When I was a little girl, my dad heard a joke somewhere and he repeated it to me over and over until the time of his death which was at least 20 years later. It was the dumbest joke I ever heard in my life, yet he’d tell it with gusto and never failed to laugh at my confusion. The joke? Why is a duck? And the answer? Because he has two legs both the same. Just how much dumber can a dumb jokes get? I’m 57 now, and I still don’t understand that dumb joke or why he thought it was so funny.

I decided to see if I could find a dumb joke that trumped the one Dad always told. Instinctively I knew that I would be able to find a really dumb blonde joke. My blonde daughter has despised these dumb jokes all her life, and it’s easy to see why. I read a lot of really stupid ones, and it was hard choosing the dumbest one. However, I finally decided on:

There was a dumb blonde who was sick and tired of equally dumb people making fun of her. She'd tried everything she could think of to get them to stop calling her a dumb blonde, but nothing was successful. She finally decided that if she couldn't beat them she'd join them. Therefore, she got herself a bottle of hair color and dyed her hair brunette. After all, she'd never heard of any dumb brunette jokes.

Soon thereafter she took a drive through the countryside. Out on a peaceful hillside she spied a farmer tending his flock of sheep. She thought that the sheep were just the cutest things ever, so she stopped to talk to the farmer.

"Hey," she said, "I have a deal for you. If I can guess the exact number of sheep in your flock, will you give me one of them to take home with me?"
The farmer looked her over, decided there was no way she'd ever guess the exact number, and shook hands over the agreement.
After looking at the sheep for a few seconds, the woman stated, "There are 227 sheep in your flock."
The farmer's eyes popped open in disbelief. How had she done that? However, a deal was a deal, so he told her to go over to the flock and choose the sheep she wanted. She put it in her car and started to back out onto the road when the farmer stopped her by asking, "How about another deal? Let's say that if I can guess what color your hair is naturally, you'll give me back my dog."

There’s nothing dumber than a dumb blonde joke! Or is there?

I got to wondering why there were so many dumb jokes about dumb blonde women that are continuously told by dumb people. What about dumb men? So I started looking for dumb jokes about dumb men, and there are a lot of them out there. One really stupid one I found is: How can you tell if a man is happy? Answer: Who cares!!!

What dumb people think these things up anyway?

There are even dumb jokes for those who are historically-minded. Try this one on for size: Why is George Washington buried on the side of a hill? Answer: Because he's dead.

The funny thing about dumb jokes is that they’re so bad that some of them are even funny, if you get my drift. When you tell one, you always get a response, too. It may only be a chorus of groans, but people always respond to a dumb joke even though they may not understand a really good one. Something about dumb just seems to appeal to everyone.

Of course, nothing can be dumber than real life. In order to leave you either laughing or groaning, here’s one final joke taken from real life: My neighbor works in the operations department in the central office of a large bank. Employees in the field call him when they have problems with their computers. One night he got a call from a woman in one of the branch banks who had this question: "I've got smoke coming from the back of my terminal. Do you guys have a fire downtown?"

Quiet down, now. It’s over!