,876 Doopity Do’s, And a hard-boiled egg.” proclaimed the judge, melifluously.
I rest my case.
In Play:
fact that they were
very naughty eggs indeed,
If that were so, shouldn’t “Proclaimed” be capitalized? Seems a sentence fragment, in any event.
In play:
as The Blawnox Babbler
was famously sued about.
Wonka was libeled as
"an oddball foreign confectioner
with a fetish for
camels and women’s dainties,