# More Jokes

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-jokes/848629>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Tags:** comedian-jokes\
**Created:** [February 27, 2020, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-jokes/848629 "2020-02-27T23:57:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-jokes/848629/8292 "2026-09-29T19:15:46Z")

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How do you count cows? 🐄

With a cow-culator.

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**Author:** ![Mark\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-jokes/848629/8293 "2026-09-29T22:43:50Z")

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I spotted an albino Dalmatian. I figured I had to do something.

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**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-jokes/848629/8294 "2026-09-29T23:02:37Z")

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If “fat chance” and “slim chance” mean the same thing, what is the ideal BMI of fate?

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2026, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-jokes/848629/8295 "2026-09-30T02:15:16Z")

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> [@purplehorseshoe](#):
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> How do you count cows? 🐄
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> With a cow-culator.

**What do chickens use to do math?**

Cackle-ators.

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**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-jokes/848629/8296 "2026-10-01T07:54:13Z")

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> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> **What do chickens use to do math?**
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> Cackle-ators.

Mathemachicken.

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**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:** [October 1, 2026, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-jokes/848629/8297 "2026-10-01T14:51:32Z")

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Here’s one I came up with on the spur of the moment when my wife and I were at an arts and crafts fair this past weekend. She had stopped at a booth selling fancy candles…

Me: What do you call a candle that won’t light?

Wife: (answering reluctantly, knowing a bad pun was coming) What?

Me: A can’tle

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**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-jokes/848629/8298 "2026-10-01T14:54:08Z")

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Bravo! That’s funnier than quite a few jokes in this thread (IMHO, of course).

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**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:** [October 1, 2026, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-jokes/848629/8299 "2026-10-01T14:55:05Z")

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Why, thank you! 😊

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**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-jokes/848629/8300 "2026-10-01T21:57:22Z")

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A local columnist asked for a term for those fake security cameras. I came up with Candidn’t Camera.

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**Author:** ![fedman1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2026, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-jokes/848629/8301 "2026-10-02T02:34:13Z")

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and briefer than some too

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**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2026, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-jokes/848629/8302 "2026-10-02T10:39:39Z")

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> [@JKellyMap](#):
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> Bravo! That’s funnier than quite a few jokes in this thread (IMHO, of course).

I didn’t mean to sound like a sourpuss about this thread overall. It’s been one of my favorite threads, for years.

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**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2026, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-jokes/848629/8303 "2026-10-02T11:37:16Z")

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Agreed. Thanks again to @Prof.Pepperwinkle for his labors.

mmm

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**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2026, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-jokes/848629/8304 "2026-10-02T13:29:41Z")

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This one brought up memories of a very old Luann comic strip panel that I had cut out and put on my wall in college.

IIRC, which I’m sure I don’t, Luann says “then he said that I’m letting my can’t side get bigger than my can” and her brother retorts “he’s not looking at you from the right angle”

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**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2026, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-jokes/848629/8305 "2026-10-02T14:09:46Z")

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Brevity is the soul of wit.  
And lingerie.

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**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2026, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-jokes/848629/8306 "2026-10-02T14:37:18Z")

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> [@Cheesesteak](#):
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> he said that I’m letting my can’t side get bigger than my can”

Google says that letting one’s can’t side get bigger than one’s can is a Southern (U.S., I guess) idiom.

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**Author:** ![fedman1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2026, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-jokes/848629/8307 "2026-10-02T14:53:06Z")

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so true, jokes that take 2 pages to unspool is too long for me

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**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2026, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-jokes/848629/8308 "2026-10-02T17:49:56Z")

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Hmm, you know what I just realized?

I’ve never had an epiphany.

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2026, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-jokes/848629/8309 "2026-10-02T18:51:54Z")

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### When I heard about Russell’s Paradox…

…I couldn’t contain myself!

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### In the movie ‘The Hunt for Red October’ …

the entire story is the sub-plot.

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### Everyone argues over writing dates 2 October or October 2, either way…

10/2 your own darn business.

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### I’d like to thank all the girls on Tinder for helping to make my October extra spooky…

All that ghosting really got me in the Halloween spirit.

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### How does the spoiled little rich girl change her lightbulb?

“Daddy, I need a new apartment.”

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-jokes/848629/8310 "2026-10-03T02:22:49Z")

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> [@pjd](#):
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> And lingerie.

‘Lingerie. Remember lingerie?’

> [@fedman1](#):
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> so true, jokes that take 2 pages to unspool is too long for me

‘Nope. Too shaggy.’

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**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-jokes/848629/8311 "2026-10-03T02:39:05Z")

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