Since this is the weekend, we will combine a little English writing lesson with wit and humour.
This is a story of a 16-year-old boy from New Hampshire who won the World's shortest essay competition. He was awarded a scholarship at the University of Harvard for his imagination and humour. Here's an example of absolute brilliance…
An English university creative writing class was asked to write a concise essay containing the following elements:
1) Religion
2) Royalty
3) Sex
4) Mystery
The prizewinner wrote: ‘My God, ‘ said the Queen. ‘I’m pregnant. I wonder who the father is?’
Brilliant fellow, isn’t he? The following was another one I heard from one of my cousins, when I was a teenager. It uses the device called phonetic ambiguity. That is, a word that sounds like another word. Examples include knows/nose, read/red, blue/blew, and hair/hare.
Teacher asks: ‘Form a sentence with the words defence, defeat, and detail.’
Student: ‘When the cow jumps over the fence, the feet comes before the tail!’
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