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For all 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
>> reservation who was rumored to have a wonderful cure for erectile dysfunction.
>>
>> After being persuaded, he drove to the reservation, handed his ticket
>> to the medicine man.
>>
>> The old man handed a potion to him, and with a grip on his shoulder
>> warned,
>>
>> 'This is a powerful medicine.
>>
>> You take only a teaspoonful, and then say '1-2-3.'
>>
>> When you do, you will become more manly than you have ever been in
>> your life, and you can perform as long as you want."
>>
>> 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 does,
>> the medicine will not work again until the next full moon."
>>
>> He 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 took 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, and then she
>> asked, "What was the 1-2-3 for?"
>>
>> 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.
 


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