Today's featured daily humor:
I understand now what makes dads tell dad jokes So, I had visited my nephew's house, and I was reading his picture book to him. While reading the picture book to him, I thought of and cracked the lamest pun ever. There was a character in the book called Dorothy, and I added that she was called Dorothy because she only ate "do roti" (do - 2, roti - type of bread). I was not expecting any laughs, but much to my surprise, he was hysterical, and he literally couldn't stop laughing. He even dragged his mom to me and asked her to ask me what Dorothy eats. We had to tell him to stop laughing, and after a small pause, he would burst into laughter again. And that's when I realized that I might have told him his very first pun ever. This made me think of the "dad jokes" culture, and I'm starting to understand why it is a thing. My theory is that all dad jokes started with a single bad joke that some dad told his toddler for the first time, and then they were so enamored with the response that it turned into a lifelong habit chasing that high of the first joke.