This is the third and final "round" of my Ogasawara (Tanuki) Incident posts. It is also the final submission to my course on the expository essay. Many thanks to my professor for her guidance. I touch here on many difficult personal memories for me that explain why I resonated so deeply with an obscure event back on April 27th, 1952. So many thanks to my so beautiful wife Julie who wouldn't let me stop writing and who had to literally put words in my mouth when I needed them.
April 27th, 2022βjust 6 months from nowβmarks the 70th anniversary of the Ogasawara (Tanuki) Incident. Julie and I were not living back then and there. We could not be part of the 47 young men who that evening clearly demarcated what Nichiren Buddhism is and what it is not.
But we are alive today to bear witness to and guide the next 70 years. We are the Tanuki Guardians. We are the Tanuki Generation.
Julie and I have been chanting for less than 6 months. We are not even official SGI members because we live so far from a Center. Yet we have a visceral feeling about Buddhism and Sensei. In an instant we could see through the lies about the Ogasawara Incident and peer right into its essence.
In fact, we have both adopted the Tanuki as our spirit animal:
>The animal has been significant in Japanese folklore since ancient times. The legendary tanuki is reputed to be mischievous and jolly, a master of disguise and shapeshifting, but somewhat gullible and absentminded.
We have invited our close friends to form with us a "Tanuki Tribe." Last Sunday out in in the Midwest, Moe and Larry, the two army buddies I introduced to the SGI, received their Gohonzons and were appointed as district leaders. I am an unofficial YMD district leader and Julie is an unofficial vice YWD district leader. Her two parents were just appointed unit leaders. Our new guests Eulogio and Delilah are taking their first steps, too.
We are formidable vanguards of the Tanuki Generation and packs of Tanuki are coming to districts near you! We are on the move.
I believe I was born to be a Tanuki. Following Frank Herbert's Dune storyline, the Bene Gesserit worked long and hard to locate the perfect parents to raise me. There is no other way to explain who I am.
My mother was a Maniot, born and raised on the Peloponnese Peni
... keep reading on reddit β‘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 π
It really does, I swear!
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
Theyβre on standbi
BamBOO!
Pilot on me!!
Nothing, he was gladiator.
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.
I won't be doing that today!
Christopher Walken
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Where ever you left it π€·ββοΈπ€
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!
You take away their little brooms
It was about a weak back.
Why
Itβs pronounced βNoel.β
After all his first name is No-vac
What, then, is Chinese rap?
Edit:
Notable mentions from the comments:
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Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits
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French/Finnish art
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Country/Canadian rap
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Chinese/Country/Canadian rock
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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)
But nobody ever mentions his sister, Onya, who invented the starter pistol.
Bob
