Remember to never split infinitives.
There’s my favorite mathematical joke, which is slightly related, and which I guarantee half of you already know:
Q. What does the “B” in “Benoit B. Mandelbrot” stand for?
A. Benoit B. Mandelbrot
Because a preposition is not an appropriate thing to end a sentence with.
I didn’t but I love it.
lol
Igpay Atinlay.
mondegreen – a misheard word or phrase, from Lady Mondegreen, a mondegreen of “laid him on the green”.
Eat death, spell checker. Is it so a word!
I remember a contest in a magazine many years ago (either Omni or Games). The contest was in providing the best examples of self-referential statements. I think the one that won was a sign in Braille that said, “Do Not Touch”.
Another one that may have been in the contest was the real-life example from technical documentation: “This page intentionally left blank.”
Let me get straight to the point without beating around the bush…
Excuse me, I don’t mean to interrupt but …
Don’t tolerate intolerance.
DON’T YELL!!!
“Schmefix”.
I never really thought about that. :smack: How about:
This page intentionally left blank, starting…NOW!
A slight variant I use with my kids: “I must have told you a million times not to exaggerate.”
Portmanteau
Our four-year-old has lately been demanding that my wife and I conduct conversations like the Dalai Lama – no raising of voices to emphasize a point, no excited discussion allowed (he thinks we’re arguing when we aren’t).
But he tries to enforce this “rule” in the style of Adolf Hitler – indignantly barking commands at us.
Safire dubbed them “fumblerules of grammar.” My favorite has always been “As you walk through the valley of the shadow of death, do not use too many prepositional phrases.”
Why are you wasting your time posting in this thread?
Phrase’s with mispellings and erronneous apostrophe’s