Cub Driver wrote in
:

Is this Pennsylvania Dutch?
("Throw Momma down the stairs a hat!")

Interesting. This used to be a New Hampshire calumny:
"Throw Father down the stairs his shoes."

We used to collect those, back when I was doing AI and "natural language
parsing" research. Things that people tend to understand without
difficulty, but would drive our best computer programs bonkers. Some
classics that were always used to test parsing:

The old man the boats.

Time flies like an arrow.

The've been working on the problem for 40 years, and still haven't found a
solution.

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