Dad Jokes

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This is a community for sharing those cheesy “dad” jokes that invoke an eye roll or chuckle.

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submitted 1 year ago by PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca to c/dadjokes@lemmy.world

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[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Donkey Ote. Pronounced "Don Quixote"

[–] Arrakis@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Thank you, I feel like an ass

[–] Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago

Then wouldn't it make more sense to call it Shot?

[–] TenderfootGungi@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Had to Google it. A Spanish novel.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I haven't actually read it either, but it's pretty famous. It's where the idiom "tilting at windmills" comes from.

And the ship from the expanse is a reference to it.