Paraprosdokian

[OldAirmail]

Paraprosdokian - A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence, phrase, or larger discourse is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part.

I'll start out with a few. Feel free to add your own.



1. Where there's a will, I want to be in it.



2. The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it's still on my list.



3. Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.



4. If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.



5. We never really grow up; we only learn how to act in public.

[OldAirmail]

6. War does not determine who is right - only who is left.



7. In filling out an application, where it says, In case of emergency, notify:____________, I put DOCTOR.



8. They begin the evening news with 'Good Evening,' then proceed to tell you why it isn't.



9. I thought I wanted a career. Turns out I just wanted pay checks.



10. Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy.

[Flying Trucker]

Good ones...

[H]

11. Where there's a Will, he'd prefer no one aimed at him when the order to random fire is given...
12. If the shoe fits, don't try walking a mile without the mate.
13. When pigs fly, the sky's gone hog wild.

[H]

My connection was getting cut off before I could finish the previous post:

14. Two rights don't make a wrong -- but they don't make it correct, either.
15. You can still feel left out when you go right in.