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Nechama Chaya ([personal profile] med_cat) wrote2022-02-05 02:34 am
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An Oxford comma walks into a bar where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars.
 
• A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.
 
• A bar was walked into by the passive voice.
 
• An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.
 
• Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”
 
• A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.
 
• Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.
 
• A question mark walks into a bar?
 
• A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.
 
• Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Get out -- we don't serve your type."
 
• A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.
 
• A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.
 
• Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.
 
• A synonym strolls into a tavern.
 
• At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar -- fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.
 
• A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.
 
• Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.
 
• A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.
 
• An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.
 
• The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.
 
• A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned a man with a glass eye named Ralph.
 
• The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.
 
• A dyslexic walks into a bra.
 
• A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.
 
• A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.
 
• A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.
 
• A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony.

(found via [personal profile] elenbarathi --many thanks!)
 
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[personal profile] gingicat 2022-02-05 11:16 am (UTC)(link)
These are very clever!
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[personal profile] shirebound 2022-02-05 12:05 pm (UTC)(link)
These are ever so clever. Such a marvelous way to learn (or re-learn).
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[personal profile] used_songs 2022-02-05 01:51 pm (UTC)(link)
LOL!
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[personal profile] minoanmiss 2022-02-05 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
*snickers*
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[personal profile] cellio 2022-02-08 02:47 am (UTC)(link)

I was chuckling, and then I got to the verb and the noun and I lost it. :-)

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[personal profile] debriswoman 2022-02-08 03:49 pm (UTC)(link)
😊😊😊