#126

Short, cheesy, makes you roll your eyes

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#127

What do you call a dog that can’t hear?

Whatever you like, it won’t come to you when you call it’s name

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#128

The aim of a joke is to make your audience laugh.

The aim of the dad joke is most definitely not to make your audience laugh. The aim of the dad joke is to make your audience groan and thereby confirm your status as someone who tells dad jokes.

It is used as sign and signifier of itself in so recursive a way it would give Derrida a headache.

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#129

Definitely agree with this.

Also think some dads decide that if their kids are going to treat them with scorn then they might as well do something that warrants scorn. If you can kid yourself that your children treat you with contempt because of your deliberately shit jokes, you don’t have to face up to the fact that they may hate you for who you really are.

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#130

I’d like to stand up for a dad jokes a bit here.

I don’t know that they’re deliberately shit. @ma0sm I’d say they’re jokes that should amuse an 8 year old still being told when you’re in your 20s. Obviously when you’re a parent to small kids you can only really tell deliberately OTT simplistic silly ones…then when they get older you still tell them because teasing your kids a little by being silly is what being a parent is all about. And before you know it it’s just a standard joke to tell whenever you can even though everyone else is over it.

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#131

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#132

I was reading a few of these out to my 5yr old daughter. She’s always asking for jokes. At one point, immediately after telling her one of these, she says β€œno daddy, tell me a joke”, as if completely unaware the one I’d told her was meant to be funny

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#133

Having slept on this I’m feeling a bit less nihilistic today.
There’s definitely a bonding aspect. It’s like a secret family language, maybe a ritual even (Hmmm, wonder if Joseph Campbell had anything to say about dad jokes). And as you say it’s something that evolves and creates a link back to childhood.

(I tell dad jokes all the time BTW)

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#134

The aim of the dad joke is to make the dad laugh. Pretty sure the dad is the intended audience too, the person to whom you are addressing the joke merely a witness to your side splitting humour

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#135

Nailed it

#136

Closely followed by the often muttered
β€œwhy do you always laugh at your own jokes?”

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#137

I can’t claim credit for the first part, it’s what M said last night when I told her about the β€œwhat is a dad joke” thing

#138

Two Eskimos sitting in a canoe were chilly so they lit a fire; it sank.
Just goes to prove that you can’t have your kayak and heat it

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#139

Would definitely add β€˜it’ to the end.

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#140

I like that you came here straight from the phrase thread

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#141

Nah

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#142

I have a very β€˜dad’ brain

#143

Me this morning, on the way to school: So what do you do on Fridays?
Daughter: Well first we have Free Writing, I’m going to carry on my story about… elaborates tediously about her story whilst I wait patiently for my chance
Me: Really? That sounds great! And it won’t cost you anything?
Daughter: Absolute silence.

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#144
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#145

Exchange regarding socially distanced football in my five a side group

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