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A grammar book walks into a bar

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July 21, 2026, 08:46 AM
Patrick-SP2022
A grammar book walks into a bar
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A grammar book walks into a bar

* 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 intents and 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 by 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 .

– Jill Thomas Doyle




July 21, 2026, 10:52 AM
Pipe Smoker
quote:
* A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intents and purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.

That one’s pretty ripe.



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July 21, 2026, 11:20 AM
Fredward
Should have gone with "intensive purposes." Would be a slight improvement.
July 21, 2026, 02:33 PM
trapper189
The bar should've been set higher so the book could've walked under it.
July 21, 2026, 04:07 PM
flesheatingvirus
Sent to the wife. This is right up her ally.

Wink


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July 21, 2026, 05:49 PM
V-Tail
quote:
Originally posted by Fredward:

Should have gone with "intensive purposes." Would be a slight improvement.






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July 21, 2026, 06:00 PM
Russ59
While creative, it reminds me of how little I really understand about the English language and its structures. Good thing my paycheck doesn't depend on it....or upon it....or because of it.


P229
July 21, 2026, 07:27 PM
old rugged cross
Cute and well done Wink



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