Today is Fathers' Day in the United States. I enjoyed reading a column, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/06/15/732904685/opinion-heres-a-dad-joke-what-does-the-buffalo-tell-his-son-in-the-morning" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Here's A Dad Joke! What Does The Buffalo Tell His Son In The Morning?</a> A "Dad joke" is "an obvious or predictable pun or play on words, and usually judged to be endearingly corny or unfunny." Dads tell them to their kids when their kids are old enough to understand them.

For an explanation of each one, drag your mouse between the arrows (or "select all.")

Here are some of the examples of "Dad jokes" in the article. How many of them do you "get?"

<em>See that farmer? A man outstanding in his field.</em>

<em>--> </em>"A man outstanding in his field" means "famous in his profession." For example, Yitzhak Perlman's "field" is playing the violin. He is outstanding in his field. A farmer grows crops in a field. You will often see him out in the field, standing. He is "out standing in his field." <--

<em>A termite walks into a bar and asks, "Is the bar tender here?"</em>

-->A bartender serves drinks in a bar. Someone might ask "is the bartender here?" A bar is a long counter made of wood. Termites are insects that eat wood. The termite is asking whether the bar is "tender"--soft and easy for a termite to eat. <--

<em>That graveyard is so popular, people are dying to get in!</em>

--> "Dying to get in" is an idiom meaning "wanting badly to get in." People might be "dying to get in" at a popular night club. A graveyard is a place where dead people are buried. In order to "get in," you need to be dead. The idea is that people are literally dying, so that they can be buried in this graveyard. <--

<em>What does the buffalo tell his son in the morning? Bye, son!</em>

--> A father leaving for work might say "Bye, son!" "Buffalo" is a name for a number of large, bovine animals; in the United States, it usually refers to the American bison. We use both the words "buffalo" and "bison" for the same animal. "Bison" sounds exactly the same as "bye, son." <--