[Ads-l] dad joke

[Jonathan Lighter]

Now there are also "dad movies":

https://bookandfilmglobe.com/film/movie-review-guy-ritchie-the-covenant/

"Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant’, directed by, believe it or not, Guy Ritchie,
is as red-meat a dad movie as you’ll find in theaters this year. It’s a war
story, full of male bonding, with themes of honor, commitment, duty, and
plenty of violence, though you don’t see a ton of blood so the action
scenes feel somewhat like video games."

JL

On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 3:16 AM James Eric Lawson <jel at nventure.com> wrote:

> At least as early as 1961 in The Vancouver Sun (Vancouver, British
> Columbia, Canada) 02 Nov, p 1 col 1, bottom. It might be a typo, but if
> memory serves newspapers employed real copy editors at the time:
>
> Dad Joke: Our Regular $1.85 Quality -- Now only $1.19!
> Mrs. A.: "And what did your husband give you for your birthday,
>   Mrs. B.?"
> Mrs. B.: "He said it was something he'd always wanted to get for me -- a
>   briar pipe and a pound of tobacco."
>
>
> https://www.newspapers.com/image/492533761/?terms=%22a%20dad%20joke%22&match=1
>
> Not my idea of the contemporary 'dad joke', but maybe a "dad's 'dad
> joke'"? Fact checking has always been rather spotty in the popular press.
>
>
> On 2/6/21 11:27 PM, Neal Whitman wrote:
> > I did a piece for Grammar Girl on this in 2017. The OED’s earliest
> citation is from 1987:
> https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/what-is-a-dad-joke
> >
> > Neal
> >
> >> On Feb 6, 2021, at 7:55 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Wikipedia: "A dad joke is a short joke, typically a pun, presented as a
> >> one-liner or a question and answer, but not a narrative. Generally
> >> inoffensive, dad jokes are stereotypically told by fathers among family,
> >> either with sincere humorous intent, or to intentionally provoke a
> negative
> >> reaction to its overly-simplistic humor."
> >>
> >> I've been hearing this a lot for the last year or so: "Is that a dad
> joke?"
> >> The question implies, "That's pretty dumb joke. Why did you tell it?"
> >>
> >> Essentially, "a simple quip or joke that is not very clever or funny,
> of a
> >> sort that might be told by one's father."
> >>
> >> JL
> >>
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