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If dark humor jokes make you giggle, you'll be happy to know that we've gathered a collection of bad-but-good one-liners that'll make you cringe and snicker at the same time.
[2] [3] One of the most famous opening lines, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times", starts a sentence of 118 words [4] that draws the reader in by its contradiction; the first sentence of the novel, Yes even contains 477 words. Moby-Dick's "Call me Ishmael." is an example of a short opening sentence.
A lead paragraph (sometimes shortened to lead; in the United States sometimes spelled lede) is the opening paragraph of an article, book chapter, or other written work that summarizes its main ideas. [1] Styles vary widely among the different types and genres of publications, from journalistic news-style leads to a more encyclopaedic variety.
A one-liner is a joke that is delivered in a single line. A good one-liner is said to be pithy – concise and meaningful. [1] Comedians and actors use this comedic method as part of their performance, and many fictional characters are also known to deliver one-liners, including James Bond, who often makes pithy and laconic quips after disposing of a villain.
Sigmund Freud was one of the first modern scholars to recognise jokes as an important object of investigation. [87] In his 1905 study Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious [88] Freud describes the social nature of humour and illustrates his text with many examples of contemporary Viennese jokes. [89]
For many years, the bits of vandalism and/or fun that struck people's fancy were kept here on a page called "Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense" (BJAODN). In fact, it was one of the oldest pages on Wikipedia, having been created on January 26, 2001 . [ 1 ]
I feel privileged to have been accepted by soldiers and Marines in their squads, platoons and battalions. Living with the grunts, I have come to respect their grit, their sense of honor and commitment, their bearing, their courage. I’ve been enriched by their unfailing humor and spontaneous generosity.
In July 2021, the Lead Stories fact-checking website confirmed that "Ligma" was not a new variant of the COVID-19 virus, but it was the latest version of "an old dirty joke". [2] After the 2021 Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, a Taliban spokesman fell for the joke, in an image that was widely circulated online. [13]