How would you answer the "Fish-And-Chips sign" question?

Would the sentence "I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign" have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?

-- Swiped from a fortune.

Total Votes	% of Voters	Female Votes	Male Votes	Unspecified Votes	% of Female Votes	% of Male Votes	% of Unspecified Votes	Average Age	Answer
13	20.3%	4	9	..	15.4%	37.5%	..	36.9	Yes
10	15.6%	4	6	..	15.4%	25.0%	..	37.1	No
26	40.6%	14	12	..	53.8%	50.0%	..	40.3	Aaargh!
1	1.6%	..	1	..	..	4.2%	..	..	...and you should use en-dashes instead of hyphens!
3	4.7%	2	1	..	7.7%	4.2%	..	37.8	I think the number of "and's" between "Fish" and "Chips" is wrong.
6	9.4%	4	2	..	15.4%	8.3%	..	37.0	Other.

Rating Total Female Male Unspecified Average Age
Good 8 3 5 0 40.0
Bad 18 8 10 0 36.0
No Opinion 33 18 15 0 40.2

Rating	Total	Female	Male	Average Age
Good	8	3	5	40.0
Bad	18	8	10	36.0
No Opinion	33	18	15	40.2

Type Number
Abstainers 14
Male 24
Female 26
Unspecified 0

Type	Number
Abstainers	14
Male	24
Female	26
Unspecified	0

Qualifiers:
User Vote Comment
mandy reasonable
posted 7-Apr-2000 6:25pm
ARGH!

natsim reasonable
posted 7-Apr-2000 5:12pm

ILJ reasonable
posted 7-Apr-2000 4:53pm

nihon reasonable
posted 7-Apr-2000 3:33am

pcpr N/A
posted 7-Apr-2000 2:33am
ILJ: thanks; it makes no difference to me, so I changed it. The original "question" was from a fortune cookie, as I mentioned in the explanation.

sequel: the original question sounds silly and is hard to work out; I don't mean to make this into a serious deep thoughts survey, but I got several extreme responses from different people and I am curious what SC users have to say about it. It's mostly for entertainment only.

mandy: I hope you don't slit your throat, I'd miss you too much; could we settle for "Argh!"?

All: again thanks for all the sugestions; I'm willing to put some work into this and get it out but I am not willing to bug people here so if you think it should be killed just say so and I can delete this and we move on with our merry lives.
Avocado reasonable
posted 7-Apr-2000 2:27am
Awwww, I like it! :)
nihon old
posted 7-Apr-2000 1:49am
It ll makes sense, but only if you really pay attention.

Kind of like: I feel a little more like I do now than I did a little while ago.
sequel old
posted 6-Apr-2000 11:52pm
What ILJ said. AND same problem as before, this isn't just silly, it's nonsense.
ILJ old
posted 6-Apr-2000 6:25pm
I might be arguing too serious-minded a point for such a silly survey (nothing wrong with silly surveys) but the word "Wouldn't" in the explanation text is biased. It implies the survey creator's opinion and should be changed to "Would."
they old
posted 5-Apr-2000 11:41pm

sequel old
posted 5-Apr-2000 11:38pm
nonsense
mandy old
posted 5-Apr-2000 8:14pm
How's this for a reaction:

*slits her own throat*
pcpr old
posted 5-Apr-2000 7:51pm
While I agree that Phi's sugestion would make a better survey, I wanted to find out how people react to this particular question.
phi old
posted 5-Apr-2000 7:47pm
A better survey would be "how many of the same word can you place adjacent to each other and have it still make sense", in the Quiz category. You could give the 10 "had"s one (Ann, where Bob had had "had", had had "had had"; "had had" had been the correct answer) as an example.

Failing that, at least change the "&" to and "and" in the survey title!
magbast old
posted 5-Apr-2000 7:41pm
man, that was confusing

Last	Type	Created	Category	Creator	Sort	Votes	Hides	Rating
Last	multiple	7-Apr-2000	language	pcpr	unsorted	64	11	41.5%

User	Vote	Comment
mandy	reasonable	posted 7-Apr-2000 6:25pm ARGH!
natsim	reasonable	posted 7-Apr-2000 5:12pm
ILJ	reasonable	posted 7-Apr-2000 4:53pm
nihon	reasonable	posted 7-Apr-2000 3:33am
pcpr	N/A	posted 7-Apr-2000 2:33am ILJ: thanks; it makes no difference to me, so I changed it. The original "question" was from a fortune cookie, as I mentioned in the explanation. sequel: the original question sounds silly and is hard to work out; I don't mean to make this into a serious deep thoughts survey, but I got several extreme responses from different people and I am curious what SC users have to say about it. It's mostly for entertainment only. mandy: I hope you don't slit your throat, I'd miss you too much; could we settle for "Argh!"? All: again thanks for all the sugestions; I'm willing to put some work into this and get it out but I am not willing to bug people here so if you think it should be killed just say so and I can delete this and we move on with our merry lives.
Avocado	reasonable	posted 7-Apr-2000 2:27am Awwww, I like it! :)
nihon	old	posted 7-Apr-2000 1:49am It ll makes sense, but only if you really pay attention. Kind of like: I feel a little more like I do now than I did a little while ago.
sequel	old	posted 6-Apr-2000 11:52pm What ILJ said. AND same problem as before, this isn't just silly, it's nonsense.
ILJ	old	posted 6-Apr-2000 6:25pm I might be arguing too serious-minded a point for such a silly survey (nothing wrong with silly surveys) but the word "Wouldn't" in the explanation text is biased. It implies the survey creator's opinion and should be changed to "Would."
they	old	posted 5-Apr-2000 11:41pm
sequel	old	posted 5-Apr-2000 11:38pm nonsense
mandy	old	posted 5-Apr-2000 8:14pm How's this for a reaction: slits her own throat
pcpr	old	posted 5-Apr-2000 7:51pm While I agree that Phi's sugestion would make a better survey, I wanted to find out how people react to this particular question.
phi	old	posted 5-Apr-2000 7:47pm A better survey would be "how many of the same word can you place adjacent to each other and have it still make sense", in the Quiz category. You could give the 10 "had"s one (Ann, where Bob had had "had", had had "had had"; "had had" had been the correct answer) as an example. Failing that, at least change the "&" to and "and" in the survey title!
magbast	old	posted 5-Apr-2000 7:41pm man, that was confusing