http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwin_Ransom#Lewis.27_concept_of_Ransom
Granted, my source on this is Wikipedia, but it certainly makes a lot of sense. Ransom is a philologist, he was born about the same time as Tolkien, fought in WWI, is a professor, and a devout Christian. Plus, according to the Wiki article, "Elwin" is an Anglo-Saxon term translating as "Elf-friend."
On October 9th 1951, 37-year-old Frances Lyons and her husband 41-year-old James Lyons welcomed their son, Lawrence James Lyons, into the world. “Larry” as he was called by his parents, was born in Michigan City, Indiana at St. Anthony’s hospital via C-section.
Just after 6pm on October 13th, a nurses aid named Donna Rowlands noticed that Larry was not in his assigned crib. Donna informed Sister Mary Elwin, the head of the maternity ward, about the missing baby. After a frantic search of the hospital by staff, police were summoned and the search for baby Larry began.
Investigators started by establishing a timeline of when Larry was last seen, and by who. Around 10am Larry had been taken to the ward where Frances was still recovering. After that, he was taken back to the nursery. According to Donna, she had been in and out of the nursery, but had seen Larry around 5pm in his crib.
Hospital staff informed police that there were two entrances to the nursery. One of the entrances were through the main corridor on the fourth floor. This way passed by two nurses stations. The nurses stationed at these desks claimed to have not seen anyone enter the nursery other than other nurses and nurses aids, but also told investigators that between 5 and 6 pm was their busiest time. During this time, dinner was served and the nurses would occasionally leave their stations to assist with patients. That particular evening, two births had also occurred between 5 and 6 pm, so most of the other nurses were assisting with them.
The second entrance to the nursery was located through the milk storage room and was not in view of the public. The milk storage room lead into the nursery, but another door in the room lead to the “chart room.” In the chart room there was an emergency exit door that lead to a rear fire stairwell. Down the stairwell, was a back exit to the parking lot.
Marlene Lubs, a 16-year-old nurses aid explained to police that she was in charge of “showing” the babies in the nursery through the glass to family members. She informed them that less than two hours prior to Larry’s abduction, someone had asked to see him. Marlene said that while she didn’t remember what the person looked like, she did remember something unusual. The person had specifically asked to see Larry using his ID number, 415-1. (The numbers were assigned by what bed and room the mother was in to identify the babies in the nursery.) Marlene also explained that the nursery was full during
... keep reading on reddit ➡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!
They were cooked in Greece.
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
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!
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
But that’s comparing apples to oranges
And boy are my arms legs.
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
but then I remembered it was ground this morning.
Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale
Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments
They’re on standbi
A play on words.
My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.
Pilot on me!!
And now I’m cannelloni
Nothing, he was gladiator.
Or would that be too forward thinking?
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.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
When I got home, they were still there.
Hindus, on the other hand, never had any beef.
I won't be doing that today!
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.
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There hasn't been a post all year!
Where ever you left it 🤷♀️🤭
And then shook his arm really fast.
(True story, please groan with me.)
You take away their little brooms
