What is a sentence that makes you predict the rest of the story?

vis4valentine@lemmy.ml · 2 years

I was thinking about sentences that can tell the entire story on their own. I have 2 common examples:

I can already tell how is gonna develop and end. What other sentences you know that have this effect?

TOModera@lemmy.world · 2 years

“I’m not racist, but” oh, they are going to say something racist.

bionicjoey@lemmy.ca · 2 years

It’s fun to put “I’m not racist but” in front of totally innocuous statements.

I’m not racist but there’s a blue Hyundai parked outside my building.

OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works · 2 years

It still works. If I heard that my first thought would be “who are they racist against?”

snowe@programming.dev · 2 years

“I’m not racist but the weather is nice today“