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Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.</li> <li>A bar was walked into by the passive voice.</li> <li>An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.</li> <li>Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.</li> <li>A question mark walks into a bar?</li> <li>A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.</li> <li>Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, “Get out—we don't serve your type.”</li> <li>A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.</li> <li>A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.</li> <li>Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.</li> <li>A synonym strolls into a tavern.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.</li> <li>Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.</li> <li>A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.</li> <li>An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.</li> <li>The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.</li> <li>A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned by a man with a glass eye named Ralph.</li> <li>The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.</li> <li>A dyslexic walks into a bra.</li> <li>A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.</li> <li>A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.</li> <li>A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.</li> <li>A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony.</li> </ul> <div class="infobox" role="contentinfo"> <hr> <h3 id="Disclaimer">Disclaimer</h3> <p>These jokes were found on Diaspora by Alexandre Oliva in 2020. They had swarmed around the web for several years and probably have numerous authors. 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