We’ve been talking about lists and short fiction this week—and we’re always talking about grammar and punctuation—so I couldn’t resist leaving you with this short Short Saturday post.
Who doesn’t love a bar joke? A man walks into a bar … and something unexpected happens. There are a whole slough of bar jokes just for us word geeks:
• An ellipsis walked into a bar …
• A question mark walks into a bar?
• Two quotation marks “walk into” a bar.
• A rabbi, a priest, and a cliché walk into a bar.
They’ve been copied and expanded upon all over the Internet (here, for example), so it doesn’t bother me to rehash them. You’ve probably seen them somewhere else.
• A dangling modifier walks into a bar. After finishing a drink, the bartender asks it to leave.
• The past, the present, and the future walk into a bar. It was tense.
• A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.
• An antecedent walked into a bar, and they ordered a drink.
• The Oxford Comma joined in a high-spirited debate at the bar that included his parents, Ayn Rand and the Bishop of Canterbury.
There’s a variant of the Oxford comma joke—involving JFK and Stalin—here. My personal favorite, though, makes me giggle every time I see it:
• A typo wakled into a bar.
What’s your favorite bar joke? What’s your favorite grammar/punctuation joke?
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