A friend of mine happened to mention this in a recent text conversation, “We stayed in an Airbnb in Mechanicsville last week.” My reply was that that statement sounded like the punch line of a joke, like:
How can you tell when the travel restrictions of COVID have finally driven you mad?
When you realize that you actually stayed in an Airbnb in Mechanicsville last week.
Lots of people have asked me where in the world I get the thousands of jokes I have shared in this space and others over the years. Well, probably 80% or more of them I have gotten from a handful of awesome dad joke sites. But the rest I have cobbled together myself, mostly using a rather simple formula. Think of the punch line first. Then work backward. For example, the other day I was thinking about Maine and the time I took the family out on a lobsterman boat in the Penobscot Bay to watch a demonstration of how that business works. So, I naturally stated thinking about the lobster pot buoys, of how each lobsterman has his own distinctive color or design to differentiate his buoys from all the others. Then the phrase good buoys popped into my head. The joke that proceeded from this thought practically wrote itself:
You hear about the Lobsterman in Maine who redesigned all his pot markers to look like the face of his dog?
They were very good buoys...
To which my son responded...
..........By the way, here’s a picture of that Lobsterman boat trip on the Lively Lady:
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