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'Tell me a joke'

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Woopzies · 16/03/2024 20:44

Had a work meeting yesterday. Whole team present including boss.

Boss, in a funny mood, goes 'tell me a joke.' One by one, everyone told their joke. We got to me and I went totally blank, followed by histerics because I don't know any jokes.

I hadn't realised until then that I actually don't know any jokes. The logical side of me says that it really isn't a big deal but the other side of me feels like there's something wrong with me for not knowing any jokes. AIBU?!

OP posts:
Pudmyboy · 17/03/2024 01:26

MummBRaaarrrTheEverLeaking · 17/03/2024 00:17

Some more pirate ones...

What's a pirate's favourite band?
Arrrr-Harrrrr!

Favourite film?
Arrrrrrmageddon

A much longer joke that springs to mind is the coffin one. You can really embelish this one but it goes thus:

One night, a man walks home alone from the pub. He's had a few pints so a little sozzled but merry. The street is deserted. He hears a weird noise but doesn't bother looking. But the noise gets louder, so he turns around.

To his horror, he sees a coffin, upright and scraping along the road towards him. Now, he thinks maybe he's had one too many so rubs his eyes, thinking he's imagining things. But when he opens them again, the coffin is still there. Scrape....scrape.....

He walks quicker now, still thinking this is all a bad effect of the booze but as he quickens, so does the coffin. Scrape, scrape, scrape.

The man breaks out into a run now, his house nearby. He bursts through the door, locks it behind him. Safe at last he catches his breath.

CRASH. The coffin has burst through the front door. The man legs it upstairs, to the bathroom which has a lock.

Bang, bang, bang. The coffin is going upstairs also and crashes through the bathroom door with ease. It slows now, opening and closing its rotting lid as it approaches the terrified man.

The man grabs a bar of soap and throws it at the coffin to no avail. He grabs a towel and throws it again. Nothing.

Just as the coffin is upon him, in the last second, the man grabs a bottle of benylin and throws it at the coffin.

The coffin stops.

The coffin one scared me a bit!

JanglingJack · 17/03/2024 01:22

Painting the ceiling earlier, needed help from my step ladder.

I don't get on with my real ladder.

JanglingJack · 17/03/2024 01:20

GinToBegin · 17/03/2024 00:01

My wife went to Indonesia
Jakarta?
No, she went of her own accord.

Jakarta

No she got the bus

JanglingJack · 17/03/2024 01:19

GinToBegin · 17/03/2024 00:01

My wife went to Indonesia
Jakarta?
No, she went of her own accord.

Genoa?

Never seen her before in my life

MaybeRevisitYourWipingT3chnique · 17/03/2024 01:12

My dog barks with a distinctive Barcelona accent. He's a spaniel.

Two women are out on safari, when a prowling jaguar approaches them from nowhere. Quick as a flash, one of them grabs her trainers from her rucksack and frantically starts putting them on.
The other says "What's the point? You'll never be able to out-run a hungry jaguar."
She replies, "True - but I only have to outrun you!"

TheMessiahIsMySister · 17/03/2024 01:10

Lookatyounowlookatme · 17/03/2024 01:08

I don’t get the coffin & Benylin one 🙈

The coughin’ stops.

Lookatyounowlookatme · 17/03/2024 01:08

I don’t get the coffin & Benylin one 🙈

MaybeRevisitYourWipingT3chnique · 17/03/2024 01:07

A white horse walks into a bar and the barmaid says "Well, what a coincidence - we have a whisky named after you!"

The horse replies, "What? You sell a whisky called Percy?!"

Drivinginmycar · 17/03/2024 01:03

GinToBegin · 17/03/2024 00:01

My wife went to Indonesia
Jakarta?
No, she went of her own accord.

Overheard on a bus. Two 'cockney' men.

' Been on holiday then'

'Yes, Italy. Genoa'

'No, I don't. '

MaybeRevisitYourWipingT3chnique · 17/03/2024 01:02

I work in a factory manufacturing toy Draculas, but we have huge targets, even though there's only me and one other employee there.
I have to make every second count.

I work in a furniture factory and one of my colleagues turned up for the night shift straight from the pub, absolutely hammered, and he stumbled and fell into the automatic upholstering machine.
He's recovered now.

I work in a creosote factory and one of my colleagues accidentally fell into an enormous vat and drowned.
We were very sad to lose him, but we all went to his funeral and he had a lovely finish.

Elfer13 · 17/03/2024 01:02

A 70 year old man walking by a river finds a talking frog, gently picking it up the frog explains that it is in fact a beautiful princess turned into a frog by a wicked witch and a kiss will turn her back into a beautiful princess to spend the rest of her life with the man who saved her.
The man puts the frog in his pocket and says "at my age I'd rather have a talking frog".

Mothership4two · 17/03/2024 00:59

How do you make a cat go woof?

Pour petrol over it and light a match

I'm very very ashamed

Cat lover here btw

RobertaFirmino · 17/03/2024 00:58

Depeche Mode go out for dinner one night. The waiter comes to the table and asks what they would like on the cheeseboard. Dave wants Brie and Camembert but nobody else likes them so he has a separate board to himself. The waiter brings it to the table and says 'Sir, your own personal cheeses'.

MaybeRevisitYourWipingT3chnique · 17/03/2024 00:56

Another one of DS's along with the "hangs out grandad's trousers". Another one had the punchline "shark infested custard" but I don't remember the actual joke itself.

Isn't it just something like 'What's yellow and dangerous?' ?!

honeylulu · 17/03/2024 00:53

Patient: Doctor doctor I keep thinking I'm a pancake.
Doctor: Oh how waffle.

Mothership4two · 17/03/2024 00:53

My first joke ever:

What hangs around the bottom of the sea and terrorizes all the other fish?

Jack the kipper

Circa 1972 probably. I think I read it in a Beano annual. It's an odd one for kids as I would have had no idea who or what Jack the Ripper was, but it did get a laugh.

Deadringer · 17/03/2024 00:52

pocketaces · 16/03/2024 22:32

Man walks into his bedroom with a sheep under his arm and says "this is the pig I sleep with when you have a headache"

His wife looks up and says "I think you'll find that's a sheep"

The man says "I think you'll find I was talking to the sheep"

😂

honeylulu · 17/03/2024 00:52

I mistook a killer whale for a shark the other day. Well, that was orca-ward.

honeylulu · 17/03/2024 00:50

I am not in the mood for telling jokes. I lost a dear friend today. It was acid reflux. I'm so sad that Gav is gone.

MaybeRevisitYourWipingT3chnique · 17/03/2024 00:50

A young man is at the beach, strutting around like a peacock in the hope of attracting some female attention, but he's completely ignored.

He asks his older mate if he has any ideas and he tells him to pop to the nearby Spar, buy the biggest baking potato they have and then stick it into his trunks.

He does this and sees lots of women coming over and looking at him, but they all start screaming loudly and run away - not what he'd been hoping for at all.

His mate spots him and calls over "Hey, Jack - put the potato down the FRONT of your trunks!"

Mothership4two · 17/03/2024 00:49

What do you find on the ground that is brown and sticky?

A stick.

Another one of DS's along with the "hangs out grandad's trousers". Another one had the punchline "shark infested custard" but I don't remember the actual joke itself.

YouDidntEvenAskIfSheWasThereMoriarty · 17/03/2024 00:48

Three boys are out for a walk. They're called Shit, Piss Off, and Manners.

Shit gets hit by a car so Piss Off runs into a police station to get some help.

  • Help my friend's been run over
  • Ok, what's your name?
  • Piss Off
  • What did you say?
  • I said, Piss Off
  • Excuse me, where are your manners?
  • Outside, picking up Shit
Mothership4two · 17/03/2024 00:43

We went to the zoo today but it only had one animal...

What was it?

It was a Shih Tzu

That was my son's favourite joke when he was around 9/10 - probably because it had a 'naughty' word in it that he was allowed to say out loud - and I have heard it about 5 billion times now.

I'm with you OP, I generally can't remember jokes, I just don't retain them even though I do enjoy a good one.

It did make me smile seeing the very old 'nun soap' joke being explained on here

HouseOfMonk · 17/03/2024 00:42

Why did the Mexican push his wife off a cliff?

  • tequila!
MaybeRevisitYourWipingT3chnique · 17/03/2024 00:42

What's pink and wrinkly and hangs out your grandad's pants?
Your grandma.

What's red and invisible?
No tomatoes.

What's green and brown and has six legs but can't climb trees?
A snooker table.