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Maybe it's just me but Dad's tell some pretty bad joke on a regular basis. I've been wondering why this is, because I think a lot of them had to been funny at one point in their lives maybe it has something to do with having kids means you can only tell them the most simple jokes and have to

keep it clean as well. Thoughts?

Inspired by this. http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-lame-jokes-you-start-telling-as-soon-as-you-become-dad/

My dad used to tell awesome jokes. His real trick wasn't just telling good jokes, but knowing when to tell them and when to retire them.

Marriage and children drain your soul. No soul, no humor.

The last line of that article rings very true for me.

If I didn't get to respond to the whiny line "Daaaaadd, what's for dinner?" with "cat food" or something equally stupid, I'd go all Overlook Hotel on this house.

Cheescat, just wait till you get older and start doing dad jokes yourself , it's worse when your sister turns to you and says "that's a dad joke- an our dad joke" I still don't think I've recovered psychologically from that moment

I'm not even a father yet, who knows what depths of humour I'll get to then, I pity the poor unborn fool.

I can't say I ever found my dad telling terrible jokes but then half his job for years was networking people (young and old) and its not that hard to get me to laugh.

As a Dad I can certify that all my jokes are absolutely hilarious. I don't know what you people are talking about. My kids say I'm a walking joke all the time....er wait HEY!

 Frazzled wrote:
As a Dad I can certify that all my jokes are absolutely hilarious. I don't know what you people are talking about. My kids say I'm a walking joke all the time....er wait HEY!

OK, that made me smile.

My dad was never a jokes type of person, he has fun but never just straight out jokes.
My mate Dave's dad on the other hand had a 20 minute repertoire of fish themed jokes that were hard not to smile at first time round,
that routine got old quickly as youngsters but then became slightly funnier by the age that we could all drink together.

The trick is to never let on that your telling a dad joke until the punch line, you make it sound like a story, like this morning, I was standing behind a little old lady at the ATM and she was having a little trouble, I asked her if she was okay and she said, I'm having trouble checking my balance, can you help me, so,I pushed her over...

 Jihadnik wrote:
The trick is to never let on that your telling a dad joke until the punch line, you make it sound like a story, like this morning, I was standing behind a little old lady at the ATM and she was having a little trouble, I asked her if she was okay and she said, I'm having trouble checking my balance, can you help me, so,I pushed her over...

Have an exalt good sir!

 Jihadnik wrote:
The trick is to never let on that your telling a dad joke until the punch line, you make it sound like a story, like this morning, I was standing behind a little old lady at the ATM and she was having a little trouble, I asked her if she was okay and she said, I'm having trouble checking my balance, can you help me, so,I pushed her over...

Quoted for truth.....

I tell Dad jokes all the time, and I love it!

 Frazzled wrote:
As a Dad I can certify that all my jokes are absolutely hilarious. I don't know what you people are talking about. My kids say I'm a walking joke all the time....er wait HEY!

Frazz, Are your jokes about your Walking weiner?

My parents were at a Christening and the vicar was running late, so as people waited my dad went up to the lectern and apparently opened the Bible to a random page. As everyone went quiet and he said "And so it was that Moses went to Mount Olive, so Popeye hit him."

Apparently everyone burst out laughing.

Dads are freed from the requirement to tell funny jokes, and thus can tell blindingly stupid and obvious jokes- the jokes so obvious that you never see them coming. A good dad joke is like a rake in an unmowed yard- you don't see it until you step on it and get whacked in the face.

Mine revolve around utterly deplorable puns. My wife had been dying eggs and managed to make one that was almost plaid.
I asked, "What hatches out of a plaid egg?"
She rolled her eyes, groaned, and answered-
a plaidapus.

My sons and I erupted in laughter.

They wait until they become grandfathers to tell funny jokes. My grandfather is probably the funniest person I've ever met. My dad isn't very funny. I mean, we can share a few chuckles telling stories about work and the Marine Corps, but he's not really a joking kind of guy.

I've been telling the #1 types for years; they're hilarious.