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tilly wrote: Mick Murphy and Pat go to the lumber yard to see the foreman.What do you want he says we have come for the jobs they tell him. but i can only set two of you on he says well it says out side tree fellers wanted. However, Tilly, according to your account there's only two applicants, Mick Murphy and Pat. I realise you may have meant Mick, Murphy, and Pat. But if so, why has either Murphy got no first name, or Mick and Pat have no surname(s)? Or, for yet more clarity you could have said the three Murphys - if indeed all three share the same surname - or it could have been Mick, Seamus (say), and Pat. To have two first names and one surname is somewhat inconsistent. It's always possible, of course, that you had forgotten, or indeed may never have known Murphy's first name, but had you improvised, as I did above with Seamus, it would have reduced confusion, and would have enabled me, and, for all I know, countless others, to see the point of the punchline, as we would have realised from the start that there were in fact three potential arboreal demolition operatives required in the eyes of said applicants, whereas the lead-in without a comma after Mick does create a degree of uncertainty in the reader which is not fully resolved by the denouement.I'm so pleased to have made the situation crystal clear.
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