George Zweig Puns

In 2020 I lost my job because of Covid. I have lived in Germany for years but my German had for a long time stagnated at the B2ish level where I could do most things I needed to do to get by, but I still felt very far away from, for example, being able to do job interviews and work in German (which, thanks to my unemployment, was now an urgent matter).

I started using the extra, unemployed time to improve my German, getting my B2 certificate towards the end of 2020. I generally read books, watched shows, made (paper) flash cards and generally tried to immerse. I was also seeing a German girl for a good chunk of that year, which definitely helped.

As 2021 rolled around, I decided to continue with the German, while making it my new year's resolution to learn a new language: Italian. My father's side of the family is Italian and my grandmother lives in Rome, so I had been plenty of times, but had shamefully never learnt the language, even though my native language is Spanish.

I also (perhaps stupidly) decided to pick up Russian. I was still unemployed so it made sense I guess, although that soon came to an end as I got a full time job in February. It's worth mentioning I am not a beginner in that language: I studied Russian at university for 4 years, of which I lived one year in Russia. Nevertheless, although I got my degree with good marks and could reasonably hold a conversation, I felt when I finished university that I was still so far away from just being able to read a book in Russian, watch a show without subtitles, etc. I studied it in the old-fashioned formal way: lots of focus on grammar, not enough input. The sheer insane complexity of the grammar also led me to the belief that I would never be able to learn the language without attending courses, focusing lots on grammar, etc. I moved to Germany after university and basically didn't use Russian for a decade. I went to Kiev in 2019, tried to speak and was horrified to realise I'd even forgotten how to say the days of the week! One day in December 2020, out of boredom, I decided to listen to the Comprehensible Russian Podcast with Max to see if I remembered anything of the language. It turns out I could more or less follow what he was saying! So maybe there was some hope...

It is around this time that I also heard about LingQ and Anki, and decided to start applying these apps to my language learning. I used LingQ especially intensively for Russian.

My German was already pretty well developed and

I guess the concept didn't work

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.

So a novella is usually between 10 000 to 40 000 words but some of my recommendations might be more in the novel range, however are still fairly short and great reads. I've been busy these past few years, so unfortunately I can't tackle larger books I generally prefer but these have still been fulfilling and awesome reads. (I'm happy to be corrected on any info that I post, I'm not a lit expert)

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• Chess Story/The Royal Game by Stefan Zweig - this is my favorite (that I've read so far) of Zweig's work, and was his last publication before his double-suicide with his wife. As the title suggests, it is a 'Chess Story' however speaks allegorically on the Nazi occupation of Austria. I love chess, but you don't have to love chess to love this story - the characters and simplistic storytelling are what makes this. (104 pages)
  (Another notable novella of Zweig's is Amok)
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - my favorite author who tells the story of a day in the life of a prisoner of Stalin's gulag system. It recounts the daily grinding designed to destroy a man's conscious and the small warmth in things like a crumb of food. (182 pages)
  (If you like this shorter book, I would definitely recommend his Cancer Ward (576 pages) - my favorite piece of all time)
• The Outsider/The Stranger by Albert Camus - "Maman died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know." A story of man named Mersault, who is truthful yet estranged from his society because of his indifference to it. (123 pages)
• Animal Farm by George Orwell - y'all know it, very... Orwellian. It's a good read. (141 pages)
• The Seventh Day by Yu Hua - an absurdist text that tells the story of the events surrounding a man's death (including his journey in the afterlife). It raises important questions about today's Chinese society and human nature. (224 pages)

1. On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore, or Blackmoor.

2. You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter.

3. The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.

4. “The Bottoms” succeeded to “Hell Row”.

5. All this happened, more or less.

6. You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.

7. Sitting beside the road, watching the wagon mount the hill toward her, Lena thinks, ‘I have come from Alabama: a fur piece.

8. Call me Ishmael.

9. My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.

10. It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.

11. When he was nearly thirteen my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

12. I was born in the city of Bombay… once upon a time.

13. If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

14. Scarlet O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.

15. What's it going to be then, eh?

16. A throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments, and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes.

17. The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.

18. Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton.

19. He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher—the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum.

20. I never sketch out anything in advance.

21. An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordin

A total of 1090 users submitted valid votes and the average number of authors read per user is 45 authors (out of 197 authors). The median number of votes an author received is 195 votes (Alice Munro, voted by 17.9% of users).

The selection is not complete in any way, but what these writers have in common is that they are all highly acclaimed. That’s why it would be interesting to discuss why some of them are read more or less often than others.

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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?

Mathematical puns makes me number

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.

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They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

He lost May

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.

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

And boy are my arms legs.

Put it on my bill

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 just don’t work!

BamBOO!

They’re on standbi

A play on words.

Calcium, nickel, neon

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My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.

We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.

Pilot on me!!