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My four-year-old daughter was making her breakfast the other day and she told me a joke which actually made me laugh out loud (lol).
“What do cows eat for breakfast?” she asked. “I don't know – what do cows eat for breakfast?” I responded, resisting the urge to say: “Grass.”
“Moofins!” she fired back instantly, before chortling heartily. If I had been wearing a cap – not something I do regularly in my kitchen at 7am on a winter morning – I would definitely have doffed it. I had always assumed punchlines from minors will be weak (punchlines from miners are even worse – Arthur Scargill has never even made me titter), but this was a strong bit of wordplay from my offspring.
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