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 Message 4099 
 Gleb Hlebov to All 
 Grammar in the Bar 
 13 Mar 24 15:27:52 
 
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Fun stuff which is also ecudative (sort of). :-)

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Grammar in the Bar
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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 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 cliche 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 by a man with a glass eye named
Ralph.

The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.

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.

An anacoluthon walks into the bar is open till midnight.

Into a bar, a hyperbaton walks.

A subordinate clause that walks into a bar.

A tautology walks into a bar on foot.

A zeugma walks into a bar and an argument.

A synecdoche walks into a well-known pub chain.

A solecism walk into a bar.

A metathesis walks into a bra.

An archaism walketh into an alehouse.

A periphrasis locomotes bipedally into an establishment licensed to serve
alcoholic beverages.

A group of homophones wok inn two a bar.

An aposiopesis walks into a -- well, you know the sort of thing.

A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender
nearly chokes on the irony.

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Disclaimer

These jokes were found on Diaspora by Alexandre Oliva in 2020. They had
swarmed around the web for several years and probably have numerous authors.
The Free Software Foundation claims no copyright on them.


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