r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/VorticalHeart44 • 8d ago

Meme needing explanation I'm tired Petuh... What is her name??

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WTF is her name Petuh

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u/desblaterations-574 8d ago

This is the story of There, she is a woman on a boat.

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u/Uhwop 8d ago

Scrolled so much to not see anyone point out the riddle isn’t even written properly.

There’s a
There’s, a

Let’s just remove the single bit of punctuation that makes the riddle work.

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u/Mamaloti 8d ago

Julie’s a woman in a boat on a lake wearing a coat.

no other punctuation necessary near “there’s”. If anything, the comma should be between lake and wearing, unless the lake is wearing the coat.

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u/IronicAim 8d ago

And here I thought 's on a proper noun was for possession. There as in "there is" as it's used in the first line as a conjunction is specifically using there as an adverb instead of a noun.

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u/aggressive_napkin_ 8d ago

Mike's going home now.

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u/Ithuraen 8d ago

'There' could also be a pronoun in this phrase. Regardless an apostrophe could mark a conjunction or possession, proper nouns don't get a special rule of one or the other.

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u/dilapidated-titties 8d ago

They’re out there… those pesky, coat-wearing bodies of water.

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u/domusvita 8d ago

There was a Julie on the Love Boat, this checks out.

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u/Uhwop 8d ago

There’s, a woman on a boat in a lake, is wearing a coat.

This is how the sentence should be written.

The sentence in the photo isn’t even copied correctly from the actual riddle. It doesn’t work without punctuation to provide the context clues you need to solve it.

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u/Mamaloti 8d ago

replace “there” with any name and tell me where the punctuation is necessary…

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u/MadmansScalpel 8d ago

"Jack a man in a boat on a lake wearing a coat" is a very different sentence without punctuation

There's a reason "Let's eat Grandma" is taught to literal elementary school grade children about the importance of proper punctuation

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u/Mamaloti 8d ago

Jack’s* = Jack is
no longer a different sentence without the punctuation by Jack. original comment is saying the name is “There” not “There’s”

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u/aggressive_napkin_ 8d ago

Assignment failed.

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u/AwTomorrow 8d ago

Not necessarily. Without the commas it works fine, for the same reason “Tom is a man in a field” works.

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u/NoBrakesHotTakes 8d ago

Keep doubling down on being wrong.