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piece of string

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  • A piece of string walks into a bar. The bartender says, "Hey buddy! Can't you read the sign? We don't serve string in here." And tosses him out onto the curb. (Repeat ad nauseum.)

    Finally, the string thinks a little, musses up his hair, contorts himself into a hopeless tangle and goes back in. The bartender looks at him suspiciously and says, "Say, aren't you that piece of string I just threw out of here?" To which the string replies, "I'm a frayed knot."

    An oldie but... well, an oldie, anyway.

    April 8, 2008

  • Hahaha! A variation on one of my all-time favorites. :-) (In the version I know, three strings walk into a bar....)

    I always thought the opening line was almost as funny as the punchline.

    April 8, 2008

  • I think we could shoehorn 'well, three strings walked into a bar' into the phrasing and tune of 'we three kings of orient far'. If we, er, wished to do so.

    Great joke!

    April 8, 2008

  • Good idea. *singing* Well, three strings walked into a bar...

    (Pssst... bilby... did you mean "We three kings of Orient are"?)

    April 8, 2008

  • For quite a while I thought the three kings hailed from the mythical land of Orientar.

    April 8, 2008

  • But... but... then there's no verb...

    *sigh* I guess I was a weird kid.

    April 8, 2008

  • Sure there's a verb--in the next line! "Bearing gifts we traverse afar...."

    April 8, 2008

  • No, I mean, "We three kings of Orientar Bearing gifts we traverse afar," that doesn't work. The gerund and the "traverse" don't work for "we three kings." If it really were Orientar, it would have to be "We three kings of Orientar bear gifts as we traverse afar," and that just don't* scan right.

    *intentional subject-verb disagreement.

    April 8, 2008

  • I think it's fine. Shuffle it a bit and it makes a little more sense. "We three kings of Orientar traverse afar bearing gifts." Only then you'd have a hard time singing it. ;-)

    Oh, wait. You'd have to drop the "we."

    April 8, 2008

  • And now I'll be singing Christmas carols all day...

    April 8, 2008

  • Maybe reading this will help, trivet. Or you could listen to the Spinal Tap version of We Three Kings. ;)

    April 8, 2008

  • I was imagining it with a colon if you must know:

    We three kings of Orientar:

    bearing gifts we traverse afar.

    I think it makes sense.

    April 9, 2008

  • Ohhh... a colon... I never seem to hear them when they're sung. Thanks for clarifying.

    April 9, 2008

  • A colon walks into a bar...

    April 9, 2008

  • Ooh, that would be a good one. Go on, Prolagus.

    April 9, 2008