Kids With Puns
I was trying to explain to my neices (8 and 5) how jokes work (because "why did the teapot need a wee... because it had tea in it!" isn't funny).

So I explained about puns and punchlines and illustrated my explanation with the pun based classic:

Why did the baker have brown hands?
Because he kneaded a poo!

Needless to say they found it funny (might have been solely because of the word poo being used). And all was good...

...until the last comic releif.

The kids had a school assembly and each child (in front of teachers, classmates and parents) has to get up and tell a joke. So one of my neices gets up and tells the baker/poo joke.

Apparently it's not acceptable for 8 year olds to use the word poo in a school assembly.

I'm not allowed to tell my neices jokes any more, even though it could have been so much worse...

I was walking in a cemetery this morning and seen a bloke hiding behind a gravestone. I said "Morning."
He replied, "No, just having a shit."
(ralphseviltwin, Thu 5 Mar 2009, 16:54, 2 replies)

I like it
But I beg to differ...your nieces' joke made me laugh at any rate.

Love the gravestone joke.
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 5 Mar 2009, 16:59, closed)

Setting up
your nieces to do poo jokes in school assembly has to be worth a click. Nice work.
(zebby wasting irony here on, Thu 5 Mar 2009, 17:03, closed)