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Telling knock-knock jokes that he/she has made up and/or misinterpreted is a normal stage of child development. (At least, all the kids I know well have gone through it.)
It will gradually lead into telling groaner knock-knocks soon enough, without outside assistance. Do you really want to accelerate the process? Posts: 32919 | Registered: Mar 2003
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Oh man, I am so glad there is a child-friendly joke thread. Christopher is telling me nonfunny jokes right now and I have to pretend they are funny. I need to teach him these!
Example of Christopher's jokes from this morning:
Q: Why did the pickle go into the haunted house?
A: Because he went up the stairs and fell down the stairs and hit his head and he was scared and went to his mommy and she told him there's no such thing as ghosts and then they had lunch together and they had cheeseburgers with no pickle ...because that would be gross!... and they took a nap together because they love each other...hahahahahaha
I'm sure there is the germ of a joke in there that he heard somewhere. I can *almost* get this joke (also told this morning):
Q: Why do dogs have different colors?
A: Because they have pants! hahahahaha
I love my kid, but he needs to learn how to tell a joke. He can almost tell this one that I taught him:
Q: Why is six afraid of seven?
A: Because 7 8 9! (read it out loud)
He forgets which numbers go where. Hehe. Of course, he is only five. I have hope for him!
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I love kid jokes. So far, the "hippo clips his toenails" and "dogs with pants" jokes have been the best of the thread.
I used to teach at an after school program with kids in the first through third grades. One day I started telling "yo mama" jokes. One kid particularly thought they were just hysterical, but he couldn't quite understand the format. He'd always respond to my jokes with long rambling stories about how my mom went to K-mart and picked up hotdogs and ran over a dog or something, and they would build in intensity for several minutes until they would inevitably end with my mother EXPLODING!! I wish I'd had a tape recorder. They were hilarious.
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My youngest nephew went through a period where he would try to tell a joke and when it wasn't working, he'd just go off on this rambling tangent that would eventually work its way around to "sprinklers." And he would keep it up until we all laughed. I really enjoyed it -- comic punishment -- but his parents had had enough after a few months.
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This makes me think of those times when you're sitting around the dinner table, and suddenly someone says something only moderately funny, and the entire table is reduced to hysterical giggling, to the point that no one can breathe and you're all glad you didn't have food in your mouth, or if you did, it got spit out across the table.
My mom lives with us, and one night she was relating the not-very-interesting tale of preparing dinner. She started to say, "I started to open a can of--" and I couldn't help myself...I interupted her.
"Whoop-ass."
We all started laughing. It wasn't that funny, but it was unexpected. When we calmed down a little, Mom set us off again with her reply,
"Well, let's hope that's not in my arsenal."
I fell apart at the obviously unintended pun. She sat there, confused over why I was laughing so hard. Then she figured it out.
And the laughter didn't stop until dessert.
I love those times. Posts: 5948 | Registered: Jun 2001
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The interrupting starfish one is funny. We had cracks at xmas when I went to someone's house and one joke was Why is an elephant big and grey and rough. If it were small, white, and smooth it would be an asprin!
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I don't remember having been in that stage where I was telling jokes that weren't funny, but I do recall the first joke I made that I KNEW was funny.
Q: What kind of ice cream do cats like? A: Mice cream!
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We had one of those times last night in the car, jeniwren.
Emily was asking if I'd help her with her math, because they're doing money and she said it was hard. She said "I don't want to get bad grades."
So then Daniel pipes up "Bad grapes? What are bad grapes?"
The girls laughed and I said "The bad grapes are the ones that get dried out and made into raisins. Otherwise known as the Grapes of Wrath."
The older girls dissolve into giggles. But Abigail starts crying. I asked her what was wrong and she said "Why is Emily going to turn into a raisin for bad grades?"
So we explained the misunderstanding to her. Then she said, accusingly "You scared me Mama." I said I was sorry, I didn't mean to scare her, I was just trying to be funny. Then she says "Well, it wasn't even funny either."
That got the whole car laughing and it didn't stop until we got home.
And she's right - none of it was actually all that funny. Posts: 14428 | Registered: Aug 2001
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The "Ether Bunny" and "Cargo" jokes got full marks from the lad today. Although, (and this is both sweet AND frightening in its' utter PC'ness), he re-worked the "cargo" to where the ether bunnies wave bye-bye rather than get run over.
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