Boot and Reboot are sitting in a boat.
Boot falls out.
What do you do?
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Reboot


A friend of mine tells this all the time and cracks himself up each time. He won't explain why it's funny. Please tell me what I'm missing...

 

If your friend is six years old, that's why it's funny.

 

You're missing his horrible sense of humor.

I get it. It's just not funny.

 

Mentally, yes. Physically, no.

 

If that's funny, then the Queen of England shops at KMart. (At least she did until this week.)

 

A very wanky joke.

 

Hmm... I guess I'd fall into the pattern of repeating the whole joke over and over until the audience stopped me. (That is, I'd "reboot" the joke.)

Reminds me of what we used to call "Julie's program" to disparage a co-worker years ago (the line numbers are in the form of an old BASIC program):

10 BE STUPID
20 GOTO 10



Tim

P.S. I prefer the humor of my kids. My 13 year-old asked the other day what you call the broken brake parts that held the pads. Before I could answer, my 11 year-old figured it out and responded, "ex-calipers!" I nearly ran off the road.

 

How about this one:

aixelsyd

(About the same level of humor)

 

I always heard that was from DAM (Mothers Against Dyslexia).

Tim

 

Want an example of a kid's humor? I didn't find it funny at the time since I was, after all, a kid, but it sure charmed the adults around me at the time -- in 6th grade they taught us that a mushroom, when it's first growing, is called a "button." Well when quiz time came, I clean forgot this, and instead tried my best to guess. I put down "mushlet". Seems the teacher was impressed by the cuteness of it and wrote gushy comments all over the test etc. My mom saw this, told my uncle over the phone. My uncle is very creative. He created a sculpted humanoid mother mushroom breast-feeding a "mushlet, and put it in a jar to last forever.

Kids, they say the darndest things, and the adults have the darndest reactions!