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And and and and and :-)

Can you come up with a grammatically correct sentence that includes the word “and” five times in a row?

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A signwriter had written a sign for a FishandChips shop.   When the owner saw the sign, he said:

“I want you to leave a bigger space between ‘Fish’ and ‘and’ and ‘and’ and ‘Chips’.

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One response on a newsgroup:

I would have said, “Leave bigger spaces each side of ‘and'”.

And:

Another signwriter made a sign for the partnership “Hand and Anderson” .
He left too much space between h and and and and and and and and and and and and and erson

A response to this:

Nice try, but there’s no reason why any space at all should be left
between “H-and” or “And-erson”, and the “And” of Anderson is capitalised, as is the “h” of Hand – if we want to be pedantic.
The original theme was, to my recollection, about Pig and Whistle; which, to spoil it all, was probably Pig & Whistle on the English pub’s signboard.
Also, allocate grammatical character to the various “and”s, and we get a
string of nouns and conjunctions. Or, insert quotation marks. Again being
pedantic.

And another:

Punctuate:

Smith where Jones had had had had had had had had had had had the
Professor’s approval…

Smith, where Jones had had “had”, had had “had had”. “Had had” had had
the Professor’s approval.

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