For your language-nerd approval, McSweeney’s list of “Sexting Ice Breakers for English Grad Students.”

For example:

“I’ve been examining your assonance all day.”

“Your analysis of Moby-Dick is so long and hard to navigate!”

“While the punctuation is grammatically correct, I could really go for a good interrobang right now.”

Try ’em. It could work! (Nothing’s sexier than an interrobang, am I right?)

Thanks go to Hot Tipper Alithea, who also told me my favorite grammar joke: What’s the difference between a cat and a comma? A cat has claws at the end of its paws, and a comma is a pause at the end of a clause. One million points for Alithea!)

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  6. Love the cat/comma joke, but shouldn’t it be: “A cat has *claws* at the end of its *paws*, and a comma is a pause at the end of a clause.”?

  7. @4: This as good a time as any to finally tell you, Leek: The grad students in all the other departments, arts AND sciences, agree that the grad students in the English department have the worst sense of humor. Weird: there’s so much humor in literature, and so little in those who study it for a living (instead of reading it for fun).

  8. Eric: Ha! As if any grad students in any department can really lay claim to a sense of humor. It’s been beaten out of them early on.

    At any rate, I’ve been out of school for 9 years, so I’ve recovered enough to accurately assess the humor here. Negligible.

  12. Uh, this shit is hilarious. Two or three were lame/obvious, but the rest both made me laugh and made me nostalgic for grad school parties.

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