A soldier was asked to clean the rifles. He spent hours on it. When his sergeant checked, he found that the soldier had polished the rifle so much that it was blindingly shiny. The sergeant said, 'Son, we want clean rifles, not disco balls!'
Once, a group of soldiers were on a long march. One of them had a blister on his foot. He said to his friend, 'I feel like I'm walking on hot coals.' His friend replied, 'Well, at least you're not walking through a minefield!' This made the whole group laugh and forget about their tiredness for a while. There's something about the camaraderie in the army that makes even the simplest of jokes funny among soldiers.
In an army barracks, there were two soldiers arguing about who was the better shot. One said, 'I can hit a target from a mile away.' The other said, 'That's nothing. I can shoot a fly off a general's nose without him even noticing!' They both knew they were exaggerating but it was all in good fun.
In an army base, there was a cook who was known for his really bad cooking. One day, the general came for an inspection. He tasted the food and said, 'This tastes like something the enemy would use as a weapon!' The cook replied, 'Sir, in that case, we should win every battle easily then!'
There was a time when a new recruit was so nervous during a parade that he started marching in the wrong direction. Everyone was stunned at first, but then burst out laughing. The recruit was really embarrassed but it became a story that was told for a long time in the unit.
One funny element can be the unexpected twist. For example, in a story about a sleepy owl, instead of sleeping in a tree like normal, it ends up sleeping in a fishbowl. Another is the use of talking animals doing human - like things. Like a group of squirrels having a tea party and arguing about which acorn is the best for the tea. Also, silly dialogues are often funny. Such as a pig telling a horse, 'You run too much, you should learn to roll in the mud like me.'
A funny story turns into a joke when it has elements of surprise, absurdity, or irony. It might play with common expectations or use humorously exaggerated situations. The key is that it provokes a strong and immediate reaction of laughter.
A good story joke is often funny when it has unexpected twists or plays with common stereotypes in a clever way.
Here's one: Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything!
A classic dad joke story is when a dad says, 'What did the ocean say to the beach? Nothing, it just waved.' It's a really simple and well - known one. Another is, 'Why don't eggs tell jokes? They'd crack up.'
Well, here is a different one. I'm reading a book about anti - gravity. It's impossible to put down. The humor comes from the double meaning of 'put down' which can mean both to stop reading a book and to place something down physically.
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I can answer some humorous jokes. Here is an example: Once an editor asked him,"What kind of novel do you think is the easiest to publish?" Answer: " The kind of novel that can attract the interest of the readers at the beginning, and then the plot will continue to progress until the readers are deeply attracted and have no choice but to publish it." The editor was silent for a while and then said," You know, I'm the opposite. I prefer novels that are hated by readers at the beginning and have to give up in the end."