RE: joke time
March 12, 2022 at 8:29 pm
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2022 at 8:30 pm by GUBU.)
(March 12, 2022 at 3:30 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ‘In a hole in the ground, there lived a Hobbit. And then the murders started.’
‘As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. And then the murders started.’
‘It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen. And then the murders started.’
Boru
With these ones, the addition doesn't need any changes to be made to the plots.
(March 12, 2022 at 6:39 pm)A. Secular Human Wrote:(March 12, 2022 at 3:30 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: A lot of novels could be improved by changing the second line to, ‘And then the murders started.’ Like this:
‘Every who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot. And then the murders started.’
‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; and then the murders started.’
‘In a hole in the ground, there lived a Hobbit. And then the murders started.’
‘As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. And then the murders started.’
‘It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen. And then the murders started.’
Boru
"It was a dark, and stormy night. And then the murders started."
Charles Schulz is spinning in his grave.
Don't you mean Edward Bulwer-Lytton?
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