Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Dad Jokes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoWhat do you call a seagull when it lives in a bay?message-squaremessage-square5linkfedilinkarrow-up161arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up158arrow-down1message-squareWhat do you call a seagull when it lives in a bay?Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Dad Jokes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square5linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareBroken@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·23 hours agoI learned it as: Why do seagulls fly by the sea? Because if they flew by the bay they’d be bagels. I think the flow is nicer and leads the listener down the path “logically”. Saying bay in the question tips your hand and is less of a surprise. But still one of my favorite classics.
minus-squareprettybunnys@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·22 hours agoGrowing up on a bay the joke was: Q: Why don’t we have seagulls on the bay? A: they’d be bagels The real reason is cuz the land surrounding the water supports eagles and osprey, so they’re just food if they live there. “Bagels indeed”
I learned it as: Why do seagulls fly by the sea? Because if they flew by the bay they’d be bagels.
I think the flow is nicer and leads the listener down the path “logically”. Saying bay in the question tips your hand and is less of a surprise.
But still one of my favorite classics.
Growing up on a bay the joke was:
Q: Why don’t we have seagulls on the bay?
A: they’d be bagels
The real reason is cuz the land surrounding the water supports eagles and osprey, so they’re just food if they live there. “Bagels indeed”