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What do you get when you combine a rhetorical question with a joke?



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What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question, a superfluously expanded vocabulary, and a blatant disregard for previously established axioms?

A punchline.

Comedians will often ask rhetorical questions in order to get the audience on board with them or to relate to them.

How stupid is that?!

I've given up asking rhetorical questions.

What's the point?

A man walks up to you and asks, "What happens when you combined a joke with a rhetorical question?"

*the man walks away laughing*

Told a stranger on a bus that I liked rhetorical questions.

He said, "Who cares?"
I said, "that's a classic!"

Rhetorical questions confuse me

If someone asks you something, you're supposed to answer them, right?

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The ultimate revenge ( long)

Melville was 10 years old and he loved clowns. When he heard that the circus was coming to town he did everything he could to convince his parents to take him so he could see the clowns. They eventually agreed and when the day arrived he was incredibly excited! He was on the edge of his seat with an...

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The Top 10 Edinburgh Fringe Festival Jokes

Here are the Top 10 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival Jokes!

1. “I’m not a fan of the new pound coin, but then again, I hate all change.” Ken Cheng


2. “Trump’s nothing like Hitler. There’s no way he could write a book.” Frankie Boyle


3. “I’ve given up asking rhetorical q...

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A trucker is driving down a random stretch of highway

He happens upon a billboard while driving that reads...

Peaches, engineered for your taste!
Only 10 miles!

Mildly intrigued, the driver decides to check out what this means. "Engineered for my tastes, what bullshit!", he says.

Driving for the next couple miles, he final...

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Drunk man in the church

A drunk man enters the church during the mass and sits. The Priest was lecturing about the prostitute whom regretted from her sins to follow Jesus. So it came to the point that the Priest, rhetorically, says to the church:

“He that never mistakes among you, let him first cast a stone.”
...

A couple are on a blind date. She, a New York realtor; he, a Russian businessman. After a lovely dinner, conversation turns to world affairs, and the man expresses some anti-Islamic views.

The woman is incensed, but the guy is cute so she decides to give him a second chance: “I don’t know what’s acceptable in Russia, but I don’t want to hear any of that bigoted rhetoric. Not another word! I’m going to the washroom to cool off and we’ll try again.” As the woman leaves the table the...

A man asked another man, “What’s the term for when you ask a question without expecting an answer?”

The other man didn’t respond because it was rhetorical.

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Some good tips for your English class.

1. Avoid alliteration. Always.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat.)
4. Employ the vernacular.
5. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
6. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
7. It...

For anyone who gets confused about proper grammar and style in writing

I offer from the Internet, the following tip sheet, "How to Write Good":

- It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
- Contractions aren't necessary
- The passive voice is to be avoided.
- Prepositions are not the words to end sentences with.
- Be more or less specific.
- ...

Where in the world would we be...

...without rhetorical questions?

My Dad's favourite joke

An Alien, tired after a long galactic trip, finds himself in the deepest, darkest fathoms of the West Country. With such a long distance travelled, he decides to wet his whistle in one of the West Countries many pub. As we all know however, these are not the friendliest of places...

So the Al...

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What do you call a speech so scary it makes you crap your pants?

A dire rhetoric.

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Little Johnny never paid attention in English class.

The teacher, thinking he would catch Johnny off-gaurd, asked him a question to put him on the spot in front of the class.
"Johnny, can you give an example of a rhetorical question?"

Johnny responded, "Why don't you go fuck yourself?!"

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