"the treacherous, liquid windowpane swam gleefully to the edges of the seas on Mars"). The Power of Babel has the statement, which Makes Sense In Context, "Languages are chock-full of Charlie Brown heads", and lampshades it with a footnote: "Never again will that sequence of words be used in the English language." note All books explaining linguistics to a general audience have a version of this: a sentence that makes sense grammatically but describes bizarre or inconceivable idea (e.g.The Audit: I can't believe life gave you the chance. In Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain, Penny's father Brian/Brainy Akk remarks on the debut of the Inscrutable Machine (a villain team of thirteen-year-olds), suggesting letting superpowered kids fight each other may be healthier for them, then remarks to The Audit that he can't believe he said that.This includes even the strangest ones, his example being "Plums deify" (which becomes a Running Gag). The Stephen King memoir/writing guide On Writing notes that any noun and any verb, put together, make a legitimate sentence.Marty Pants: Marty makes four in "Do Not Open!".Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard has the main character internally bemoaning the fact he can say he got to discuss with a goat in Jotunheim.Everything after George Washington's dildo was a blur. During one of his recorded stand-up show, in which his opening spiel has gone even further off the rails than he normal, he comments: Due to the Improv/stream-of-consciousness nature of his comedy, Ross Noble often finds himself musing of the downright strangeness of what he has just said.Jeff Dunham admits that it's weird to introduce Achmed as "the world's most beloved terrorist".You know, when I set that on the table, that does seem more solid underneath. "You know, it does seem rather precarious. Cue hypothetical exchange between two grown adults with the same sentence. "Buddy, don't try and balance your fruit juice between your chest and the table". Brian Regan has a bit about how parents get to say things that people without kids would never get to say.Examples include "Give me back my fudge suitcase" and "If hernias were rainbows, I'd be Raymond Burr". Ray Romano has a routine in which he mentions that when he is driving at night and needs to stay awake, he tries to think up sentences that no one has ever said (followed by a situation in which they would be).And then you realize that someone who went to an institution of higher learning apparently said something that nonsensical and your eyes close and they find you dead of an aneurysm in your bathroom. From Lewis Black: " If it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college." The bit is about how crazy he went trying to figure out what specific circumstances would make that sentence make sense.From Carlin's above-mentioned book: "THINGS YOU NEVER HEAR: 'Please stop sucking my dick or I'll call the police.'".They have a search warrant, and the 300 kilos of cocaine are still sitting out in the living room." The sentence? "As soon as I put this red hot poker in my ass, I'm going to go chop my dick off!" He then moved on to yet more rare sentences, like "Honey, let's sell the children, move to Zanzibar, and begin taking opium rectally," and "Honey, it's the police. At that point he declared that he would say a sentence that no one before him had ever said. It started off talking about things you never see, then transitioned into things you never hear. He had another bit that utilized this.Stephen, I was driving my hearse to the wholesale liverwurst outlet when suddenly a hermaphrodite in a piano truck backed out of a crackhouse driveway." One of his books features a paragraph-long sentence entitled, "No One Ever Wrote This Sentence Before." It starts off: "On the feast of St. They included "Hand me that piano," which actually was used in an episode of The Goon Show.George Carlin had a list of "things nobody would ever say.".note The headline "Local man gets nipple bitten off by beaver"… we didn't say it wasn't disturbing. One of Jeff Foxworthy's "You might be a redneck" jokes involves the rare nonoffensive use of the words "nipple" and "beaver" in the same sentence.
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