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Re:Cryptic, allusive messages from Hong Kong's wealthiest ty... by dspillett on Thursday August 22, 2019 @08:18AM (#20767208)
> committed it by coincidence were sentenced to death

So they sentenced themselves to death with an unfortunate sentence structure.

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Re:Cryptic, allusive messages from Hong Kong's wealthiest ty... by zhoujianfu on Thursday August 22, 2019 @10:00AM (#20768129)
I believe the correct joke is simply:

So they sentenced themselves to death.

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Re:Cryptic, allusive messages from Hong Kong's wealthiest ty... by dspillett on Thursday August 22, 2019 @12:44PM (#20769940)
Probably, I have a tendency to overcomplicate things, particularly when explaining or otherwise talking to others, which can really wreck jokes...
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Re:Cryptic, allusive messages from Hong Kong's wealthiest ty... by _underfl0w_ on Thursday August 22, 2019 @12:58PM (#20770130)
Talk about a death sentence
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Re:Cryptic, allusive messages from Hong Kong's wealthiest ty... by rv-de on Thursday August 22, 2019 @07:50PM (#20773441)
They literally did.
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Re:Cryptic, allusive messages from Hong Kong's wealthiest ty... by namelosw on Thursday August 22, 2019 @08:57AM (#20767489)
That's a good one. My English is not sufficient to come up with this. There's also a Chinese pun story[0] with 92 characters with the same sound but different tone.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_...

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Re:Cryptic, allusive messages from Hong Kong's wealthiest ty... by d33 on Thursday August 22, 2019 @08:41AM (#20767358)
...the sentenced sentenced themselves to a death sentence with an unfortunate sentence structure?
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