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It was Father's Day last weekend but what do you give a father who has everything he needs? My thoughtful daughter, Frances, found something new that would enrich my life - "the little button of big laughs" as shown above. Press it 135 times and you will hear 135 different jokes - more specifically "dad jokes". I asked Google what a "dad joke" actually was and received this answer - "an unoriginal or predictable joke, especially a pun, of a type supposedly told by fathers."

Okay, I can go along with that. I admit that I have told some pretty corny jokes in my time but what I will say in my defence and in defence of fathers everywhere is that dad jokes are generally much funnier than mum jokes. Do mums even tell jokes?

These are the kind of jokes you hear when you press my "Dad Jokes" button...

How did I know my girlfriend thought I was invading her privacy? ...She wrote about it in her diary.

I went to the aquarium this weekend, but I didn’t stay long.... There’s something fishy about that place.

Two windmills were sitting on a hill. One asks the other, "Do you have a favourite song?" The other replies, "Well... all my life I have been a heavy metal fan."

Today at the bank, an old lady asked me to check her balance... So I pushed her over.

Can a frog jump higher than a house?... Of course, a house can't jump.

I was going to try an all almond diet... but that's just nuts.

I only know 25 letters of the alphabet... I don't know y.

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I realise that at this moment you are probably in such a state of side-splitting merriment that you have had to pick yourself up off the floor. However, if you have got a good dad joke up your sleeve - why not share it in the comments?