Oh, yeah. That’s true. I remember being mystified by that one as a child.
Teaching jokes to children is a strange business because they seem to go through a phase where they enthusiastically tell jokes that aren’t funny, as if they don’t appreciate humor. It hardly matters what kind of joke you tell them.
Just anti-humour.
when I was in second grade the standard anti-humor joke was,
“Why did the chicken cross the road?”
“To get to the other side.”
That was one of the first “jokes” I ever heard, and I think I was nineteen when I finally realized it was supposed to be anti-humor.
Oh, yeah. That’s true. I remember being mystified by that one as a child.
Teaching jokes to children is a strange business because they seem to go through a phase where they enthusiastically tell jokes that aren’t funny, as if they don’t appreciate humor. It hardly matters what kind of joke you tell them.