Dick...these are funny! I may have some more too:)

 

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 From: Dick Veit <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] 
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 5:42 AM
Subject: Re: Into a Bar
 

Then an anapest slowly walked into a bar.



On Dec 14, 2011, at 9:09 PM, Carol Morrison <[log in to unmask]> wrote:


There’s a 
fun little language meme over at the alt.usage.english Google Group: bar jokes that hinge on 
fine points of grammar, punctuation, and linguistics. Peter Moylan of Newcastle, 
NSW, Australia, got the ball rolling on November 22*:
>1. A comma 
splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.
>2. A 
dangling modifier walks into a bar. After finishing a drink, the bartender asks 
it to leave.
>3. A 
question mark walks into a bar?
>4. Two 
quotation marks “walk into” a bar.
>5. A gerund 
and an infinitive walk into a bar, planning to drink.
>6. The bar 
was walked into by the passive voice.
>7. Three 
intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They drink. They leave.
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