Dad Jokes

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This is a community for sharing those cheesy “dad” jokes that invoke an eye roll or chuckle.

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Clean jokes only please. If you cannot tell this joke to a 5-year-old and they can understand, you probably shouldn’t post it here. Please post edgier jokes to: !unclejokes@lemmy.world
Adult topics with which to be cautious or avoided: drugs, sex, death, racism.
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An Englishman, a Frenchman, a Spaniard, and a German (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/dadjokes@lemmy.world

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[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 week ago

I've heard that it named itself, and the oui+ja interpretation is a false etymology. This is also what's written on Wikipedia at the time of posting this comment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouija#Etymology