Shoes, Ships, and Sealing Wax

When is a door not a door?

When it's ajar!

That was the first joke I ever learned. It was on a popsicle stick, and my father had to explain it, because I didn't know what "ajar" meant. I was maybe four years old.

My sense of humor has not gotten any more mature. When the "Laugh Lab" at the University of Hertfordshire came out with the results of the world's funniest joke last year, I laughed harder at the joke submitted most often (300 times) but that got no votes:

What's brown and sticky?

A stick.

Posted by Nic at July 20, 2003 09:46 PM