# Dumb, obvious jokes some people can't help but reflexively make **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 21, 2023, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-obvious-jokes-some-people-cant-help-but-reflexively-make/994928 "2023-12-21T12:09:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![MarkF2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5ac83/32.png) [@MarkF2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarkF2004)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2024, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-obvious-jokes-some-people-cant-help-but-reflexively-make/994928/221 "2024-01-16T00:04:44Z")
[More Tea Vicar?](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/239208/when-did-more-tea-vicar-start-to-be-used-after-farting-where-did-it-come-fro) British middle class manners pretending something distasteful doesn’t exist / hasn’t happened. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2024, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-obvious-jokes-some-people-cant-help-but-reflexively-make/994928/222 "2024-01-16T14:13:36Z")
> [@John\_Bredin](#): > > My wife and I were grocery shopping the other day and an item wouldn’t scan. She made the “it must be free” joke and the cashier seemed honestly surprised. I mentioned upthread I made a joke that I thought was very old and obvious when I smashed my finger and ended up in the ER. I asked the doctor “will I be able to play guitar when it heals?” He said “Absolutely”. I said “great, I wasn’t able to before!” (It’s a joke that goes back to Vaudeville days). I thought I’d get a groan, but I got a genuine laugh. It probably helped that the ER doc was pretty young. Every old joke is new again, eventually! ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2024, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-obvious-jokes-some-people-cant-help-but-reflexively-make/994928/223 "2024-01-16T14:30:23Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Every old joke is new again, eventually! The defense of dads everywhere who make their five-year-olds giggle with the hackiest, hoariest shit. Myself included. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2024, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-obvious-jokes-some-people-cant-help-but-reflexively-make/994928/224 "2024-01-16T14:46:34Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > The defense of dads everywhere who make their five-year-olds giggle with the hackiest, hoariest shit. Myself included. 😃 They say that kids are easy audiences for not only dumb, obvious jokes, but also for playing music to. Since they don’t know any better, they’ll think you’re a great musician even if you’re a rank amateur, as I am. But I used to sing and play guitar to my older son when he was no more than 5 or 6. Songs like 'Yellow Submarine". He said “You’re not very good, dad”. 😯 ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2024, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-obvious-jokes-some-people-cant-help-but-reflexively-make/994928/225 "2024-01-16T15:18:51Z")
When I’m walking Huck, my Great Dane, I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard - Where did you get the pony? or Is he part horse?, Can you ride him?, etc. 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2024, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-obvious-jokes-some-people-cant-help-but-reflexively-make/994928/226 "2024-01-16T18:34:13Z")
When looking at the ocean or sea, I’ve asked someone, “is it saltwater?”. After they answer and I explain I was just fucken with them, I’ve been told people as it seriously. Arther a few LARGE draft beers, if I want just a bit more, I’ll ask for a child’s size. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2024, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-obvious-jokes-some-people-cant-help-but-reflexively-make/994928/227 "2024-01-16T18:45:05Z")
> [@TRC4941](#): > > When I’m walking Huck, my Great Dane, I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard - Where did you get the pony? or Is he part horse?, Can you ride him?, etc. 🙄 Did he come with a saddle? We never have had a Great Dane. We have had a Great Pyrenees. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2024, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-obvious-jokes-some-people-cant-help-but-reflexively-make/994928/228 "2024-01-16T19:16:12Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > When looking at the ocean or sea, I’ve asked someone, “is it saltwater?”. After they answer and I explain I was just fucken with them, I’ve been told people as it seriously. Years ago I bought a used motorboat from a father and grown son who, as a side hustle, bought used boats, fixed them up and resold them. As I was a rank novice when it came to boating, the father generously helped walk me through some boating basics: how to tie a bowline hitch, tips for backing up the boat to launch, etc. Then he went through the boat control basics: forward throttle, reverse, how to raise and lower the outboard motor, lights, etc. I jokingly asked “where’s the brake?” and his jaw literally dropped open. He clearly was thinking “wow, this landlubber is even stupider than I thought”. I quickly said “Just kidding!” ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2024, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-obvious-jokes-some-people-cant-help-but-reflexively-make/994928/229 "2024-01-16T19:43:44Z")
> [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#): > > Did he come with a saddle? Yep! I’ve heard that one too. ---
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2024, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-obvious-jokes-some-people-cant-help-but-reflexively-make/994928/230 "2024-01-16T20:54:55Z")
A stupid, obvious joke I feel compelled to repeat whenever the context arises: if and when anyone asks me (as they inevitably do) “What’s up?”, I point at the ceiling or sky, and solemnly reply “That”. Of course, I’m also the sort of wiseass who, when someone says “Give me a hand with this”, claps his own hands a few times. What? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2024, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-obvious-jokes-some-people-cant-help-but-reflexively-make/994928/231 "2024-01-16T22:11:01Z")
We hung out today with our Sint Maarten friend Juggie, proprietor of Juggie’s Place, the smallest bar in the world. Luckily someone who stopped for a drink asked, as many do, why they call him Juggie. Ha answered, as always, with a serious expression, “My name is Jagdish Kumar Amarnaney, what the fuck should they call me”. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2024, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-obvious-jokes-some-people-cant-help-but-reflexively-make/994928/232 "2024-01-17T05:17:00Z")
“Do you have reservations?” “Yes, but we decided to come anyways.” I can’t ever resist. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2024, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-obvious-jokes-some-people-cant-help-but-reflexively-make/994928/233 "2024-01-17T05:56:42Z")
There’s also "Has anyone ever told you that you look like…? I stopped doing that many years ago though. There was a maintence guy in a university setting I met when he came in to work on an oven. I swear, he looked so much like a young Paul McCartney I couldhn’t help myself. I started "Has anyone ever told you? and before I could name he said, in a rather sharp tone, “Yes.” Oh, and I’m from Kansas. While I was in the military, and would be asked where I was from, I got so sick and tired of Oz jokes. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2024, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-obvious-jokes-some-people-cant-help-but-reflexively-make/994928/234 "2024-01-17T13:03:10Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > “Do you have reservations?” > “Yes, but we decided to come anyways.” > I can’t ever resist. Finally, a tired joke I’ve never heard. Thank you! I shall add it to my repertoire. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2024, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-obvious-jokes-some-people-cant-help-but-reflexively-make/994928/235 "2024-01-17T13:08:05Z")
We have a butterfly garden (a bunch of stuff planted to attract and benefit butterflies). It really works well. When the backyard is filled with butterflies and a visitor comments, “oh my, look at all the butterflies”, I’m unable to resist sighing and replying, “yes, I need to spray”. I make the same comment for, “look at all the squirrels” or anything similar. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2024, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-obvious-jokes-some-people-cant-help-but-reflexively-make/994928/236 "2024-01-17T14:57:13Z")
How Addams of you. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2024, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-obvious-jokes-some-people-cant-help-but-reflexively-make/994928/237 "2024-01-17T17:34:33Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > When the backyard is filled with butterflies and a visitor comments, “oh my, look at all the butterflies”, I’m unable to resist sighing and replying, “yes, I need to spray”. Possibly non-obvious joke: Young child to her grandmother: ‘Look at all the pretty white butterflies! My teacher said that butterflies are all precious and must be protected!’ Grandmother, sighing: ‘[Your teacher buys her cabbage at the store](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieris_rapae).’ (I do keep a lot of habitat, including milkweed, that’s useful to other butterfly species.) ---
**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2024, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-obvious-jokes-some-people-cant-help-but-reflexively-make/994928/238 "2024-01-17T17:38:16Z")
I can only go by me. “Cold enough for you?” ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2024, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-obvious-jokes-some-people-cant-help-but-reflexively-make/994928/239 "2024-01-17T17:39:10Z")
“Did you sleep well?” “No, I made a few mistakes.” ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2024, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-obvious-jokes-some-people-cant-help-but-reflexively-make/994928/240 "2024-01-17T18:49:16Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > “Did you sleep well?” Slept like a baby. Woke up every 2 hours and wet myself. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-obvious-jokes-some-people-cant-help-but-reflexively-make/994928.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-obvious-jokes-some-people-cant-help-but-reflexively-make/994928.md?page=13)