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Hyphen Jokes

Anyone notice the irony behind “hyphenated”

and “non-hyphenated”?

I asked my mom why she didnt hyphenate her last name.

Dad said she lost her hyphen when she got married.

dat hyphen

A man eating fish
was saved by a hyphen from
a man-eating fish

(you might have heard it before but its new to me)

My wife's just walked out on me, saying she cant take any more of my insufferable nit picking.

I think you'll find there's a hyphen in nit-picking.

There's a thin line between "Obsessive" and "Compulsive"

... it's a hyphen.

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What happened when the grammar Nazi lost her virginity?

she broke her hyphen

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A grammar book walks into a bar

* An Oxford comma walks into a bar, where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars.

* 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 pass...

My wife left me a note saying “I want a divorce,

I’m already seeing someone, you’re not a good husband and I can’t deal with your nitpicking anymore.”

So then I called her and said “Nit-picking has a hyphen in the word.”

There was a Vietnamese family with two daughters of marrying age

Now in these modern times, their parents were open to interracial marriages but wanted their daughters to maintain something of their heritage.

The first daughter meets a Latino Businessman named Jose Juan. She falls madly in love and they announce their engagement

The second daughter ...

My buddy

You ever have one of those friends that are just OBSESSED with Star Wars? Yeah, me too. Tim Lehey is his name. Number of years he went to a -con where he met this girl Carol Hu. Now, Carol was a friggin Star Wars nut herself. They'd go on and on about how Lucas was so great and...blah blah blah... ...

Dealing with Corporate Information Gathering

The other day, I was purchasing a television antenna in a major electronics store and was asked by the cashier for my name.

“Why,” I asked. ‘I don’t need a warranty.”

“I have to have it for our records,” explained the cashier.

Fed up with practice of companies gathering as mu...

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