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There are certain phrases, like "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo," that sound ridiculous but are actually grammatically valid. Others include:

• "Who polices the police? - The police police. So, who polices the police police? Police police police police police police."
• "When a Doctor's ill and another Doctor comes to doctor the ill Doctor, will the Doctor doctoring the ill Doctor, doctor the ill Doctor the way the ill Doctor wants, or will the Doctor doctoring the ill Doctor doctor the ill doctor the way the Doctor doctoring the ill Doctor wants?"
• And my personal favorite, "Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?"

My head hurts. Ow. Ow ow ow ow.



(Also, new R.E.M. album. Whee!)