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Day 1: Endless possibilities

Two Canadian penguins are paddling a canoe through a desert. The first one says, "Where's your paddle, eh?" The second one says, "sure does!" Despite my disbelief, anger, confusion, linguistic proofs, and pleas for mercy, this monstrosity of an interaction is nevertheless said to have a grammatically correct interpretation. Do I believe this claim? To be honest, not really. Will I spend an exorbitant amount of time trying to figure it out anyways? Absolutely not. However, since this riddle has been plaguing my brain anyways, I may as well write down what on earth this could possibly mean. Garden Path Sentences My immediate instinct upon hearing this riddle was to assume that its grammatical quirks arose from incorrectly parsing the sentence. Similar to the garden path sentence " the horse raced past the barn fell ", where the listener is tricked into believing that raced is the verb of the sentence, referring to the horse, and not the beginni...
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