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frogmarch

(12,158 posts)
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 04:04 PM Aug 2020

Something walks into a bar

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 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.

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

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Something walks into a bar (Original Post) frogmarch Aug 2020 OP
A pony walks into a bar. LuckyCharms Aug 2020 #1
"Walks into a bar" jokes for the grammar freaks among us. Jeebo Aug 2020 #2
Good newspaper editors are few and far between nowadays Cirque du So-What Aug 2020 #7
Haiku enters bar. JustABozoOnThisBus Aug 2020 #3
That was fun. Wreckamended. yonder Aug 2020 #4
Appreciated and shared! soothsayer Aug 2020 #5
Three things I love are eating my family and not using commas soothsayer Aug 2020 #6
This is great! dragonlady Aug 2020 #8

Jeebo

(2,025 posts)
2. "Walks into a bar" jokes for the grammar freaks among us.
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 04:18 PM
Aug 2020

I can appreciate them, having been a newspaper copy editor for 45 years (retired now).

-- Ron

Cirque du So-What

(25,953 posts)
7. Good newspaper editors are few and far between nowadays
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 05:05 PM
Aug 2020

I shake my head every day at the assassination of the written language.

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