I thought this was funny and needed to be shared… 
(This is from the 365 Stupidest Things Ever Said Calendar)
I need a calendar like that!
Redwolf
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**The Society for
the Prohibition of
Recorder Playing and
Welsh Folk Singing
**
That’s an amphiboly–a structurally ambiguous
sentence. The New Yorker used to thrive on them,
as in
‘I’m looking for a book to teach me how to
play the accordian without success.’
‘You need no book! Just plunge boldly ahead.’
At a meeting in the 80s a very famous
philosopher decided he would get me
a job. He led me over to the Princeton
philosophy department contingent
and said: ‘This is Jim Stone, the
best unemployed philosopher in
America.’
‘Are you saying, John,’ they said,
smiling wanly,’ that he is the
philosopher in America best unemployed?’
This brings to mind a domestic services enterprise whose slogan ran something like:
“Why work your wife to death? Let us do the job!”