>>BTW, one of my favo(u)rites is "I shoot her, I miss her". Is she alive after this sentence?
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>Well obviously you don't shoot her if you miss her?

You need to shoot first to see whether you'll hit or miss, don't you? Now if you miss, you miss. If you hit, you begin to miss the deceased.

>Two beautiful young girls went for a tramp, but the tramp died (of heart attack? - or did the walk just peter out?)

Why peter out, I wonder... why do they never archibald out, or engelbert out?