The anticipation...

I'm an elementary school teacher. When kids tell me they're tired, hungry etc, I often give the typical "hi hungry, I'm Adam response"

On Friday a first grader came to me at recess and said "I'm bored!" I said "ok". She looked confused, then flustered, then blurted out "...nice to meet you Adam!" and ran away to play on the swings.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/HosstownRodriguez
πŸ“…︎ Mar 14 2016
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Regular fish get educated in schools, but where do sharks go for education?

Ok this requires a bit of context. In Norwegian, shark translates to hai. The answer is therefore:

Sharks go to Hai-Schools!

This is quite a classic, in norwegian, but as we don’t call groups of fish schools, i found this joke works for both languages! Hope you enjoyed!

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πŸ‘€︎ u/Imodigum
πŸ“…︎ Aug 31 2018
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[Meta] Dadjokes aren't just puns.

As a big proponent of the dadjoke I want to argue that a dadjoke is not just a pun. I see lots of material submitted here that might be better suited for /r/punny.

Speaking as a dad, for me a classic dad joke is highly dependent on the context.

I can't whip out old standbys at any moment and call them proper dadjokes. If I'm driving my kid to school I can't just ask him "Hey, do you know why the kids couldn't see the pirate movie? It was rated aaarrrgh!". That's just a bad joke.

OTOH, if my kid says "are" kinda funny (which he has before), and I make a joke about him being the youngest pirate I know (I may or may not have done this before), then that's a dadjoke. A shitty one, but still a dadjoke. The best context ones are where a situation presents itself and the dad takes the opportunity to make the lame joke (as in a post from awhile back where the OP overheard three or four dads make almost the exact same joke at an aquarium).

Straight up puns should go to /r/punny. Context specific jokes which rely on vagaries of the language or the funny situation, should stay here.

Just my two cents worth.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/smileyman
πŸ“…︎ Feb 04 2016
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After hearing a friend is pregnant:

I was at a friends house when her dad pulls this one:

Friend: "I went to Q barbecue the other day and I saw that girl Destinee I went to high school with, she is definitely pregnant!" Dad: "Looks like she'll be having Destinee's child...."

Classic.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/mwbrown3
πŸ“…︎ Sep 17 2013
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Dadjoked at Dinner

Sister: Ugh I have placement tests for high school all next week!

Dad: Where ya gonna place, 1st, 2nd, or 3rd?

Classic

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πŸ‘€︎ u/Analog2
πŸ“…︎ Dec 02 2014
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Pi-R-Squared

Here's a "classic" from my own father:

"I remember one time I was at my grandma's house as a kid. I was so excited to tell her what I'd been learning about in school that week. I was telling her about how we'd learned all about Ο€r^2 that week. She kept giving me funny looks and telling me that I was wrong, but I insisted that it was true, we had learned all about it. Finally she took me into the kitchen and opened the oven, where there was a pie baking. She pointed to the pie and exclaimed, 'Pie are ROUND!'"

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πŸ‘€︎ u/Mr_Grinspoon
πŸ“…︎ Dec 28 2013
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