Knock Knock

[jimhines]

Thank you to everyone who commented and shared their stories yesterday. I wish I was able to write the kind of thoughtful replies to everyone that you all deserve, but unless I quit the day job or abandon the family to be an Internet hermit... So thank you, both for sharing, and for keeping a potentially inflammatory topic relatively safe and

Comments

[dedbutdrmng]

I remember one joke from my primary school:

This man walks into a butchers and says, 'have you got any cats?' The butcher says, 'no, this is a butchers. The man replies, 'it's alright, I've got my bike outside.'

Still makes me laugh.

Still have no idea why.

[mmuenzler]

[greenmtnboy18]

Ours was:

knock knock...
who's there?
peanut butter.
peanut butter who?
peanut butter crackers!

We started just laughing because it was so damn *random*, and sure enough, the reinforcement kicked in...

Of course, she's now 19 and we still joke about it.

[jimhines]

I need to tell that one to the boy and see how he responds :-)

[jimhines]

That didn't take long.

Response one: peanut butter crackers who?

Response two: he then told me the joke, but changed the punchline to "peanut butter and jelly!"

And now he's off telling his mama:

Knock knock
Who's there?
Banana
Banana who?
Banana peanut butter and jelly!

[tabaquis]

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/banana

[jimhines]

Nice to know the corrupion of knock-knock jokes is a universal phenomenon :-)

[editormum]

Heh. I love these:

My three year old has this one:

Knock knock
Who's there?
Boo
Boo who?
BOO why are you crying? (It's supposed to be just Why are you crying? but she doesn't quite get the concept!)

And one of my personal favourites from university...

Why is a fish?
Because a bicycle has two wheels...

[jimhines]

My son has stumbled through the boo who one too. The massacre of knock knock jokes seems to be a very standard developmental phase. Someone should write a paper!

[jimhines]

It's a sign. These two are destined to meet one day, after which they shall proceed to TAKE OVER THE WORLD.