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I found a really, really cool looking book while I was putting books away today. It’s called Why eating bogeys is good for you. In my last post, I talked about jokes being funny when they have a punch line that takes your brain by surprise. Another way that jokes can be funny is when they are a little bit “naughty” or impolite. Polite boys and girls don’t talk about eating bogeys, do they? Especially around their grannies! But disgusting facts and stories can be so much fun. For example, one of my favourite stories is by Paul Jennings called ‘Little Squirt’ in Unmentionable: Disgusting!! But hilarious!

WARNING: be very careful with impolite jokes. Choose the right time and place to tell them otherwise you may get into trouble – and that is definitely not funny!

Why are jokes funny?

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Did you know that a really, really clever person in Britain decided to study jokes? He found out that our brain has a funnybone!! He used a special scanner, called an NMI scanner, to measure brain activity. While he was scanning their brain he read them some unfunny sentences. Then he read them some jokes. When people listened to a joke the brain would use the pre-frontal cortex to make sense of the punchline (the important or funny part of the joke). This showed that jokes are funny to people because they have a funnybone inside their noggin AND that jokes work when the punchline is completely different to what they expected. For example: Two fish were inside a tank and one says to the other: “How do you drive this thing?”  Lol. Funny, huh?

Want a good laugh?

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Want a good laugh? Then check out these goofy jokes.

There were three men standing under the umbrella and none of them got wet. How could that be?It wasn’t raining of course!

Knock-knockWho’s there?
Omelette.
Omelette who?
Omelette smarter that I look.

Where do tadpoles change into frogs?
In the croakroom

What do you call a man with no arms and no legs floating out at sea?
Bob

And last but not least,
What do you find up a clean nose?
Fingerprints
Yuk

Funny, goofy and ridiculous but always good for a laugh. Check out Kids Cat for more jokes and comics.