Corbeny Puns

I have previously posted a few translated snippets from my great grandfather's journal, or diary, from WWI. See my recent post history for previous excerpts, if you haven't read them already. Text in italics are my comments, the rest is as faithful a translation as I can manage. I leave a few German words as-is, since they were written in German in an otherwise Danish text.

After two months of trenchdigging under near constant shellfire at the Somme in late summer 1916, the 121 Armierungsbatallion was relieved and given less dangerous work further from the frontlines for a while. We pick up the story again in february of 1917, in the Aisne region, when things are beginning to heat up a bit. They were at this time stationed at a barracks-camp that they had more or less built themselves, on a steep hillside near the village of Ployart (Now Ployart-et-Varseine). They built the camp on the hillside facing away from the front, so they were well protected despite being within artillery range. The camp was called "Hanglager", which I understand is a bit of a wordplay. "Hanglage" is a German word meaning "slope" or "hillside", and "lager" translates as "camp". "Hanglager", then, is "Camp Hillside". Ployart is said to be at the foot of the hill in question. Up until this point the Armierungssoldaten had all been unarmed, but now they were issued obsolete Gewehr 71 rifles and a small supply of equally obsolete black powder ammunition. They were also issued gas masks.

Anyways, here goes the story:

"In february this area recieved a large amount of new units, in particular they set up new (artillery-) batteries everywhere. Big cannons were set up near us, at Hanglager, Ployart, Bouconville, where there had never been any before. Nothing much had happened in this area since 1914.

This of course gave rise to much talk and guesswork as to wether it was the enemy or us that were about to go on the offensive. After a while, a rumour spread that the enemy would attempt a large breakthrough here near Reims.

It seemed strange, that the Germans knew so far in advance and could make the necessary preparations for a strong defense. The enemy must have screwed up somehow.

In the beginning of march, all civillians were ordered to leave. They were transported further away from the front. There could be no doubt any longer, this was clear evidence that something serious was about to happen.

We were also ordered to always be prepared to move at any moment, eve

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.

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

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!

Buenosdillas

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

Nothing, he was gladiator.

I won't be doing that today!

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You take away their little brooms

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

Why

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

• Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits

• French/Finnish art

• Country/Canadian rap

• Chinese/Country/Canadian rock

• Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap

There hasn't been a single post this year!

(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)

Nothing, it just waved

Him: I can explain everything!

(It's his best joke yet I think)

Bob

So that I could frequently say, "I am going to walk 5 miles now."

Edit: My most popular post on Reddit! 😀 Thank you for the awards.

Just to clarify, 12345678

Me grabbing a soda from my (what I thought was) half full 12pk...

Notices there's only 2;

Me: "Awe man... This is a damn bird box!" Her: "What the hell does that mean?!" Me: (Pulls both cans out & shows them to her) "It's only got Toucans."

I'm not ashamed to admit the look on her face was glorious.

I was just sitting there doing nothing.

“BOOM”?!

But nobody ever mentions his sister, Onya, who invented the starter pistol.

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