In Phase Puns

Emu

"But at least it's made with whole groins."

I make periodic periodic jokes.

I was a late doomer.

My parents named me Pete but I hated the name as a child. Other kids used to annoy me with stupid jokes like, "hey, Peter, a pirate stole your R!"

I begged my parents and had my name changed to Peter. But during my teen years, I hated my new name. It felt so common. There were two more Peters in my class! I changed my name to Passion.

Once I was out of my teen phase and began working, I started hating this name. I felt like my coworkers made fun of my name. My boss mocked me with, "For a guy named Passion, you don't show any during work." So I changed my name to Paul.

Now, I've grown old and quite tired of changing names. I don't care. But I'd like to do it anyway. I'm thinking of going back to my first name, the name my parents gave me.

In case you didn't understand…

Should I re-Pete myself?

There was a bug where an NPC in the game just phases through a door like there’s nothing right there.

Guess that’s what you get when watching a walkthrough gameplay video.

It's been really cold in my neck of the world lately. Today a coworker came into the office and said, "I'm freezing."

My other coworker replies, "You're just going through a phase."

I'm not entirely sure it's a dad joke (it wasn't "Hi freezing, I'm [name]"), and maybe it's only hilarious to us because we're chemists, but I thought this subreddit might enjoy this.

Context: Today was helping at practice for a play that my 4th grade daughters class is going to put on. My daughter (Sarah) was playing a tree, and another girl (Mikayla) was playing a Deer. Right now they're all into this weird "dating" phase. So Sarah ran over to me sobbing...

Sarah: Dad, Mikayla kissed my boyfriend. She is already dating Scott and Michael kissed her just now!

Me: Hoe dear, that sounds like a really sticky situation you're in.

I then proceeded to start laughing while failing to control it while my daughter started bawling. The other adults looked at me like I was a demon, and I had to leave the room for a minute to control myself.

Edit: Also I later realized that my daughter doesn't understand what a hoe is and thought I was just laughing at her. Don't worry, I have apologized and bought her ice cream.

Came out of the store and my daughter pointed out the moon. She's learning about moon phases and such in school.

Wife: "Is that a new moon?"

Me: "No... I think we've had that one for awhile."

It's still in the experi-lentlil phase

Ok so when I was about 11 I went through a phase when I was nearly ok with swearing or calling my parents names but still not mentally capable of swearing in front of my parents so I would call my dad a "donkey" whenever he was being a dick. After a while of calling him a donkey he would then respond with this every time I called him it....

"EEEEEEEOOWAYS CALLS ME THAT!"

He would then laugh for about 5 minutes at his own shitty joke. Pissed me off so much that I refuse to say the word donkey around him at all.

In walking through a park and observing the signs, ‘All dogs found on these grounds without their owners, will be shot,’ a friend of mine exclaimed, ‘That’s a hard case for dogs that can’t read.’

— Irving Browne, Humorous Phases of the Law, 1876

Due credit: Futility Closet

Friend: We're studying the 3 phases in Chemistry. Solids, Liquids, Gases...

Friend's Dad: What happens after you eat at Taco Bell.

My father had been in a phase where all he'd drink was wine from the Rhine region of Germany.

When the waiter at the Chinese restaurant asked what we wanted for drinks, my father, knowing that not all restaurants carry it, asked "Do you have Rhine?"

Waiter: Yes, of course

Dad: Ok, great, I'll have that!

Waiter (looking confused): Ahh, ok, you want red rine, or white rine?

Dad: uhh.. how about merlot?