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hvn_nbr_2

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9. Pluperfect subjunctive

Reply to NNadir (Original post)

Mon Feb 20, 2017, 11:26 PM

Feb 2017

I swear that I heard that joke 40 years ago when I was traveling to Boston for work, and the tense was exactly the same, pluperfect subjunctive. It's kind of amazing nobody in 40 years thought they could make up a better name for a tense and change the joke.

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A physicist, an engineer, and a statistician out hunting. [View all] NNadir Feb 2017 OP

This probably funny to the average reader. nt Xipe Totec Feb 2017 #1

roflmao rurallib Feb 2017 #2

I actually understood some of those underpants Feb 2017 #3

The 1st was funny the 2nd nearly made me throw up laughing-thanks n/t TexasProgresive Feb 2017 #4

Same here mitch96 Feb 2017 #12

OMG... hwmnbn Feb 2017 #5

Wouldn't not allowing for air resistance needledriver Feb 2017 #6

Never mind. I figured it out. needledriver Feb 2017 #7

Thanks for the link :) lunasun Feb 2017 #8

Pluperfect subjunctive hvn_nbr_2 Feb 2017 #9

A priest, a rabbi, and an imam walk into a bar. longship Feb 2017 #10

A doctor, a lawyer and an engineer were playing a round of golf.... A HERETIC I AM Feb 2017 #11

I love that one. It's great. NT mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2017 #13