Dad Jokes
A young man from the hinterlands became the first in his family to attend university. When the son returned home around Christmas time at the close of the fall semester, the father asked the son if he had gained any knowledge from his first term in an institution of higher learning. "Uh," the son replied, "pi r squared." The father reached across and smacked the son on the side of the head. "Ain't you learnt nothin'?" he demanded. "Pie are not square. Pie are round. Cornbread are square." I first heard that joke from my dad decades ago. Today, with the benefit of more than half a lifetime's experience as a dad/stepdad, I can tell dad jokes with the best of them. It is this spirit that I offer a sequel to the original. The town was too small to rate a bus station. The Greyhound busses that stopped here did so on the side of the highway. Or at least they did on those rare occasions when someone actually wanted to get on the bus here—a