Tom Christiansen (of Perl fame) likes this example of
why the "Oxford comma" is important:
I'd like to thank my parents, God and Mother Teresa.
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At 8:59 AM +0900 8/26/06, Hal Fulton wrote:
How delightfully ambiguous. Like the old headline
"Grandmother of Five Shoots Hole in One" or "Man
Dies -- Cooked for Queen".
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