Short bursts of curmudgeonry on any topic. Bar Jokes for English Majors. These are too good not to post. They come from the bluebird of bitterness. Blog and the image from the story reading ape. Blog to which I give credit. 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. Two quotation marks walk into a bar.

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When I was lost in the Chihuahuan Desert, I spent those long, cold nights finding comfort in the night sky. Out in that part of Texas, there is no light pollution. You can see the Milky Way and falling stars galore. As we usher in 2017, I think back on my time in the desert and long to experience that kind of passionate belief again.