if they held an award cermony for the best witticism of the year, would it be called the 'turner phrase'?
i'm currently working on a joke with the punchline 'raleigh drowned him' but i can't make it grammatically make sense because you'd have to say '_they_ raleigh drowned him' and it breaks the sentance structure. bah. anyone got any ideas (other than 'give up')?
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That's rubbish.
Sir Walter and his dad fell out with Francis Drake over bowling, so they threw him off the white cliffs...?
Again, sounds rubbish though. Raleigh / really is raleigh weak. :P
it's not raleigh/really is, you misreader, it's raleigh drowned/rally round. now try.
Ahhh! A famous sailor died at sea and all the other sailors cheered up his widow. Yes, when Raleigh drowned they rallied round.
Less rubbish, but still...
you'd have to define a phrase 'raleigh drowned' as a specific kind of drowning, so that you could use the phrase as a verb phrase and then play it against the verb phrase 'rallied round'.
it has to work, it's too perfect not to...
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