March 26, 2008

The Importance of Properly Placed Punctuation: A Musical Example

These are a few of my favorite things:

When the dog bites,
When the bee stings,
When I'm feeling sad.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I don't get it.

Esther said...

Best song!

Craig said...

Vandelay, I'm not sure if you are trying to be funny or if intent wasn't clear, so I'll assume you are serious and explain away.

The song lists several things followed by the line "these are a few of my favorite things." By replacing the period after that phrase with a colon, I was implying that the favorite things were in the next line and thus Julie Andrews likes biting dogs, stinging bees and feeling sad.