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Post by t-bob on Nov 30, 2021 13:35:10 GMT -5
Figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected; frequently used in a humorous situation.
Paraprosdokian
A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part. It is frequently used for humorous or dramatic effect, sometimes producing an anticlimax. For this reason, it is extremely popular among comedians and satirists. Some paraprosdokians not only change the meaning of an early phrase, but they also play on the double meaning of a particular word, creating a form of syllepsis.
Paraprosdokian
A paraprosdokian () is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence, phrase, or larger discourse is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part. It is frequently used for humorous or dramatic effect, sometimes producing an anticlimax. For this reason, it is extremely popular among comedians and satirists such as Groucho Marx.
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Post by billhammond on Nov 30, 2021 13:49:40 GMT -5
"We worked very hard to childproof our house ... but our children still got in."
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Post by Russell Letson on Nov 30, 2021 15:08:24 GMT -5
A rolling stone gathers momentum.
A penny saved is hardly worth the effort.
(Two one-liners via my grad-school roomie.)
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Post by jdd2 on Nov 30, 2021 18:05:37 GMT -5
So, another word for a one-liner?
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Post by TKennedy on Nov 30, 2021 19:10:41 GMT -5
I went to the Air And Space Museum There was nothing there.
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Post by t-bob on Nov 30, 2021 21:35:44 GMT -5
I went to the Air And Space Museum There was nothing there. I went to another "Space and Air" and also in Huntsville. A assistant visitor/ volunteer was talking so fast and I thought he had marble balls in his mouth. I couldn't hear anything. I needed to have a translator... then I found it was just the dialect Alammmmanda. I couldn't even understand their name. I found out he was Leroy - he had six brothers and they were all Leroys. That explained it...... They were cool stuff like rocket planes and shit.... Von Braun worked nuclucar - a genius |
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Post by jdd2 on Dec 1, 2021 1:21:04 GMT -5
My last army duty station was redstone arsenal (total luck). Was there about a year, really liked the area/countryside. The last few months I got into a program called 'project transition', which was to get you used to the real world before discharge. I worked (sat in on the activities) at the local USGS soil conservation branch. Usually rode around madison county with two guys, of course alabamans, in a govt pickup truck. Contour lines in fields, sometime dams for ponds, talking to farmers who needed them to do/approve certain things for some govt support/money. Saw parts of the county that I never otherwise would, a few really special places. One of the guys, Span, was almost retired and knew all sorts of details--where sinkholes were and how they lined up, details about the farms, where stills 'might have been', etc. Plate lunches daily, but roughing it might be crackers and canned sardines in the back of a rundown grocery store.
It was skylab days, and the astronauts would commute daily from texas since they had a tank where they could practice fixing what was wrong with that. They flew T-38s, inevitably would call in a sudden flame out approach and then drop out of the sky. On departure they'd get just airborne, hit the afterburner, and go vertical right past the end of the runway. (I worked in the tower there.) The guppy came thru a few times.
There was some missile testing, or at least design there, and a C-47 or two that would fly back and forth to white sands. Never went along, thought it would be boring. NASA had a gulfstream twin turboprop that they'd run up on the apron and shoot a laser/lasers out the side to a target on the mountain in the middle of the base. Probably some kind of guidance work.
I did visit the little museum there. Besides equipment, there was a nice chunk of moon rock, maybe about half the size of a pack of cigarettes.
Dry county, state liquor stores only open weekdays til 5 or so. We'd drive to Tennessee for that--several stores just over the line.
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