One Morning I Shot An Elephant In My Pajamas

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One morning i shot an elephant in my pajamas. Today i spent an hour in the bathroom sitting in an empty bath while reading the week before. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. The prepositional phrase in my pajamas is a modifier indeed all prepositional phrases are modifiers. Or one morning an elephant was wearing my pajamas and i shot that elephant.

How he got into my pajamas i ll never know this joke plays with the comic possibilities of the misplaced modifier. Funny movie assorted movie character animal crackers humor imagination experience happy. Animal crackers is a 1930 american pre code marx brothers comedy film directed by victor heerman the film stars the marx brothers groucho chico harpo and zeppo with lillian roth and margaret dumont it was based on their broadway musical of the same name in which mayhem and zaniness ensue when a valuable painting goes missing during a party in honor of famed african explorer captain. Growing up i even remember hearing a version of it on the pbs kids show arthur.

This line is spoken by captain spaulding played by groucho marx in the movie animal crackers directed by victor heerman 1930. A modifier is said to be dangling when the sentence is not clear about what is b. How he got into my pajamas i ll never know. How he got in my pajamas i don t know.

One morning i shot an elephant in my pajamas said groucho marx. One morning i shot an elephant in my pajamas. Back to all quotes. American s spell it pajamas.

How silly is that. And we grammar bores ought to be eternally grateful to him for offering us this beautiful example of a dangling modifier. This is a quote attributed to groucho marx. How he got in there i don t know this joke has been quoted misquoted parodied and paid homage to many times since then.

The second is quite fantastic yet from the next sentence we learn that the author had exactly this interpretation in mind. One morning i shot an elephant in my pajamas. The question is what does it modify. Well actually i guess pyjamas is sillier but i prefer that spelling.

The most natural interpretation is the first one. In this joke the first sentence has two meanings. In the 1930 marx brothers film animal crackers groucho marx tells a joke about an elephant.