Go Retire Psychiatrist

Sena had a dad joke for me today that she saw in a newspaper article on line:

“My roof got tilted today. And the contractor said it was on the house.”

Dad jokes can be cringeworthy but they shouldn’t make you wrinkle your forehead. I started wondering:

How do you tilt a roof? Do contractors tilt roofs? How would they do that? Aren’t all roofs tilted unless they’re flat?

So, I looked up the news article and here’s how the joke really went:

“My neighbor tiled my roof for free. He said it was on the house.”

She meant “tiled” not “tilted.” I can see how it happened. The words “tiled” and “tilted” could easily be switched by mistake.

This led me to again look up that 48-page study posted on Open Science Framework (OSF) about dad jokes in which the researchers pulled thousands of jokes from the Reddit r/dadjokes community.

The authors say that a reader could find 40 jokes in the paper, but I couldn’t find them. But here’s a good one in it:

What do you call a bunch of chess players bragging about their games in a hotel lobby? Chestnuts boasting in an open foyer.

I tried tilting at a windmill once…I blew it.