• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      52·
      2 months ago

      Wadsworth: [shouting] That’s what we’re trying to find out! We’re trying to find out who killed him, and where, and with what!
      Professor Plum: There’s no need to shout!
      Wadsworth: [shouting louder] I’m not shouting!
      [Guests stare at him pointedly]
      Wadsworth: [shouting] All right, I am! I’m shouting, I’m shouting, I’m shout…
      [candlestick falls from above and hits him on the head]

      • BossDj@lemm.ee
        3·
        2 months ago

        Wadsworth: Professor Plum, you were once a professor of psychiatry specializing in homicidal lunatics suffering from delusions of grandeur.

        Professor Plum: Yes, but now I work for the government.

        Wadsworth: So your work hasn’t changed.

    • finley@lemm.eeEnglish
      622·
      3 months ago

      “Wee woo! It’s the grammar Nazis here to cite you for a dangling modifier violation!”

      “Excuse me, officers, but allow me to cite the Rule of Context, subsection 4, paragraph B”