Not a joke. But I wish it was.

I am not a dad. I am a daughter. For longer than I can remember, I have called my dad at "too early" times in the morning, woke him up, and told him a joke. This was a daily occurrence. Hence how I found this sub.

My dad died on Monday. You guys helped me wake him up with laughter so many times and I got to hear him laugh every day. Thank you r/dadjokes.

Edit: spelling

Wow I really did not expect so many people to see this post or to take the time to comment and reach out to me. Thank you all so much for your thoughts and kind words. It really means a lot. This is a great community and I'm so glad to have found it. As a mom to two beautiful little jokesters, I will absolutely continue pestering them with daily jokes and keep the tradition and the laughter alive.

For those asking, his favorite jokes were the really long ones that took forever to tell and had bad/ the best punchlines. The one that immediately sticks out was posted here either Sunday or Monday and was the last one I got to tell him. I will see if I can find it and figure out how to link. It was about a farmer who really loved tractors.

Thank you to the kind redditors who found it for me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/comments/slwg7y/bit_of_a_story_to_this_one_but_well_worth_the_read/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

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πŸ‘€︎ u/AndiPandi92
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My 11 yo son got out the car at school the other morning, right at the moment the gritter was driving by us spraying rock salt everywhere..

He got straight back in the car, looked at me with a completely serious face and said β€œI’ve just been assaulted”.

ETA: thank you so much for the awards, I showed him some (SOME!) of the comments πŸ˜‚ and it made his day, he was delighted that people actually enjoyed his joke to even just upvote and comment on it but actually couldn’t believe that people actually awarded it too (β€œpeople gave Reddit awards to it?? For my joke?? Like, did they actually mum or are you just saying that?!” so yea, thank you kind Redditors for making my 11yo extremely happy! You guys are the best 😊

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πŸ‘€︎ u/mcdubbg
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At the check out at Walmart and my son is sitting in the cart seat…

I’ve already pulled him and the cart up to past the check out folks so I could start putting bags in the cart. The women in the lane over says, β€œOh hello there handsome!” Obviously talking to my son, however I shout back, β€œOh hey! How’s it going?”
The woman checking us out laughed so hard she had to take a step back and the woman I said it to was so red faced and chuckling she couldn’t really say much! The few folks in line began laughing too so it was pretty funny and the epitome of dad joke! Ha! I’ve made it!

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πŸ‘€︎ u/SmokeScreen18
πŸ“…︎ Jan 28 2022
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Eating too much cake is the sin of gluttony

However, eating too much pie is fine as the sin of pie is always zero

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πŸ‘€︎ u/Ternessew
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When I am bored I enjoy rubbing dried herbs into my palms.

I have way too much Thyme on my hands.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/StormtrooperMJS
πŸ“…︎ Mar 19 2022
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Don't let your kids watch symphonies on TV.

There's too much sax and violins.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/XIIXOO
πŸ“…︎ Jan 26 2022
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Forbidden by my wife/kids from telling any more "dad jokes", I resorted to telling our dairy cow - and discovered she has a great sense of humor. I have to be careful, though...

When she laughs too much, milk comes out her nose.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/andersonfmly
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Who was the roundest knight at the Round Table?

Sir Cumference. He had too much pi.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/chacham2
πŸ“…︎ Nov 21 2021
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I was wondering why the chef was out of work all day

He had too much Thyme on his hands

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Moth

The moth drops down into the nearest chair and says β€œWhat’s the problem?”

Moth says β€œI don’t even know where to start. First of all, my boss is a vicious tyrant who gets off on the petty torments he puts me through day in and day out, and I’m too spineless to stand up to him, so I just take it and I’ve gradually come to hate myself for it. Also, every morning I wake up to the same prune-face old crone to whom I pledged my vows so many years ago. I used to love her, but that love has become like some sun-festering beached whale trying to die. We lost our daughter last year to one of the bitterest, coldest winters we’ve ever had to face in this region. Isn’t it funny, doc, how all the prayer circles and charity drives in the world amount to pretty much nothing in the face of that cold, impartial face of winter, that bleak, pounding, harsh fist of a callous environment, carrying on with its machinations without regard to our lives, loves, hopes and dreams? Isn’t that hysterical, Doc? Oh and then there’s my son. Doc, I don’t love him anymore. I don’t know what it is but I look in his eyes and I see that same harried look of gutless cowardice that I see when I stare at my own face in the mirror. If I wasn’t such a coward, Doc, I know I’d be able to scrape together enough pride to grab that cocked and loaded shotgun I keep by the bedside table, and just run amok and put an end to this grim facade once and for all. I start with the wife, then the boy of course before putting the barrell in my own mouth. Believe you me, Doc, I’d be doing the world a favor. I have nothing to look forward to but a continuation of this spiraling black hole that is my life, this existential cesspool that is the perpetuation of my lingering skid-mark on society. I despise people yet I crave their approval. I’m judgemental yet I care about nothing. I’m bitter, hateful and afraid. I’m alive yet I feel like the walking dead. This is it, Doc: I am a living, breathing, disease.”
The doctor stares at him for a while then finally says β€œJeez, Moth, you definitely have some problems. But I’m a podiatrist. You need a psychiatrist. Why’d you come in here?”
The moth says,”Your light was on.”

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πŸ‘€︎ u/cyahzar
πŸ“…︎ Mar 03 2022
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I said to my wife, "They say that childbirth is the most painful thing someone can experience..."

"Now, maybe I was too young to remember, but I didn't think it hurt that much."

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πŸ‘€︎ u/808gecko808
πŸ“…︎ Aug 22 2021
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Conversation through Microsoft Teams at work this morning I thought you'd all appreciate.

Person 1 (a mother): I'm having a hard time getting on the desk top.

Me (no kids yet): Just climb up, it shouldn't be that hard

Person 2 (a father): Do you need a step stool?

P1: Hah... hah...

Me: I feel like I'm ready for parenthood with that dad joke...

P1: Yeah, I mean dad jokes are pretty much 90% of parenthood... lol

P2: I was gonna say (my name here) you better be careful, that was an intermediate level Dad joke! Best to not get too close to (my wife's name here) haha

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πŸ‘€︎ u/tdkard28
πŸ“…︎ Mar 07 2022
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I wanted to immigrate to Finland

I waited in line for 3 hours, and finally came up to the desk. I asked the lady there β€œif it’s not too much trouble I would like to get started on my Citizenship for your fine country” she then tells me β€œgo to the back of the line please” I ask why, and she says β€œ because nice guys Finnish last”

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πŸ‘€︎ u/Cmen152
πŸ“…︎ Mar 05 2022
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My son recently started taking jujitsu classes and it got me thinking...

If everyone dressed up as ghosts, it'd be boo-jitsu!

If they served coffee, it'd be brew-jitsu!

If they wrestled cows, it'd be moo-jitsu!

If everyone celebrated each move, it'd be WOO!-jitsu!

If they only used chokeholds, it'd be blue-jitsu!

If they grappled inside old industrial chimneys, it'd be flue-jitsu!

If they wrestled pigeons, it'd be coo-jitsu!

If you ate too much Taco Bell before your match, it'd be poo-jitsu!

And then no one would want to pair up with you, so it'd be just you-jitsu!

I've been torturing my kid with these all night. :D

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πŸ‘€︎ u/ppardee
πŸ“…︎ Nov 02 2021
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Arkansas is where all the pirates from Kansas moved.

And they originally spelled it Cansas but being so far from the coast they found they missed the C too much.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/1000Huzzahs
πŸ“…︎ Feb 03 2022
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I initially wanted to make a joke about overflow errors...

But that's a bit too much.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/QuintenJV
πŸ“…︎ Jan 28 2022
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Why couldn't the guy that had a fungus allergy work in large strorage rooms?

Because there was too much room.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/Adamoxoror
πŸ“…︎ Feb 16 2022
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I lost a friend this week

I mean I like hide and seek as much as the next guy but he takes it way too seriously.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/VacantCake
πŸ“…︎ Nov 28 2021
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Why couldn't the gnome play outside with the other gnomes?

He had too much gnomework.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/Lava_Wolf_68
πŸ“…︎ Feb 04 2022
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Dad joke pro tip ( DJPT)

If your joke is punny avoid repetitive words. Don’t ask what Cows are the best at math if the punchline is cow-curators. Ask what farm animals, bovines etc.. the repetition focuses the brain too much it distracts from the funny

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πŸ‘€︎ u/jetty_junkie
πŸ“…︎ Nov 24 2021
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My wife and I were invited to a potluck dinner. I suggested we bring a chicken entree.

"No, she said. First of all, guests usually make a side dish. To make a main course might be seen as an imposition. Plus, chicken is a cliche, everyone makes chicken. Come to a potluck, everyone expects to see chicken. It's boring."

I said, "What about beef?"

"No, that would definitely impose on the host's prerogative to choose the entree," she said. "That's too much of an imposition. Also, beef is everywhere these days, so people will naturally expect a beef dish."

"Okay, then, how about we make something with a popular brand of canned spiced ham?"

"Perfect!," she said.

Because no one expects the Spam dish imposition.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/RonPalancik
πŸ“…︎ Nov 18 2021
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I want to help feed the hungry

But I have too much on my plate right now.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/Gingi0
πŸ“…︎ Jan 14 2022
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When my kids were young, I wanted them to watch the orchestra on TV, but I had to turn it off.....

Too much Sax and Violins.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/Echoherb
πŸ“…︎ Dec 06 2021
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I don't like movies about tennis

There's just too much back and forth

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πŸ‘€︎ u/Tea_Bender
πŸ“…︎ Nov 20 2021
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Why shouldn't you put more than 239 beans in a soup?

Because adding just one more would make it too farty. Straight from my 7 year old daughter.

Edit: Thank you so much for the awards and upvotes. I showed my daughter how many people saw and appreciated her humor and she's extatic. I know she probably didn't come up with the joke herself but this was one of the first times she really got me with a good one and I thought I'd share it with some fellow dads and others.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/oak05
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My scale stopped working.

I think it was under too much pressure!

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πŸ‘€︎ u/sandman369
πŸ“…︎ Dec 22 2021
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On a lone expedition through Bangladesh, I made the rookie mistake of exhausting my food supply.

After four days of nothing to eat I was delirious from starvation. In my desperation I went hunting for the first thing that looked remotely appetizing. Soon I stumbled upon an indigenous macaque, and with a focused throw of my spear I skewered it in one hit.

Only half the battle was over, though. I had no idea what to do with this corpse. I've cooked easy things like beef, poultry, and pork but never a monkey. Fortunately, a wandering traveler came by, so I asked him how I should prepare it. He said, "That's easy. Just boil the monkey. Nice and fast." Then he left.

While it did sound easy, boiled meat usually doesn't taste good. However, another wandering traveler soon meandered by, so I asked him what to do. He said, "If you're patient and want good flavor, slowly spit roast the monkey over a fire." He then walked away.

That sounded much better, but I was too hungry to wait that long. As fate would have it, a third wandering traveler sauntered by, so I asked for his advice. He said, "If you're pressed for time but still want something delicious, then skin the monkey, render its fat, and deep fry the meat in its own fat." He went on his way.

I had three unique options to pick from, and while I hadn't immediately chosen one I definitely learned something new:

There's no wrong way to eat a rhesus.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/JoeFas
πŸ“…︎ Nov 24 2021
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Christmas Lights

I don’t mean to be a Grinch and impede on the holiday spirit. However, those of you who are placing Christmas lights/decorations in your yards, would you please avoid anything that has red and blue flashing lights?

Every time I come around the corner, I think it's the police and I have a panic attack. I have to brake hard, toss my beer out the window, fasten my seat belt, throw my phone on the floor, turn my radio down, and push the gun under the seat. All while trying to drive. It's just too much drama, even for Christmas.

Thank you for your cooperation and understanding. Happy HolidaysπŸŽ„.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/EagleCreek79
πŸ“…︎ Nov 29 2021
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Why did the pirate couple get a divorce?

They were arrrrguing too much.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/dadsjokesnet
πŸ“…︎ Nov 30 2021
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Wife, Other Dad and I were discussing over text our favorite lettuce brand (Little leaf), and the following transpired….

OP: I’m a fan of the whole little leaf catalog! Love the deep cuts on Live in Romaine; they get right to the heart of it

Wife: Lettuce catalog? What even is this?

OP: And the emotion behind the vocals on β€œLettuce Be” are just wilting

OP: Love the guitar solo on β€œlicense to Kale” goes off like a Wild Rocket

OP: And when Kravitz joined them in β€˜97 for β€œArugula go my way”!!! That was just spicy

Other dad: Now you’re just having too much fun

Wife: you are literally going to get hidden with one more

OP: I really am

Wife: Don’t make me leave this chat.

OP: But who would want this fun to endive?

Wife: Last warning, Seriously

(Quick, I need more! I may be sleeping on the couch tonight, but at least I’ll be able to admire our FrisΓ©e in the living room)

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πŸ“…︎ Jan 05 2022
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Lesser known knights of the Round Table include the knight who would talk Internet stuffs out loud:

Sir I

and some of the others:

- The knight who cooks steaks the best: Sir Loin

- The knight who is always confident: Sir Tain

- The knight who charges you extra on top of the original price every time: Sir Charge

- The knight who operates on other knights after every battle: Sir Geon

- The knight who didn't take many chances: Sir Cumspect

- The knight who has the loudest battle cry: Sir En

- The knight who was afraid to fight: Sir Render

- The unbelievable knight: Sir Real

- The knights were so large that they sat around the a table by themselves: Sir Round and Sir Cumference

- The undercover knight: Sir Vallence

- The knight who came to an untimely end: Sir Cease

- The knight who never got killed in battle: Sir Vivor

- The knight who always guessed right: Sir Miser

- The knight who exceeded expectations: Sir Past

- The knight who overcame obstacles: Sir Mount

- The knight who showed up unexpectedly: Sir Prise

- The knight who funded the castle's operations: Sir Tax

- The knight who kept the kingdom maps up to date: Sir Veyor

- The knight who drank too much: Sir Rhosis

- The knight who always called on as the first substitute: Sir Rogate

- The knight who is the most outstanding knight: Sir Perb

- The hardest knight of them all: Sir Amic

- The knight who was most at home in a 3-ring castle: Sir Cus

- The saddest knight: Sir Rowful

- The extra knights: Sir Perfluous and Sir Penumerary

- The dancing knight (who was a cousin to Sir Lancelot) : Sir Prance Alot

- The one who also known as the Knight of Scales, Fangs, and Coils: Sir Pent

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πŸ‘€︎ u/OneHourRetiring
πŸ“…︎ Oct 21 2021
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As we were eating dinner my daughter asked why they were called Weakfish

I told her they used to be called mondaytuesdaywednesdaythursdayfridayfish but it was too much to say so they shortened it.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/stangkonia
πŸ“…︎ Dec 20 2021
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The only joke my dad ever uses

I took up origami for a while, but I gave it up because it was too much paperwork.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/yomommafool
πŸ“…︎ Oct 28 2021
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What do you get when you cross a Computer with a Hamburger?

A Big Mac!

(Too bad the place you get it from doesn't have much in the way of Windows.)

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Why does Jesus look skinny in most depictions of him?

He does too much Crossfit.

Credit goes to /u/HarleyArchibaldLeon for the original.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/Tamer_
πŸ“…︎ Sep 29 2021
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I REALLY wanted to go on a diet before the holiday season and all its feasts this year...

But I've got WAY too much on my plate right now, so I desserted the idea.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/andersonfmly
πŸ“…︎ Nov 21 2021
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Proud dad joke moment

Wife and I were folding clothes and I came across a dryer ball that escaped from the laundry room. I picked it up and, as is required by law, shouted KOBE as I tried to get it back into one of the laundry baskets. Me, not having great depth perception, missed horribly.

My wife, while still folding laundry, said "your hopes of ever becoming a basketball player crashed and burned right there."

She followed it immediately with a palm to the face and "oh God, I've spent too much time with you."

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πŸ‘€︎ u/spotted_sea
πŸ“…︎ Dec 02 2021
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I spilt the spice rack at home….

Now I got too much clap clap thyme on my hands

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πŸ‘€︎ u/PhoenixAurum
πŸ“…︎ Oct 29 2021
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I don’t think I can go scuba diving…

It’s just too much pressure.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/ExMoFoIdaho
πŸ“…︎ Sep 14 2021
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I’ve recently discovered I’m terrified of elevators, so I’m taking steps to avoid them.

I was a little afraid of speed bumps too, but I’m slowly getting over them!

UPDATE: Thank you so much for all the upvotes and amazing responses, fellow Dad Joke lovers. You make the world a happier place! 🀩

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πŸ‘€︎ u/Whoopass_voice
πŸ“…︎ Nov 12 2020
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Today I uninstalled a programm because...

It occupied a bit too much space on my disk

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πŸ‘€︎ u/ZZZ_Mike_ZZZ
πŸ“…︎ Nov 11 2021
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Why was the poodle fired from the Broadway show?

She was too much of a prima dogna

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πŸ‘€︎ u/Keithninety
πŸ“…︎ Nov 30 2021
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A few to get your Monday going...

Puns for Educated Minds ...

  1. The fattest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.

  2. I thought I saw an eye-doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.

  3. She was only a whisky-maker, but he loved her still.

  4. A rubber-band pistol was confiscated from an algebra class, because it was a weapon of math disruption.

  5. No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.

  6. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.

  7. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.

  8. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.

  9. A hole has been found in the nudist-camp wall.. The police are looking into it.

  10. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

  11. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

12.. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other: 'You stay here; I'll go on a head.'

  1. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.

  2. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab centre said: 'Keep off the Grass.'

  3. The midget fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.

  4. The soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.

  5. A backward poet writes inverse.

18.. In a democracy it's your vote that counts. In feudalism it's your count that votes.

  1. When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion.

  2. If you jumped off the bridge in Paris, you'd be in Seine.

  3. A vulture carrying two dead raccoons boards an airplane. The stewardess looks at him and says, 'I'm sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger.'

22.. Two fish swim into a concrete wall. One turns to the other and says, 'Dam!'

23.. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the craft. Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.

24.. Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says, 'I've lost my electron.' The other says, 'Are you sure?' The first replies, 'Yes, I'm positive.'

  1. Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root-canal? His goal: transcend dental medication.

  2. There was the person who sent ten puns to friends, with the hope that at least one of the puns would make them laugh. No pun in ten did.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/RetroGeekOfficial
πŸ“…︎ Aug 30 2021
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Why was the lumberjack assassinated?

He saw too much.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/Rare_Motor_9176
πŸ“…︎ Jul 26 2021
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Why do you get fat when you throw away food?

Because it goes to waste (waist).

My dad cracked this one while making fun of my mom for eating too much under the garb of refrigerator clearance to make sure no food goes badπŸ˜‚

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πŸ‘€︎ u/Modibhakshak
πŸ“…︎ Nov 21 2021
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After my future wife accidentally kisses my nose in front of her kid:

"Well, your nose needs some lovin', too. See [kid] nose what I'm talking about." "Because she's spending too much time at the ol' factory"

Crickets. I have work to do...

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πŸ‘€︎ u/BDLTalks
πŸ“…︎ Nov 13 2021
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Why does nobody like the British Army?

They give everybody too much SAS.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/AfraidDifficulty8
πŸ“…︎ Nov 09 2021
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