I don't get the grammar humor here, plz help me out! " the past, present and future walked into a bar, it was tense." I can see there're two meanings here, and I understand the grammatical one. What

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I don't get the grammar humor here, plz help me out! " the past, present and future walked into a bar, it was tense." I can see there're two meanings here, and I understand the grammatical one. What confused me is the nervousness one, what makes it nerverse exactly? Btw, do you still remember the first time you heard this joke from?

22 de jul. de 2014 17:26

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It's a reference to old cowboy movies - the classic moment when a cowboy walks into the bar where his rival is drinking, and it all goes quiet. The atmosphere suddenly becomes tense, as everyone waits for the fight to start.

22 de julio de 2014

"To be tense" means to have tension. In this case, tense nerves - ready to react at any second.

22 de julio de 2014

Or you could do a political joke with it. The storyteller is a French diplomat (or the President), in come the British Prime Minister, The US President and the Chinese President.

22 de julio de 2014