Though testosterone levels change as men grow older, I don’t believe this has to do with a man’s tendency to rib his children with bad puns. If you are looking for a book about the loss of a parent and grief, and mixed feelings about letting them go, then I recommend it. She doesn’t know how the scientist made it through without a scratch but figures she’ll do the same.

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Well Dad, I got home from school early today and went up to your bedroom and there was Mom, flat on her back with her legs in the air, screaming, 'Jesus, I'm coming! I would highly recommend this collection to fellow lovers of poetry and fellow members of the dead dad club. If I had to sum up these jumbled thoughts I have put down on paper about all the ways someone with a living dad makes me feel discomfort, it would be this: I simply do not care if my dead dad jokes make you uncomfortable, and I can certainly assure you that when given an option, you’d end up choosing a joke about my dad over me making you feel bad about having a father who is alive.

But, as we mentioned, it takes two to tango, so the recipient of the joke is just as important as the corny joke itself. They’re the kind of jokes that make you groan and roll your eyes, but you can’t help but laugh at them anyway. Urn” sounds like “earn” in this context, making light of the fact that crematoriums are the reason behind urns. I do feel that Ollie's work evokes much more emotion when read aloud and I found this collection didn't really flow as well in my head as I had hoped. The collection feels cohesive because all the poems are related to the titular theme, but the content isn’t repetitive.

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As many of you may know, I’m not the biggest fan of poetry because I never feel moved by or taken with them – there’s no connection or power between the words and me. You may leave this life at any moment: have this possibility in your mind in all that you do or say or think. My decision to make these jokes doesn’t take away from the fact that my dad dying is a very sad and terrible thing that shouldn’t have happened when I was 11 years old. If you’re not sure what to expect from a dead dad joke, just remember that they’re usually pretty corny.Although, I will admit that some poems I didn't like as much and some others, I believe would have been more powerful had they been shortened. Welcome to our community of 19+ million annual readers, we are so grateful to have you here with us. We’re renovating the house, and the first floor is going great, but the second floor is another story. In Dead Dad Jokes, Ollie Schminkey recounts their experiences as a caretaker with both tenderness and an arresting honesty, and in doing so, continues to care for us.