Humor can be a funny thing (for example, what I just wrote). Almost anything our senses perceive can be “funny” and yet not everyone may find the same thing humorous (which may itself be funny). Humor comes in many forms but its’ desired result, knowingly or not, is always the same: Amusement.
Apparently, one form of humor is the “Dad Joke”: A short joke told by your Dad that you find embarrassingly lame. It’s usually one or two lines and ends by substituting a word or phrase you expected with a synonym or homonym intended to create humor.
Personally, I think “Dad Jokes” place too much blame on dad: Stand up comedy probably began a couple days after the emergence of Homo Erectus, graffiti has existed longer than the city of Pompeii’s ruins, and memes are as old as Ancient Greece. Besides, not everyone who tells a facepalm-inducing joke is a dad.
“Dad” or not, many of these lame jokes have potential as badly-drawn graffiti, captions for equally-lame memes or failed stand-up comedy. Enjoy!
• She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still.
• I thought I saw an eye doctor in Alaska, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.
• The fattest knight at King Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference, who acquired his size from too much Pi.
• No matter how much you push the envelope, it’ll still be stationery.
• A dog who gave birth to puppies near the road was cited for littering.
• A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.
• Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.
• A hole was reported in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.
• Time flies like an arrow. banana.
• Silence is Golden. Duct tape is Silver.
• Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
• While two hats were hanging on a hallway hat rack one said to the other: “You stay here; I’ll go on a head.”
• I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger…then it hit me.
• A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center read: “Keep off the Grass”.
• The midget fortune-teller who escaped from prison became a small medium at large.
• The soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.
• A backward poet writes inverse.
• In a democracy your vote counts. In feudalism your count votes.
• Two fish swim into a concrete wall. One turns to the other and says “Dam!”
• When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion.
• Jumping off a bridge in Paris would be in Seine.
• A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons. The steward looks at him and says, “I’m sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger”.
• Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the craft. Not surprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can’t have your kayak and heat it too.
• Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root canal? He wanted to transcend dental medication.
• Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says, “I’ve lost my electron!”. The other says “Are you sure?”. The first replies, “Yes, I’m positive.”
• There was the person who sent ten puns to friends, hoping at least one would make them laugh. No pun in ten did.
Did you know? The term “meme” is derived from the Ancient Greek word mīmēma (μίμημα; pronounced [míːmɛːma]), meaning ‘imitated thing’, itself derived from mimeisthai (μιμεῖσθαι, ‘to imitate’), and first used by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his book “The Selfish Gene (1976)” to express the evolution of ideas and culture in a society.
Thanks for Reading!
