Jokes are barred

At McSweeney’s, Eric K Auld has some good bar jokes involving grammar and punctuation.

Here are some of my own, stretching the concept to cover language more broadly:

1. A subject and a verb disagrees about which bar to walk into.
2. An Oxford comma hops, skips, and jumps into a bar.
3. A pleonasm enters into a bar.
4. The subjunctive would walk into a bar, were it in the mood.
5. A hyphen, drunk after leaving the bar, mistakenly walks-into a phrasal verb.
6. A colon and a semicolon walk into a bar: the colon has a gutful; the semicolon orders a half.
7. A syllepsis walks out on its wife and into a bar.
8. A gang of commas walk into a bar and order everything on the menu.
9. A prescriptivist walks into a tavern, because of course ‘bar’ means the counter at which drink is served rather than the establishment itself. He wonders why nobody else is there.
10. A meaning walks into a bar and orders a double.
11. A portmanteau walks into a barmaid.

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