Dad Jokes

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submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yes, they forgot the apostrophe, so the Dad took "Have you seen the dogs bowl?" to mean "Have you seen the dogs go bowling?"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Oohhh OK, now I get it. I was missing that 'bowl' is short for bowling.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You could also read it as a vowel.

(in bowling) to roll a ball along a smooth surface during a game of bowls or bowling

(in Cricket) to throw a ball towards a batsman (= the player who hits the ball) using a vertical circular movement of the arm while running:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/bowl

[–] pipes 2 points 5 months ago

It's not short for bowling (although it can be expressed like that too), it's the infinitive form of the verb, to bowl. "Have you seen the birds fly?"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

While that gives the response more legitimacy, dads don't actually care about the grammar and will make a smart ass response just based on how the question sounds.