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Comment author: rhollerith_dot_com 26 January 2011 03:08:49AM 0 points [-]

when I was in second grade the standard anti-humor joke was,

"Why did the chicken cross the road?"

"To get to the other side."

Comment author: Desrtopa 26 January 2011 03:10:31AM 5 points [-]

That was one of the first "jokes" I ever heard, and I think I was nineteen when I finally realized it was supposed to be anti-humor.

Comment author: Nisan 26 January 2011 03:42:19AM 8 points [-]

Oh, yeah. That's true. I remember being mystified by that one as a child.

Teaching jokes to children is a strange business because they seem to go through a phase where they enthusiastically tell jokes that aren't funny, as if they don't appreciate humor. It hardly matters what kind of joke you tell them.