Funny you say I was alluding to Gods. I was thinking about what would be a good name for a caveman. I looked at the list of characters in the comic strip B.C. One of them was "Thor".
--- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Thu, Jun 4, 2020, 11:52 AM Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Here's a dad joke that I've told at Friam a couple of times apologies > > to any reader who heard it from me: > > > > Thor was gathering wood for a fire when his wife ran out and screamed, > > "There's a saber toothed tiger in the cave with mother!". Thor says, > > "Who cares what happens to a saber toothed tiger?" > > > > Some have said that it's a misogynist joke. I think it's equally down > > putting of both genders. > Not to mention poorly characterizing Gods and prehistoric apex > predators. I recently read Neil Gaiman's retelling of many of the > Norse Myths in his own very unique voice and I was reminded of the > pleasure of godheads who had acutely human tragedies. > > Here's another way I'm apparently anachronistic. I didn't learn the > term "dad joke" until a few years ago, I'm guessing it had been around a > while by that time. It seems to simply replace the two tropes of the > "shaggy dog joke" and a "groaner" or simply a "bad" or "not so good" joke. > > And that parallel "dad shorts"? I think that references the generation > that wore their shorts (and pants) relatively tight and short. The > anachronistic (and British) term "short pants" seems to come closer to > what men wear for shorts now. Every once in a while I see a photo of a > basketball game before their shorts started dangling below the knee. > I've never played basketball (since 5th grade?) in anything but cutoffs > or jeans, so I'm not sure, but now *all* basketball shorts look > uncomfortable for one reason or the other. > > Nick - > > I *did* read your joke and had to struggle a little to fully appreciate > it. I suppose cat or GW lovers might find it "in bad taste". Perhaps > what might make it a "dad joke" is that it takes more than a little > thought to untangle the whole thing... and the punchline once fully > parsed was a minor letdown (aka "groaner"). Neither yours nor Frank's > resorted to the "bad pun" which I believe also fits the category of "dad > joke". What I presume (also) makes it a "dad joke" is the over-reach > of a dad trying to connect to a kid/grandkid or their friends with a > joke that might be either too simple or too sophisticated or perhaps > just plain dumb? > > - Steve > > > > -- --- .-. . .-.. --- -.-. -.- ... -..-. .- .-. . -..-. - .... . -..-. . > ... ... . -. - .. .- .-.. -..-. .-- --- .-. -.- . .-. ... > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC <http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/FRIAM-COMIC> > http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >
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