My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.
- Muhammad Ali -
What makes a joke a joke?
Does it have to be funny or is a joke still a joke just because it's intended to be funny, even if it isn't?
You might be wondering why this is on my mind but first I want to confess that I'm not good at telling jokes. That doesn't mean I can't be or am not funny, it's just that I'm not the joke telling type and my humour, what people find funny about me, comes in different ways.
Did you hear about the golfer who always wore two pairs of pants when playing golf? He was worried he'd get a hole in one.
That's not my joke, just a demonstration of what I don't do...tell jokes.
The reason this whole joke thing is on my mind is because the other day I made a joke and, to my great shame, it was a fucken dad joke, and not a good one - if such a thing even exists.
That's right, I made a joke.
My girl laughed although I think she was laughing at me more than the joke - in fact I know she was - but I was pretty pleased that it got a laugh until she said, "that's a joke your dad would have told!"
Don't get me wrong, I don't mind doing things the same as my dad did, it's unsurprising that I do I guess, I'm his son after all...but his dad jokes were so dumb and now...here I am doing the same thing. I'm not even a dad!
I can be a fairly intense sort of person, the experiences I've had over my life are partly the reason and my general personality leans that way naturally...but I can be the complete opposite also. It's situational and I'm careful where I show my lighter side only those close to me or whom I trust generally get to see it. I mean in the real life when I say that, on Hive it's a little different; I'm more relaxed mostly. Having said that, my sense of humour is, I think, something that people respond well to in my real offline world. You'd have to ask those people for confirmation I guess though.
Back to my dad joke.
The comment my girlfriend made about my joke, and the fact I made it, hit home about the way I'm developing as I get older.
I find myself doing things I remember my dad doing which I have not done in the past; not a bad thing as I said earlier, but a little confronting as it's happening more the older I get. Is this all about me getting older? I'm not sure, but looking in the mirror I see more of my dad than ever before. I'm ok with that, looking like my dad and getting older, that's what happens in life, but does that mean I can expect to make more and more bad dad jokes as well?
Ye Gods! I pity those who have to listen to them.
I'd like to tell you the joke I made.
I still think it's sort of funny which is probably the prerequisite for a dad joke, "sort of funny and the person telling it finding it hilarious despite others thinking it's dumb," - although I'm not going to tell it because it was so mindnimbingly stupid and out of context it may be even worse...plus a lot of you folks use translators which fuck up English bad enough as it is. But thinking back on it right now...I'm grinning at my joke...it was dumb but sort of funny...more dumb than funny maybe.
Are you good at telling jokes and do you do it often or do you suck at joke telling so avoid it? What about dad jokes? Do you sometimes find them funny or just tragic and stupid? Maybe you know a good joke, or maybe you think I'm a fucken joke; either way, feel free to comment.
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