> Sex And Good Grammar
>
> For all of my grammatically correct friends:
>
> On his 74th birthday, a man got a gift certificate from his wife.
>
> The certificate paid for a visit to a medicine man living on a nearby Original American reservation who was rumoured to have a wonderful cure for erectile dysfunction.
>
> After being persuaded, he drove to the reservation, handed his ticket
> to the medicine man and wondered what he was in for.
>
> The old man handed a potion to him, and with a grip on his shoulder, warned,"This a powerful medicine. You take-um only a teaspoonful and then say '1-2-3.'
>
> "When you do, you become more manly than you ever been in your life. Can perform as long as you want-um."
>
> The man was encouraged. As he walked away, he turned and asked, "How do I stop the medicine from working?"
> "Your partner must say '1-2-3-4,'" he responded,
> "but when she do, medicine not work-um again until next full moon."
>
> Our hero was very eager to see if it worked so he went home, showered, shaved,
> took a spoonful of the medicine and then invited his wife to join him in the bedroom.
> When she came in, he began taking off his clothes and said, "1-2-3!" Immediately, he was the manliest of men.
> His wife was excited and began throwing off her clothes. But then she asked "What was the 1-2-3 for?"
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> And that, boys and girls, is why we should never end our sentences with a preposition, because we
> could end up with a dangling participle.