Marilyn's Photos - June 15 2025 - Father's Day Humour

 

There are many Father's Day Joke headlines. They get attention and get clicked on.  What are the most popular types of Father's Day jokes?  They don't seem to think about that much. I guess research in this area would be sparse.  Research on jokes in general seems sparse.  Perhaps there are lots of Departments of Linguistics or Philosophy rather than a Department of Humour.  Although the University of Colorado Boulder has the Humor Research Lab, where they are researching the benign violation theory.  Doesn't that sound like a university sort of topic? As I sorted through various Father's Day jokes, this one came up and is  appropriately "groanful" even if it doesn't relate to Father's Day. Hey, I can’t stop singing the ‘Green Green Grass of Home’ “That sounds like Tom Jones syndrome” “Is it common?”   “It’s not unusual” And here's a visual selection of typical groanful Dad jokes. I suggest groanful is the most popular type of Dad joke.

I went to the Royal Botanical Gardens yesterday to see the Rose Show and the Rose Garden. This picture is from a few years ago during COVID when there were few people and the roses weren't as tall.  The sky comes from Skyrim - a nice colour match with the flowers.

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June 13 2020 - Dawn Chorus

Which birds sing all summer long?  Robins do. They are singing this morning as though they just got back from the south.  Robins only stop singing while they are moulting.  While robins can sing all day long it is in the earliest hours, typically starting at 4:00am that they sing louder, livelier, and more frequently.  If we were to follow robins to their winter homes, they sing all winter too.  They only stop singing at night, and are one of the last to stop singing each day. Some birds sing more when it is cooler in the early mornings or after a rain.  Others prefer the hot weather - goldfinches are an example of this.   We can expect birds to go on singing into summer and to diminish around August when they are moulting or foraging widely as food is abundant. Many of us have really noticed the bird song this year.  With less traffic noise and fewer people about this year, it is easier to hear them and birds are more active. More irises today, again taken at the Royal Botanical Gardens Laking Garden.  This is a messy flower in my view.  Even if it was allowable to pick or cut off the dead flowers, there would likely be damage to the overall stem.  So it is hard to get a picture of a grouping or mass of flowers.  Mostly one takes portraits of individual flowers.

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