On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 11:00:03 +0000, Vicky <***@gmail.com> scrawled
in the dust...
Post by Vickyhttps://www.gransnet.com/forums/pedants_corner/1245702-A-Pedant-walks-into-a-bar
That link crashed Agent several times before I had a closer look at it and
copied the basic link without all the carp at the end instead of
double-clicking it.
So I thought I'd copy and paste the post to save others similar problems...
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.
An Oxford comma walks into a bar, where it spends the evening watching the
television getting drunk and smoking cigars.
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.
*(I cant take credit for these, but the malapropism is my favorite.
Enjoy!)
--
Penny
Annoyed by The Archers since 1959