Dead Dad Jokes by Ollie Schminkey is a Button Poetry published collection dealing with the death of her father from a terminal illness. Though the main themes of this book are queerness and grief, the trauma and writing are spun on its head because the bond between Ollie and their father was never particularly strong or even healthy and accepting. Consequently, the poetry collection examines and explores how death and pain altered the author’s relationship with their father. If it evokes a reaction somewhere between cringing and earnest laughter, and you simultaneously want to tell the person sharing the joke to tell you more and also shut up because they’re embarrassing you in front of your friends, congratulations, you’re in the presence of a Dad joke.

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The writing style of the author was lucid & harsh. Something which is necessary whilst talking about grief. Their poems had a sense of familiarity, since we have all experienced grief of losing our loved ones, at least once in our lives. Their words are highly moving and once the readers starts reading, it would be very difficult to put down the book. Ah, dad jokes. We’ve all heard them – those overly-simplistic one-liners said with sincere humorous intent, but which normally end up falling flat. And that’s exactly what we like about dad jokes – the fact that the deliverer usually has no idea how simplistic and uncool their joke is. There are more dead people than living, and their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.” Dead dad jokes do not mean that I am in any way over my loss. The simple fact is that you never get over losing someone you loved so deeply. What it does mean is that I have moved on to a new point in my life and my grief. It means I have chosen a way that makes my dad’s death tolerable and livable for me. The fact that I learned a positive way to cope is all that really matters here, not you or your opinion on how I should deal with it. Am I saying the d-word to much? Does it make you uncomfortable? Would you prefer I said, “Oh, he passed on when I was 11?” Or would you rather me not talk about it at all? When you ask me how it happened, do you want the short story or the long one with painful details? Does it weird you out that I still talk about him like he is still alive? Maybe I should pretend that he never existed at all? Please let me know what I can do on my end to make you feel more comfortable about the fact that someone in my life that I love died.

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Do you know what I want to say to people when they say things like that? I want to tell them my dad will never walk me down the aisle. He will never give me away to the man I choose to spend my life with. I will never dance with my dad ever again. I want to remind them my dad can’t call me when I am busy or when I am doing nothing at all. I want them to understand that I will only have a finite number of stories my dad told me for the rest of my life because he never got the chance to repeat them. Or that the worst part is that I only have a few memories that actually include my dad. A will is where the deceased lists how they want their belongings and assets distributed to friends and family. In other words, it’s a chance for the dead to “giveaway” their things. 10. Speaking badly of the dead is a grave mistake. Be aware of your audience. Not everyone is going to appreciate dead dad jokes. If you’re not sure whether or not someone will find them funny, it’s probably best to avoid them altogether.

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I am going to end the review here before I get more emotional. Overall this was a positive reading experience and I hope we get to read more from the author. Read jokes about dead dad that are clean and suitable for kids and friends. If you're looking for a good laugh, then look no further. #deaddadjokes https://t.co/V0ODKVCuZy My father was from Aberdeen and a more generous man you couldn’t wish to meet. I have a gold watch that belonged to him. He sold it to me on his deathbed. I wrote him a cheque for it, post-dated, of course.”

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Although, I will admit that some poems I didn't like as much and some others, I believe would have been more powerful had they been shortened. But then again that's a personal preference.

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The Girls At My High School Used To Call Sweatpants "Give-Up-On-Life Pants" ( I really liked this one. The ending...too real.). Particular love for this part: "i see an old man using a walker on the sidewalk, This. This is what people who grieve go through every day. I used to worry about whether or not I brought up my dad too much. I would stop myself in the middle of a sentence sometimes because I felt like it would damper the moment. One time I even noticed a voice in my head tell me to not bring up my dad. It made me realize I was letting my dad disappear by not bringing him up, and for the benefit of who? And at what cost? To make people feel okay about something that didn’t happen to them? During my calculus test, I had to sit between identical twins. It was hard to differentiate between them. Like the author, I am queer, I had a complicated relationship with my father, and my father died of an illness in hospice (although the author's father took far longer to die than my own did). These similarities were really striking for me, and it was easy to relate them to my own experiences. It was so striking to read because a number of the poems felt like they came from somewhere inside me rather than something a separate human wrote. Reading the experiences that differed from my own was almost jarring, like it interrupted a moment inside me, although this is absolutely not the fault of the book or author. It comforted me to read something so raw and that I related to so deeply. If I ever find the doctor who screwed up my limb replacement surgery…I’ll kill him with my bear hands.I tried to explain to my 4-year-old son that it’s perfectly normal to accidentally poop your pants. But he’s still making fun of me. I tried to start a professional hide and seek team, but it didn't work out. Turns out, good players are hard to find. I know there are reasons that this book speaks to me. Like the poet, I've held the hand of someone I love as they die. I've been there for the undignified end, seen the way a body changes when there's no life in it, wondered how everyone and everything else can just keep going on like the world hasn't ended, when I just saw it happen. And that's the exact feeling that this collection manages to make manifest. The bizarreness of sitting at a party, as the poet describes, while everyone else around you is having fun, and all you can think about is how different someone's face looks when they've been dead for half an hour. The unrelenting urge to speak out about it, the way you want to be asked about it but also don't ever want anyone else to know what you saw, the way everyone else's problems are nothing in the face of your grief. These feelings are at once universal to anyone who's ever been bereaved and also entirely personal on the part of the poet; no-one's grief is ever the same, even when they've lost the same person, and I think Schminkey really excels in conveying the complexities of grieving someone. What did the priest say to the altar boy? Nothing. His mother taught him not to talk with his mouth full. Lenny went on vacation and asked Bobby to watch over his house. About a week later, Lenny calls home and asked Bobby, “How’s my cat?”

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A policy officer caught two kids playing with a firework and a car battery. He charged one and let the other off.Yesterday I accidentally swallowed some food colouring. The doctor says i'm ok, but i feel like i've dyed a little inside. If you're the type to get the last laugh, this could even work as your headstone subscription. You wouldn't be the first to use a funny tomstone message to make people laugh. 11. Why do ghosts ride the elevator? To lift their spirits. They’re sentenced to death. Not that their “crime” was all that severe, but the ruler just got a sweet deal on a second-hand electric chair, and he’s itching to give it a go. What’s the difference between getting a blood transfusion and being intimate with a man? My Dad didn’t get AIDS from a blood transfusion. If you’re joking about the deceased person’s sense of humor, hint that her “killer puns” were the death of her. 4. He was dying to get into the funeral business.