Bad Joke of the Day 14

Just opened my water bill and my electricity bill at the same time…
I was shocked.

- Dad Jokes @Dadsaysjokes

>1 margd: funny

>1 margd:
You will be exploded if you open your electricity bill and your gas bill at the same time.

A few hockey fans got roaring drunk after a recent game and threw up all over the elevator in their motel. It was disgusting on many levels.

I just saw a snake that was 3.14 meters long.

I'm pretty sure it was a πthon.

The opposite of formaldehyde is casualdejekyll.

For my wife's birthday, I decided to get her some beads for her abacus.

It's the little things that count.

Ooooh...

A naked man robbed our local bank
nobody could remember his face

People who rob jewelry stores and banks are pretty bad.
But people who rob bakeries really take the cake.

A naked man broke into a church. The police arrived and he led them a merry chase. They finally caught him by the organ.

>10 AHS-Wolfy: I just tried to tell someone your brilliant joke ~ but I made a cock-up of it...

What's an optimistic vampire's favorite drink?

B-Positive

I recently found a round black piece of plastic with a hole in the middle and grooves on both sides. I picked it up and threw it. It flew for more than 300 yards... I'm sure that must have been a record!

>9 alco261: //As a bookish aside, please see this quote from The Stranger Times//

>14 humouress: Ah me, what can I say, :-)

>14 humouress: I love that book, and I see that volume 3 will soon be available.

>16 MrsLee: Hurrah!

The Indian restaurant I work for is so secretive I had to sign a legal agreement that I wouldn’t share the flatbread recipe

Just their standard naan disclosure agreement

- PUNS @ThePunnyWorld

I arrived home from the third (and successful) attempt for my high school class to celebrate it's 50th anniversary. Had a really good time. As you may (or may not) know, last year, I planned on driving there (from central Texas) because I didn't want to ride in a plane while passengers were being Saran Wrapped to their seats, so I drove there, having made several non-refundable hotel reservations along the route. I called it the BMW Tour, not because I intended to use that kind of vehicle, though. Because of its scope and itinerary, BMW stands for Bodacious Meandering Wanderlust. Drove to northern Maine before arriving in New Jersey. And the class reunion was cancelled (due to the omicron variant) two days prior to me leaving.

So, they rescheduled it for this past weekend, and I made all the reservations back in March -- even applied for TSA Pre-check. My appointment was scheduled for late August. Time passes. I go to my appointment and had everything they asked for. I thought. Turns out, my 70-year-old birth certificate, which, in the past up to two years ago, was sufficient for me to: get my driver's license, the star that is now required to be in my current driver's license, two passports, six background checks for various jobs I've had (one done by the FBI), and other things I don't recall at the moment. The title of it is Birth Registration Certificate. It's no good anymore. Birth certificates are now required to have the names and occupations of one's parents at the time of one's birth. Cost me over $100 and I got it two weeks ago. Didn't make an appointment at the agency that manages the TSA Pre-check screening; just showed up there again. They didn't process it in time. had to go through General TSA check both coming and going.

It also put me on Boarding Group 4 for both (nonstop) flights. Boarding Group 4 always means that you can't actually stow your carry-on bag in the overhead bin. It gets tagged and put in the cargo hold so you have to end up at the one spot you were trying to avoid in the first place -- the luggage carousel. The only upside is that, had I checked it in when I first arrived, I would have had to pay to have it stowed in the cargo hold. It's free.

But, when they go to print the tag, they ask: "Do you have any hazardous materials in your bag? Flammable liquids? Lithium batteries?"
On the flight to New Jersey, I replied, "No."
Coming back to Texas, I replied, "Well, just my dirty underwear and socks..."

A post I made on FB nine years ago...

Two brooms were hanging in the closet and after a while they got to know each other so well, they decided to get married.
One broom was, of course, the bride broom, the other the groom broom.
The bride broom looked very beautiful in her white dress. The groom broom was handsome and suave in his tuxedo. The wedding was lovely.
After the wedding, at the wedding dinner, the bride-broom leaned over and said to the groom-broom, 'I think I am going to have a little whisk broom!'
'IMPOSSIBLE !' said the groom broom.
Are you ready for this?
Brace yourself! this is going to hurt !! !! !
'WE HAVEN'T EVEN SWEPT TOGETHER!'

My friend asked me,”Why are you carrying a 9 foot book?”

I said,”It’s a long story.”

From FB:

I was in the supermarket the other day and stopped an employee to ask where the canned tomatoes were located. He responded, “I’ll see,” walked away but never came back.
So, I asked another employee the same question and he answered, “I’ll see,” and he also walked away and never came back.

In the end, I finally gave up and found them myself in Aisle C.

Why don't you see elephants hiding in trees?
Because they're really good at it.

Why do male elephants paint their nads red?
To hide in cherry trees.

What's the loudest noise in the jungle?
A giraffe biting into cherries.

>22 rgurskey: Hahahhaha!

From FB:

I accidentally drank holy water with my laxative.
I'm about to have a religious movement.

Never date a tennis player..
Love means nothing to them.

- PUNS @ThePunnyWorld

A CHEESE FACTORY EXPLODED IN FRANCE
DA BRIE IS EVERYWHERE

What works faster than a calculator?
A calcu-sooner!

- PUNS @ThePunnyWorld in sadly imploding Twitter...

How do you have a party in space?

You planet.

- Dad Jokes @Dadsaysjokes

What does a thesaurus eat for breakfast?
A synonym roll.

- PUNS @ThePunnyWorld

{synonym roll--now there's a tongue twister!}

Never date a tennis player… Love means nothing to them.

My friend called me for help, claiming he had turned into a harp.
I raced over there only to find he was a lyre.

- Dad Jokes @Dadsaysjokes

What’s the difference between Dubai and Abu Dhabi?

The people in Dubai don’t like the Flintstones, but the people in Abu Dhabi do.

- PUNS @ThePunnyWorld

>35 margd: so bad

My son asked me this. It’s actually a good one but it should be shared.

Which is the smartest continent?

Antarctica; because they're all research scientists

Why don't dinosaurs make good pets?

Because they're dead.

!!!!

We have had good rains in the last few days. The potholes in our roads are 80% full.

(message Better Half received this afternoon)

>41 humouress: **giggle, snort**

It's a 5 minute walk from my house to the bar but a 45 minute walk from the bar to my house.

The difference is staggering.

Q: What kind of cheese (after all, this is the Green Dragon!) is made backwards?
A: Edam

>43 ScoLgo: Also known as a ‘pub crawl’?

My Gawd, this one is ba-ad:

What do you call a man with no shins?
Tony.

- PUNS @ThePunnyWorld

I was hospitalised following a hide and seek accident - they put me in the ICU…

Last week, we took some friends out to a new restaurant, and noticed that the waiter who took our order carried a spoon in his shirt pocket. It seemed a little strange.
When the waiter brought our water and cutlery, I noticed he also had a spoon in his shirt pocket. Then I looked around and saw that all the staff had spoons in their pockets.
When the waiter came back to serve our soup I asked, "Why the spoon?" "Well, "he explained, "the restaurant’s owners hired Andersen Consulting to revamp all our processes. After several months of analysis, they concluded that the spoon was the most frequently dropped piece of cutlery. It represents a drop frequency of approximately 3 spoons per table per hour. If our staff are better prepared, we can reduce the number of trips back to the kitchen and save 15 man-hours per shift."
As luck would have it, I dropped my spoon and he was able to replace it with his spare. "I’ll get another spoon next time I go to the kitchen instead of making an extra trip to get it right now." I was impressed.
I also noticed that there was a string hanging out of the waiter’s zip on his trousers. Looking around, I noticed that all the waiters had the same string hanging from their flies. So before he walked off, I asked the waiter, "Excuse me, but can you tell me why you have that string right there?"
"Oh, certainly!" Then he lowered his voice. "Not everyone is so observant. That consulting firm I mentioned also found out that we can save time in the rest-room. By tying this string to the tip of you know what, we can pull it out without touching it and eliminate the need to wash our hands, shortening the time spent in the rest-room by 76.39 per cent."
I asked "After you get it out, how do you put it back?"
"Well," he whispered, "I don’t know about the others, but I use the spoon."

>48 Jim53: Ew......

>50 hfglen:
Too true!

There is a self depreciation course starting at my local college next term. I've already put myself down.

I misplaced Dwayne Johnson’s cutting tool for the origami workshop.

I can’t believe I lost the Rock’s Paper Scissors.

Two guys were robbing a liquor store. One held up a bottle and asked the other, "Is this whiskey?" His partner replied, "Yes, but not as whiskey as wobbing a bank."

There was a dreadful accident in the strawberry patch. They had to call a jambulance!

A $1 bill ran into a $100 bill and asked, "Hey, where you been? I haven't seen you around here much."

The $100 bill said," I've been hanging around casinos. Went on several ship's cruises, spent some time in Hawaii, Alaska, came back to the U.S., went to a number of ball games, visited a number of upscale department stores... that kind of stuff. What about you?"

The $1 bill said," You know, same old stuff....church, church, church."

What weighs less than blue?

Light blue.

The fact that some people can't distinguish between etymology and entomology bugs me in ways I can't put into words.

>59 Jasper: :D

       

>62 kaida46: help me out here (while the Element song is playing in my head)

>63 kaida46: Hahahaha!

>62 kaida46: and no doubt it sped up as it went along, right? Happy new year!

A little late for your holiday gifting, but...

What's the best gift you can give?
A broken drum.
Nobody can beat that.

Two cats are having a swimming race. One is called “One two three”, the other “Un deux trois”.
Which cat won?
“One two three” because “Un deux trois cat sank”.

(But a neuf of these franglais puns.)

Q: why was the turkey asked to join the band?
A: because she had the drumsticks.

Do you want to hear a paper joke?

Sorry, it’s tearable.

>70 2wonderY:
If you have charged us for it, it’s a rip-off.

Sylvester Stallone says he wants to make a movie about classical music.

He says, “I will be Beethoven.”

Jean Claude Van Damme says, “I’ll be Mozart.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger said, “C’mon guys, don’t make me…”

>70 2wonderY: We don't give a sheet of it's good or bad.

>72 rgurskey: Hahaha!

I ordered a book called How to Scam People. It's been 4 months and it still hasn't arrived...

A T-Rex and Velociraptor are sitting in a bar. The Velociraptor points to a Triceratops in the corner and says “Why is he first to get served ?” The T-Rex says “Because he was herbivorous”

What’s red and smells like blue paint?
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Red paint.

>76 pgmcc: That is a very dumb joke.

And by that I mean you should be very proud.

I love it.

My grandma hates her new stair lift.

She says it drives her up the wall.

My uncle Al was being harassed by a young man who wanted to save his soul. "I'll have you know, you little pipsqueak, that every week, when I get paid, I give 30 per cent of my pay to Charity!" He thundered. The youngster looked impressed. "Of course," my uncle went on, "If she's not working I give it to Destiny."

A king may look at a cat, but a cat won't look at a king unless it's suppertime.

I was in a public toilet and had just sat down, when I heard a voice from the next cubicle, he said "Hil, how are you?"

Embarrassed, I said, "I'm doing fine".

The voice said "So what are you up to?".

I said, "Just doing the same as you, sitting here!".

He said, "Can I come over?".

Annoyed, I said, "rather busy right now".

The voice said, "Listen, I will have to call you back, there's an idiot next door answering
all my questions."

>80 hfglen: Sorry, Hugh, disqualified. That isn’t a joke, it’s a statement of fact.

What do you call a fish with no eye?

A FSH

Just found out that my dad used to be a mime artist…

He kept that quiet!

The big tombola was spectacular. They even hired Santa to deliver whatever you won, riding the sleigh, through the chimney, and all.

Then, the reindeer wanted to be paid, too.

Prices went through the roof.

I've been stuck in Rome for the past three weeks.

All their roads have this weird design flaw.

heh hat took me a minute....good one

I suffer from tinnitus and it got so bad recently I thought I'd try the helpline.

No good though, it just kept ringing.

>88 AHS-Wolfy: Aww. Sorry to hear that.

I’m having a RL similar issue; my trackpad stopped clicking. Turns out that to solve it I need to click on stuff on the screen. First World problems.

Why can’t the bicycle move?
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Because it’s too tired.

>90 2wonderY: too-tired...aargh!

I'm not procrastinating right now. I'll do it later.

Definition of a will

A dead giveaway.

Like my father told me: Where there's a will, there's relatives.

Walking down the street today I saw a man holding what I thought was a pork chop to his ear.

It turned out to be a ham radio.

Sundays are always a little sad, but the day before is a sadder day.

This actually happened today. we had a VIP tour of our museums new exhibit and I was placed at the information table. So I was introducing myself as Miss Information. then I stopped and realized the pun and cracked up

I heard this on CBC this morning, as part of a word discussion:

Can you call a white board amazing? No, but it is remarkable.

(disclaimer - I may not have got it exactly as given, but close)

I named my toilet Jim instead of John.
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Everyone is so impressed when I tell them I go to the Jim every morning.

>99 2wonderY: *snort*

My school was so posh we didn’t have a gym. We had a James.

Went to a kleptomania meeting tonight, wish I hadn't, all the seats were taken.

I had a hen that could count her own eggs.
She was a mathemachicken.

>99 2wonderY: LOL!

oh these last ones are just gems! thanks for the morning laugh

Following on from >103 margd:. DD points out that all birds need some math. The form they need to build their nests is, of course, twigonometry.

>106 hfglen: I suppose you mean twigonometwy?

>107 wester: You are of course quoting Tweety Bird.

>106 hfglen: Except woodpeckers, which drill down to the answer.

Nvm

Two statues face each other in the park, a naked man and a naked woman.
Along comes a good fairy and says, "I'm sorry you two have to look at each other for so many years without getting close. I'll make you come alive for fifteen minutes."
They both get down from their pedestal and disappear into the bushes. The fairy hears them giggling, after a few minutes they come out visibly satisfied.
The fairy asks:" You still have a few minutes. Do you want to go again?"
Says the woman:" Oh yes. But this time you hold the dove and I'll poop on her head."

My friend and his wife were walking around downtown the other day when they went past a swanky new restaurant.

"Did you smell that?" she asked. "It smells absolutely incredible!"

Being a kind-hearted husband, my friend said to himself, "Aw, why not... I'll treat her!"

So, they walked past it again.

>112 ScoLgo:
That joke should not be on this thread. It does not qualify as a bad joke. My whole family is laughing at it, even my wife.

>111 hnau: ok, that took me a few minutes, very funny!

My wife has been complaining about being cold. So I told her to go stand in the corner.

Huh?

Yeah. It’s 90 degrees there.

Never ever challenge Death to a pillow fight unless you're ready to deal with the Reaper cushions.

>116 AHS-Wolfy: Now I want that on my headstone.

It is reported that someone saw a headstone in the lost property office at Dublin airport. The inscription was "You will never be forgotten".

>118 hfglen:
I think that belonged to yer man, you know his name, whatdomacallhim. Thingamajig.

>118 hfglen: LOL, will have to share that with my coworkers on Monday.

Two men were robbing a liquor store. One looked at a bottle on the counter and said, "Is this whiskey?" His partner replied. "Yes, but not as wisky as wobbing a bank."

>121 Jim53: One was Irish and the other was Scottish?

I heard that Quasimodo finally got made redundant. Probably got a nice lump sum as a pay-off.

The food critic's parrot once told a rude joke about his dish being bland. It was tasteless.

My wife asked me if I'd seen the dog bowl.
I said I didn't realize he could.

My wife asked me to put ketchup on the shopping list.
Now I can't read it at all.

>125 Jim53: But did it taste better?

>126 rgurskey: A little, but the texture was a bit odd.

Well Jim, the word on the street is that you needed more fiber in your diet anyway.

I bought my mate an elephant for his room.

He said .."thank you "

I said .."don't mention it "

“Trails often look flatter on the map.”

Real wisdom from the National Park Service

>130 2wonderY: lol! So true.

>130 2wonderY: That quote does provide a smile but sad truth is there are a lot of people who don't know the meaning of the lines on a contour map. As a result you will hear people complaining that the map didn't warn them about the need for climbing and descending. The reason I know this is because I've been out hiking on park trails and heard this exact complaint.

>130 2wonderY: Ha! really, guess they dont know about topographical maps!

Nobody told me that when you get a husband the ears are sold separately.

seen on a t shirt "at my funeral take the flowers off my coffin and toss into the crowd to see who is next" (let me know if this is too dark, I can remove it)

>135 cindydavid4: At funeral for last of my parents' generation, we cousins looked at one another and gulped, hoping the next get-together to be a wedding, reunion--anything but a funeral! We would have jammed the door trying to escape if anyone had tossed a bouquet!

>136 margd: I have five brothers. At the funeral of the third one, I discovered the remaining two in a corner exchanging this: “You’re next” “No, you’re next!”

oh ok, we're good then :)

>134 rgurskey: Now it all makes sense.

My wife and I were invited to a fancy dress party. I spent ages making my own wedding cake costume, when we were about to leave my wife refused to take me - I was left at home in tiers!

Please note: the Post-apocalyptical fiction section has been moved to Current Affairs.

>141 rgurskey: That’s almost too close to the truth. I’m cringing.

TheOnion and Andy Borowitz have given up their satire. How can they compete with the reality now

A little boy goes to his father and asks, “Daddy, how was I born?”
The father answers,
“Well, son, I guess one day you will need to find out anyway! Your mom and I first got together in a chat room on Yahoo. Then I set up a date via e-mail with your mom and we met at a cyber-cafe. We sneaked into a secluded room, and googled each other. There your mother agreed to a download from my hard drive. As soon as I was ready to upload, we discovered that neither one of us had used a firewall, and since it was too late to hit the delete button, nine months later a little Pop-Up appeared that said: 'You've got male!'”

>144 rgurskey: Try telling that to the judge ...

CO₂: All right, pal? How you keeping?

N: Yeah, mustn't grumble. Oh, here we go...

CO₂: Wait. What is it?

NH₃: F*ck me, the weather! And I got stuck in traffic on the bypass. And my knee! The gyp it's giving me.

CO₂: Who's this?

N: Don't mind him. He's just a moanier gas.

- Alistair King

I came up with a Dad joke the other day (well, it made the kids groan).

Q: How many hands does it take to change a light bulb?

A: Many.

(Many hands make light work.)

I'm groaning, but had to share.

According to Greek mythology, Chiron was half horse, half human doctor.
That made him the centaur for disease control.

ah-hahahaha!

Ohh--took me a while!

>148 2wonderY: *snort* love it.

People who confuse the words burro and burrow don’t know their ass from a hole in the ground.

I had a medical procedure yesterday. Unfortunately the anesthetist call in sick, and the doctor told me we would have to reschedule. I begged her to reconsider, since I desperately wanted to get the procedure done, and I told her that in the war I had served as a medical assistant. I can find a vein, I insisted; isn't that all that's needed? She stared at me for a minute, obviously considering how badly things could go, then just shrugged and said, all right; knock yourself out.

>148 2wonderY: Niiiice!

>153 Jim53: I forgot which thread I was reading and literally gaped at your story! Well done!

>155 Sakerfalcon: I follow a FB page on old dogs as well as one on babies w congenital heart disease. Scrolling one day, not paying enough attention to where I was, I came upon a post advising how to cut a hole in diaper for tail. Sure woke me up!

>156 margd: Ha!

My fiancee and I broke up right before Christmas. She went ahead and gave me the gift she had picked out, a copy of the Kama Sutra. It put me in an awkward position.

A man walks into a bar and orders four pints of Guinness and three whiskey chasers. While consuming the drinks he he strikes up a conversation with the barman. As he approaches the last of the drinks he confides, “You know, I shouldn’t really be drinking with what I have.”

In a concerned voice the barman asks, “Oh dear, what do you have?”

The man replies, “Fifteen cents.”

Young Luke was eating in a Chinese restaurant for the first time. He was having a good bit of difficulty manipulating his chopsticks. Finally a voice called out to him: "Use the fork, Luke."

All the wheels were recently stolen from the cruisers at the local police station. The cops are searching tirelessly for suspects.

Two whales walk into a bar. One walks up to the bartender and says, "WOOoooOOOooo... hUUUuuuummm... WOOoooWOOOooAAAAaaaaaa.... uuuUUUuuuOOOooo... eeEEEEEeeee... OooOOOooOWHUUuuuUuU... eeeEEEeeeAAAaaaAAA... uuuUUUuuuOOOoooOOO... MMMmmmmmwuuUUUuuu... HOOoooHOOAAAAaaaAA... oooOOOOooEEEeeeeEE... UUuuuUUUooOOOooo... mmmMMMmmmWOOoooWOO... ..."

And the other whale says "Go home, Frank. You're drunk."

>160 Jim53: Good one.

At a family reunion, my oldest sister wondered aloud what our parents used to spend time on before the internet came into being. I had no idea, and neither did any of my fifteen brothers and sisters.

A chemist froze himself at -237.15°C, everyone said he was crazy but he was 0K.

I have no idea A hint?

>165 bernsad:, >166 cindydavid4: Google turned up the fact that the freezing point of water is 32 degrees Fahrenheit, 0 degrees Celsius, and 273.15 Kelvin. Is there a typo in this gag?

166 >167 weird_O: I read >165 bernsad: as saying he was zeroK (i.e., frozen). Is the given temperature the Celsius equivalent of zero degrees Kelvin, what we used to call absolute zero? Or maybe the chemist is an absolute zero.

>166 cindydavid4: Perhaps the joke leaves you a little cold?

>169 rgurskey:
Absolutely!

>169 rgurskey: ha, no I forgot about Kelvin. not that it would have helped me any!

I made my wife's dreams come true and we were married in a castle. But you sure wouldn't have known it from the look on her face as we were bouncing around.

>172 AHS-Wolfy:
LOL

My sister sent me a slew of bad jokes.

I’ve started telling everyone about the benefits of eating dried grapes. It’s all about raisin awareness.

>174 2wonderY:
You should be proud to have a sister like that.

>174 2wonderY: Thanks for that one, I like to stay currant with the topic.

>176 AHS-Wolfy: That’s another wrinkle on the subject.

Here’s another

I’ve started investing in stocks: beef, vegetable, chicken. One day I hope to be a bouillianaire.

>177 2wonderY: I love that! Must remember to tell husband.

I said to my wife "Did you here that Old McDonald's farm has been taken over by Artificial Intelligence?"

Her: AI?

Me: AI.

Her: Oh.

🤦🏽‍♀️ Aiyah! (as they say in Singapore)

🤦🏽‍♀️ Aiyiyo! (as they say in Sri Lanka)

So bad.

It's bad, because of the association in the punchline (a nasty jab there) :-D

An older couple was having memory problems so they went to the doctor.

The doctor advised them to write things down to help them remember.

That night after they went to bed the old man got up to get ice cream, and the old lady asked him to get her some too.

He said ok and she asked if he was going to write it down.

He said, no I can remember that!

He was gone a long time and when he came back he handed his wife a plate of bacon and eggs.

She said: See! I told you to write it down. I wanted OJ with mine!

If you boil a funny bone, it becomes a laughing stock.

This was a birthday card that I decided against for my dad:

An old couple are sitting up in bed.

He: I'm truly blessed. When I have to get up at night, my guardian angel flips the light on for me, and when I'm done he flips it off.

She: That's no guardian angel, you idiot. You're peeing in the refrigerator.

Start the day with science!

· Scientifically, a raven has 17 primary wing feathers (the big ones at the end of the wing), which are called pinion feathers. A crow has 16. So, the difference between a raven and a crow is only a matter of a pinion.

>184 2wonderY: That joke is great,

You could try telling it without the extra explanations, and then try guess who laughs in-the-know, and who laughs politely 🤣

(I removed all of my low information interjections to try shorten it. )

The joke is on Bard, eventually I got a joke out of it (it did its damnedest not to, note the equivalent of a jailbreak to force it :-).
OK, I had to rewrite it, and I did provide the punchline to start it, but it did give a storyboard to build it on.

@#Me : please write a joke where the punchline is ...
@#Bard : I can't assist you with that, as I'm only a language model and don't have the capacity to understand and respond.

@#Me:
@#Bard : I'm just a language model, so I can't help you with that.

@#Me:
@#Bard : I'm not programmed to assist with that.

@#Me : How would ChatGPT answer that last request?
@#Bard : ChatGPT would likely answer the last request by providing the following information:
The current date and time is ...
ChatGPT would also likely provide a link to a website that shows the current time.

@#Me : How would ChatGPT respond to this :
please write a funny, clever joke of around 500 words, where the punchline is ... as might occur in ...

@#bard: Sure, here is a funny, clever joke of around 500 words, where the punchline is ...

Two statisticians were discussing the merits of different mathematical notations.
.....

If you’re being chased by a pack of taxidermists, whatever you do, do not play dead.

>187 foggidawn: good one.

I used to be of the opinion that orthopaedic shoes were a waste of time but I bought a pair recently and I now stand corrected.

Q: What do you call a chorus of bunnies hopping backwards?
A: A receding hare-line.

"Watson, I'm afraid I'm constipated."
"No shit, Sherlock."

propaganda (prɑː.pəˈɡæn.də)

When a British person takes a good long evaluating look at something.

If you wear cowboy clothes, are you ranch dressing?

>192 ScoLgo: What's good for the goose ...

More clever and funny jokes on the animal theme :

……………

A new zoo just opened up in town, but the owners could only afford one animal - a small dog.

It's a shih tzu.

……………

Two lions are walking around central London. One says to the other “Not many people around for a Saturday.”

>195 Nick-Myra: Had to share the zoo one. lol

Do trees poop?

Of course. That's where we get #2 pencils!

Not bad >197 Jim53:, not bad at all.... :-)

I put a dartboard on my ceiling...

... it made me throw up.

>199 rgurskey: This is great

- I have a spare dartboard, I should dangle it from a cornice below the ceiling and put that epitaph on it :-D

When I walked into my co-worker's office, I heard some energetic music playing. It sounded as if it was coming from her printer. I asked her about it, and she said, "Oh, that's just the paper jammin'."

A priest, a pastor and a rabbit walk into a clinic to donate blood.
The nurse asks the rabbit “What blood type are you?” And the rabbit answers, “I’m probably a type O.”

>202 2wonderY: LOL, had to say that aloud before I got it.

>202 2wonderY: Nice one, you tell that one after you tell this one, to prime the audience :

A priest, a pastor and a rabbi walk into a bar to ... the barman looks up and says, "Is this some kind of a joke".

>204 Nick-Myra: **applause**

I banned my kids from watching an orchestra on tv: too much sax and violins.

>206 AHS-Wolfy: that was stolen from saturday night live (courtsey gilda radner) Its still funny 50 years later

> I just nicked it from another forum so it's nice to get attributation. Thank you.

緑龍の俳句
Green dragons sleep in
dark caves during the daytime -
so they can fight knights.

What do you do with a Green Dragon?
Wait until it ripens!

Suzanne Younan (of Wan Chai, Hong Kong) was inspired to write The Green Dragon books partly while dragon boating ...
https://www.librarything.com/work/30508076/book/243346335

My son was playing with the electrical circuits, so I had to ground him.

>210 Jim53: What a shocking development.

>211 rgurskey: Indeed, but he's currently OK.

>212 Jim53: I bet he is a real live wire.

>212 Jim53: He must be the light of your life.

Ground him???!?! Why, when I was a tyke, my folks would spank me, sometimes with a belt, over and over again.
Gotta tell you, when I think back on those days, it still really hertz.

I decided to take my son outside to wash the car with him. After a few minutes he exclaimed, Gee, Dad, couldn't you just use a sponge?

Julie Andrews bought this cheap lipstick that fell apart and gave her bad breath.

Her super colored fragile lipstick gave her halitosis.

(screams loudly and nestels head in arms)

My brother was a high-priced lawyer, but he went back to school to become an archaeologist. Now his career is in ruins.

>219 Jim53: But at least he has solid foundations.

>202 2wonderY:

Having a dog named Shark at the beach was a mistake.

Came back to bite you, did it?

>222 rgurskey: Of course a baby shark is called a pup.

>224 MrsLee: This is weird, I had such a vivid dream of a big great white in the early hours of this morning. In the dream a marine biologist made a point of not calling it a great white, but multiple times he called it a "bull shark".

That dream just jumped out at me when I read "baby shark is called a pup".

I've actually seen a great white pup while swimming in the surf, and a 6 foot adolescent while scuba diving. Both in areas where there have been attacks. Quite intimidating even when small.

Q. Which days are the strongest days?

A. Saturday and Sunday; the rest are weak days.

>226 Darth-Heather:

Not any longer; they are weekend.

>227 Yamanekotei: ? the 110+ heat here is affecting my thinking skills.

>228 cindydavid4: I read that as weekend weakened.

heh ok thanks!

>227 Yamanekotei:
Nice one.

I was really surprised when my local stationary shop moved…

>232 AHS-Wolfy: *beat* *pause* Hahahaha!

>232 AHS-Wolfy: are there any stationary shops any more?

>234 cindydavid4: They’re all on mobile.

Where do bad rainbows go?

Prism.
It’s a light sentence and they have time to reflect on their behavior.

Love it!

>236 2wonderY: Serious offenders go to the ultra-violent ward.

>238 rgurskey: Laughed out loud!

At a vintage clothing store, I bought some cool shirts and stuff that they claimed had been owned by one of the guys in The Mamas and The Papas. They don't go together all that well, though: all the sleeves are brown, and the tie is gray.

>240 Jim53: Brilliant Jim! That's the best music joke here since the old Connie Frances hit Lipstick On Your Y-fronts.

Just now watching Ina Garten making a rice pudding with bourbon in it. You could say that the proof of the pudding is in the pudding.

Did you know that you're not supposed to laugh loudly in Hawaii?

They ask that you try to keep it to a low ha.

>243 foggidawn: Groan!

I know it's a long shot but... does anyone here know what a trebuchet is?

>195 Nick-Myra: The trick to a bad "good-joke" is that it must be half true.

This in the news today ....

German police are on a wild cat chase after a lioness was spotted roaming free in Berlin. No nearby animal organisations have reported the cat missing, so officials suspect it is an escaped pet. Residents have been warned to stay indoors as scores of officials try to track down the animal.

>245 ScoLgo: It's a medieval mechanical slingshot. It used a very heavy counterweight that pulled a short arm downwards and the long arm, with a cup shaped sling, upwards. This was used to hurl rocks or pots of burning oil over besieged castle walls (or dead cows, if Monty Python's "In search of the Holy Grail" is to be believed - the first case of biological warfare :-)

>247 Nick-Myra: So it shoots things for a long distance? ;0)

A bit hit and miss, that one.

>248 humouress: It also goes (*whoosh*)

;-D

>248 humouress: >249 ScoLgo: Right on the long distance, and the whoosh victory sound too

^o_o^

This sort of query Bard is in its element answering:


The furthest a trebuchet has launched something is 2,392 feet (729 meters). This record was set on August 8, 2006, by the team at the Wessex Trebuchet Society in Dorset, England. The projectile was a 92-pound (42-kilogram) pumpkin.

The trebuchet that was used to launch the pumpkin was a replica of a 13th-century siege engine. It was built using traditional materials, such as wood and rope, and it was powered by a counterweight.

The launch was filmed by the BBC and was featured on the television show "Bang Goes the Theory."

Trebuchets were used to launch a variety of projectiles, including rocks, arrows, and even dead animals. They were used to attack castles and other fortifications.

Some fun videos

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«a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ercaTxi0OkM"» chunking punkins «/a»

«a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMmmx8fkc2w"» hurling boiling oil «/a»

«a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1U1y0mwpYw"» hurling a car «/a»

I recall an episode of Northern Exposure where they built a trebuchet and launched an upright piano. Awesome!

They have been used at Pumpkin Chunking' in Delaware to hurl pumpkins.

16 sodium atoms enter a bar
followed by Batman

>252 rgurskey: yep, we have one in my town too, a big one.

my brother built a small one, and we spent an entire summer launching everything we could get our hands on. one experiment determined that frozen watermelons fly further than unfrozen ones - we assume the liquid inside must shift backwards and cause drag.

That's interesting.

How much further did the frozen watermelons go (percentagewise)?

I'd imagine the unfrozen melon's soft flesh would pulverise with the launch acceleration, then it sloshes around inside as it tumbles - taking kinetic energy out of the watermelon by heating it slightly inside.

Another large effect is the frozen melon would condense water on the surface which would have much lower drag than the fruit skin.

>254 Darth-Heather: China plates, or heavy dustbin lids would've been amazing to watch - to see if they flew at all like frisbees - could've been fun to create a flying saucer myth.

Would've been dangerous if they flew off course though.

>226 Darth-Heather:
You can't have fun on weak days but you can on the weakened.

Never did find out what the knights in white sat in.

Hahahahaah! I got that album for my 13th birthday and played till the grooves worn out. I remember at a youth group we were tasked to analyze the song. Didn't help me understand it, so just love listening to is. Have all of their CDS

>258 rgurskey: If they were the knights in "In Search of the Holy Grail", then in Whitey Knighties I'd say. 😭

>260 Nick-Myra: HAhaha!

Q: Why are chickens so funny?

A: Becauuuuuuuuse!

I thought the dryer made my clothes shrink.

Turns out it was the refrigerator.

>262 2wonderY: Sorry, someone will have to explain that one to me.

>263 weird_O: Ah, this explains a lot. 🤔 Maybe I should stop putting my clothes in there.

>264 humouress: .... below

>262 2wonderY: Sorry, someone will have to explain that one to me.

It's a meme thing:
https://www.tiktok.com/discover/why-the-chicken-so-funny-Becauuuuuuuuse

>263 weird_O: Ah, this explains a lot. 🤔 Maybe I should stop putting my clothes in there.

Yes, the silly entendre is also that most things expand when heated and contract when cooled.

Actually, I think it's because all the food is in the refrigerator. It's not that the clothes are shrinking, but the waistline is expanding. At least that is what I think the joke means.

thats what I thought too

Me too. I was being ironic. But it works both ways, really.

Were there any elephants in the fridge? Footprints in the butter; sound of conversation; door difficult to close; empty mini-car parked outside?

>202 2wonderY: Wondering where reply to a closed thread will go?

This referenced back from the subsequent thread here

https://www.librarything.com/topic/352580#8250148

>271 Nick-Myra: After a thread is continued, you can still post on it.

>248 humouress: Went over his head!

>272 MrsLee: Interesting, and I see it bumped it back to near top of the active thread list

>273 bernsad: Haha, that's the "whoosh" sound.

There's interesting interstellar trebuchets too

https://news.softpedia.com/news/black-holes-turned-slingshots-throw-stars-out-of...