Sometimes a little punctuation makes a big difference. Leaving off an apostrophe and a space turns the phrase a man’s laughter into the word manslaughter. The Pearls Before Swine comic by Stephan Pastis on April 29, 2026 has the following dialogue:
Pig: Did you see this guy who got arrested?
Goat: No. What happened?
Pig: Guess he must have been a comedian or something because he got jailed for a man’s laughter.
Goat: Manslaughter.
Pig: Oh, great, He slaughtered some man for laughing
Goat: Why do I try?
My cartoon is a color version of this one from Openclipart.
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