Thought they meant, "Somewhere in the neighborhood of twenty ducks"; guess I was wrong. :-D
This third addition to Lynn Johnson's very nifty(and extremely funny!) series of wordplay books, which also includes Eats, Shoots, and Leaves and The Girl's Like Spaghetti, plays with various punctuation marks and how they affect the meanings of sentences, with such examples as, "The cowboy roped the steer(on his horse)." versus "The cowboy roped the steer on his horse."(How the steer got on his horse, he never did find out!), "This is Sharky, who lost a tooth." versus "This is Sharky. Who lost a tooth?"(Maybe Sharky knows?), and "'Do you know who came last night? Santa Claus!' said my mom." versus "'Do you know who came last night?' Santa Claus said. 'My mom!'"(And she left goodies!) Proof positive that every punctuation mark certainly does count!
Here are a couple of my favorites:
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The pyramids really brought back memories for her.
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The question is, who has worse manners, the dinner guests or the Queen?
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