Comments on: Dad Punners’ Society

By: pete

pete — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:17:44 +0000

Kelliemariee, I hear the cartoon trumpet playing “wuh wuh”! You have my sympathy.

By: kelliemaree

kelliemaree — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:35:24 +0000

When rubbing your eye
Dad: What’s up?”
Me: “There’s something in my eye”
Dad: “Yeah, it’s your finger”

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 04:32:32 +0000

They’re definitely Dad Sayings if not Dad Jokes. If it’s funny the first time, annoying by the 23rd, then it qualifies.

By: Karen Wallace

Karen Wallace — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 04:09:00 +0000

You know what’s saddest? My father didn’t use these puns, but my husband does! That dead centre of town one is common… and then there are all the “As useful as…” ones like – “a hip pocket in a singlet”, “t*ts on a bull”, “a ham sandwich in a synagogue”… etc etc. Most of them aren’t even politically correct these days… Not sure if these are really puns, but they do get that eyeroll thing happening big time with our teens!

By: themolk

themolk — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 21:47:18 +0000

I am ashamed to admit this, but I know this is a safe place to do so… I only just got the “Toilet Trees” gag…

By: themolk

themolk — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:57:48 +0000

Totally with you, Pete. They are shockers…

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:23:23 +0000

And Molk, on the sub-editors: one of the things that annoys me (there are so many) about journalists, particularly talking heads, is not so much the puns as it is the way they deliver the pun-laden headline (usually not clever) and then look smug about it.

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:19:43 +0000

This is gold, people. Keep em coming.

By: Mad Cow

Mad Cow — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 03:49:55 +0000

hehehe

I just remembered another that my dad persistently comes out with – even though we now tell him to shut up becuase he’s not funny.

Although, technically, i don’t think its a pun …

My neice decided she wanted to be vegetarian, and he caught her eating teddy bear biscuits, so he says “I thought you were a vegetarian”

“I am”

“Well, you can’t eat teddy bear biscuits then. They’re animals”

(Yes, hilarious, I know *roll eyes*)

By: themolk

themolk — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:24:25 +0000

For mine, all the best (worst?) puns end up being delivered by sub-editors. They’ve only a few words to grab your attention, and the pun always wins. It’s sad that you can professionally be a “bad dad punner”…

I can’t think of any that I Dad regaled me with, but I know there were many… maybe I’ve just had to shut them out, or bury them deep, deep down until one day I explode in a fury of bad puns…

…stand back…