Andover, Kansas Puns

Hey all - This one is a little specific to my area, but the things I touch on are happening statewide.

There’s an election coming up - and by design it’s not framed in the normal hyperbolic partisan hackery. It’s designed that way because the election is for city government and school board - and when it comes to our local communities, and our children, someone way back realized it would be best if we all focused on the issue at hand, instead of the political rhetoric that typically afflicts elections.

But this is 2021, and we live in an era where everything is political. And I mean everything. There’s a radio show I sometimes catch, and they play a game called “How many comments until it turns political” or something along those lines. The punchline is that no matter the topic, no matter what someone posts on social media, it only takes three or four comments before someone interjects with a snarky partisan comment - which totally sucks the fun out of the original post and conversation.

We’re not immune to that in Kansas, or in Hutchinson.

I’ve read the news accounts about how “dark money” has entered school board races across the state - and across the country. This has turned the conversation away from the typically boring matters of school budgets and accepting small gifts for libraries or the football booster club into an all-out, old-school political brawl.

Campaigns for school board now seem to center on things like masks, remote learning, and other temporary, pandemic-induced anxieties. When this is over, I think we will still agree that we’ll want and need public schools to educate our children. I certainly hope our memories aren’t so short that we have forgotten that merely a year ago, people were worked into a lather because we NEEDED schools to watch our kids so we could work.

I’ll get back to this, but it’s not just school board races that are getting pulled into the industry of political gamesmanship.

Here in Reno County, the local Republican party is promoting a slate of candidates for city council. These “chosen” candidates have seemingly coordinated their campaigns, they mimic one another’s talking points, and they often appear together at community events - and not just like randomly showing up to the same place. Like at the Reno County GOP booth during community events in town. And they are promoting thes

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I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

Do your worst!

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

And now I’m cannelloni

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

And boy are my arms legs.

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

Heard they've been doing some shady business.