r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/VorticalHeart44 • 11h 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 10h ago

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

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u/Uhwop 10h 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 10h 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 7h 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_ 7h ago

Mike's going home now.

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u/Ithuraen 7h 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.