Dad Jokes.

I’m more than certain that each and every one of you have heard a dad joke, or two, in your life and if you have never heard one, let me give you a brief definition.

A dad joke: a joke that is more commonly said by dads and is so lame that you have to laugh. This type of joke has more recently been picked up by mums, and sometimes teenagers, in the effort to make someone laugh. Generally, they’re the only ones laughing.

So this is an acknowledgement of every dad out there on Father’s day who can’t help but riddle their lingo with dad jokes. You make us all proud in keeping up the tradition of the dad joke and we love you for it.

My dad? Oh he’s full of dad jokes! He brings something different to the plate though. You see, he thinks he’s cool. No really, he thinks he’s awesome. He has four daughters and i guess we’ve kind of influenced him too much with chick flicks, nail polish and hair styles. In all fairness though, he loves all three.. deep down, he loves them.

We’ve had a good go of being boys for him though. Tomboys. You see, we all grew up water skiing. He was a pro water skier and owned boat after boat. I even got my boat license (before it went to the law where you have to do a 2 days course and pay $500). Dad then moved onto drag racing as there were crocodiles in the river that we’d been skiing in for years and he felt that it wasn’t safe enough for us. To the drag races! We love them! He’s fixing up a Monaro at the moment with a 408 Chev motor, which has 630 horsepower. Impressed? Yeah.. It’s a black Monaro. 

So you see, i think we’ve been pretty good daughters AND sons to him. We keep him on his toes, that’s for sure. But the last few years he’s given in and goes around saying things like, “Sup, GF?!” which means, “What’s up, girlfriend?!”. He also says things like, “Evers!” with a wootang sign on his hands. This means, “Whatever”. We can always tell when dad’s pretending to be mum either on Skype (when i was in London or Brooke was in Italy) or via text message on mum’s phone. Generally the messages come out like this (even when he’s trying really hard to sound like mum):

“Hay hwo r u we move house dog is funny wat u doin.”

And he wonders how we know it’s him and not mum?

He gives us a great laugh. Happy Father’s day, Dadda. I love you.

Emma Xx.