Winston Churchill is said to have thoroughly enjoyed paraprosdokians.
Say WHAT!?
Henny Youngman was a master; remember, “Take my wife…please!” or Groucho Marx, “I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening…but this wasn’t it!” P. G. Wodehouse is always a favorite. “She looked as though she’s been poured into her clothes and forgot to say ‘when’.”
For those who know I cannot let black humor pass, there’s this one by Emo Philips, “I like going to the park and watching the children run around because they don’t know I use blanks.”
Another by Winston Churchill supposedly about Clement Attlee, “A modest man, who has much to be modest about.”
Not sure who said these, but some are really funny:
*If there’s a will, I want to be in it.
*War doesn’t determine who is right. Only who is left.
*To steal from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.
*I didn’t say it was your fault. I said I was blaming you.
*I thought I wanted a career. Turns out, I just wanted a paycheck.
*The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it’s on my list.
*I used to be indecisive. Now, I’m not so sure.
*Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.
*You’re never too old to learn something stupid.
Blessings ~ paraprosdokians ~ humor ~ humorists ~ another beautiful day ~
Here's one we say at our house alot:
It's been real, and it's been fun. But it hasn't been real fun.
Thanks for startimg my Sunday with a smile!
Thanks for the chuckle!
That Winston Churchill has said some of the funniest things. Also, Mark Twain.
Its brave to be honest, even in our real bakground, we sometimes dont know ourselves. Every kind of holyness is a present from HIM. Also "fools of Christ" have an urgent mission!
So that is what "those" are called . . . Now I know!
Thanks for the Saturday Night Laughs!
my kind of humor – now i know a name for it!