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GeneralRe: Another concern with Win 11 Pin
Daniel Pfeffer30-Apr-24 18:13
professionalDaniel Pfeffer30-Apr-24 18:13 
GeneralRe: Another concern with Win 11 Pin
Gary Wheeler1-May-24 0:32
Gary Wheeler1-May-24 0:32 
GeneralI so want to use C#s new(ish) source generator tech for more things Pin
honey the codewitch30-Apr-24 11:12
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GeneralRe: I so want to use C#s new(ish) source generator tech for more things Pin
Richard Deeming30-Apr-24 21:59
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GeneralRe: I so want to use C#s new(ish) source generator tech for more things Pin
pkfox30-Apr-24 23:50
professionalpkfox30-Apr-24 23:50 
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honey the codewitch30-Apr-24 23:54
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jochance3-May-24 5:37
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GeneralGrammar Humor Pin
fgs196330-Apr-24 8:44
fgs196330-Apr-24 8:44 
Probably old but new for me...

• An Oxford comma walks into a bar where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars.

• A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.

• A bar was walked into by the passive voice.

• An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.

• Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”

• A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.

• Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.

• A question mark walks into a bar?

• A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.

• Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Get out -- we don't serve your type."

• A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.

• A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.

• Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.

• A synonym strolls into a tavern.

• At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar -- fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.

• A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.

• Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.

• A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.

• An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.

• The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.

• A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned a man with a glass eye named Ralph.

• The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.

• A dyslexic walks into a bra.

• A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.

• A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.

• A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.

• A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony.
GeneralRe: Grammar Humor Pin
jmaida30-Apr-24 8:52
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PIEBALDconsult30-Apr-24 10:35
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k505430-Apr-24 11:32
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Richard Andrew x6430-Apr-24 12:50
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11917640 Member 30-Apr-24 21:21
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Gary Wheeler1-May-24 0:30
Gary Wheeler1-May-24 0:30 
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11917640 Member 1-May-24 0:34
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DerekT-P1-May-24 11:29
professionalDerekT-P1-May-24 11:29 
GeneralWhat song best describes you? Pin
5teveH30-Apr-24 5:57
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Salvatore Terress30-Apr-24 6:24
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PIEBALDconsult30-Apr-24 6:49
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jeron130-Apr-24 7:17
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dandy7230-Apr-24 7:33
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k505430-Apr-24 7:56
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Jeremy Falcon30-Apr-24 8:03
professionalJeremy Falcon30-Apr-24 8:03 
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jmaida30-Apr-24 8:48
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RickZeeland30-Apr-24 9:38
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