| Two men were traveling {on
a motorcycle} [Adverb to
"were travelling"] {on a windy,
winter day.} [Adverb to "were
travelling"] When it became
too breezy {for one,}[Note
#1] he
stopped and put his overcoat {on
*his body*} backwards
to keep the wind {from
ballooning it away} [Adverb to "to
keep"[Note #2]
{from him.} [Adverb to "away"]
A few miles
further {on *their
way*,}
[Adverb to "further"]
the motorcycle
hit a tree, killing the driver and stunning the fellow
{with
the reversed coat}.
[Adjective to "fellow"] Later,
when the
coroner visited the scene, he asked a rookie policeman
standing nearby: "What happened?" "Well," the officer
replied, "one {of them} [Adjective
to "one"] was dead when
I got here, and {by the time}
[Adverb to "was" (below)]
I got the head {of the other one}
[Adjective
to "head"]
straightened around, he was dead, too."
Baude's Handbook of Humor for All Occasions.
Compiled by Jacob M. Braude.
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1958. p. 167
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