@hacks4pancakes Just shocking 😔

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I'm laughing on the inside.
@e_urq

@hacks4pancakes 😂

@hacks4pancakes the key to dad joke is being the first to laugh.

@hacks4pancakes Don't quit your day job! LOL

@hacks4pancakes

Falling flat is the essence of dad jokes. Embrace it.

@hacks4pancakes Well, at least they didn't blow a fuse.

@hacks4pancakes it is funny. perhaps they just had too much impedance and it simply reflected back.

@hacks4pancakes That's a quality dad joke. But I guess they were able to resist it.

@hacks4pancakes love it :blobcatgiggle: ⚡

@hacks4pancakes maybe they needed you to amp it up a bit.

@hacks4pancakes

Maybe they have to re-fuse to laugh.

@hacks4pancakes That's shocking! I thought you had your jokes wired, but I guess you just have no juice. You're missing humor's essential spark.

(Sorry to be negative!)

@hacks4pancakes Well obviously because you haven't been trained in dad jokes because you're not a dad.

You should leave those things to professionals.

@hacks4pancakes
Unnaccepable.
It was a perfect joke.
@jamiestl

@hacks4pancakes

LOL! Sorry!

@hacks4pancakes they must have been very well grounded

@hacks4pancakes If they were working in air conditioning, would they be a thermo couple?

@hacks4pancakes

That was a genius level "Dad" joke! The sort of thing I might have come up with 😉

@hacks4pancakes Fizzled out, did it? No spark?

@hacks4pancakes @nicklockwood this is a great joke

@hacks4pancakes

i see it met resistance and they were not conductive to the charge of humor

Ohm well, fry again next time

@hacks4pancakes I, for one appreciate the absolutely perfect dad joke here.

@hacks4pancakes but that's a good one!

@hacks4pancakes Awww….it’s still pretty punny!

@hacks4pancakes reminds me of the time I was at a dog training class and they asked if anyone had heard of Pavlov and I said “Rings a bell,” and NO ONE LAUGHED

@hacks4pancakes OOF that is painful, I'm terribly sorry. I would probably have simply perished on the spot 😭

@hacks4pancakes
That is absolute gold! May I save it for later?

@hacks4pancakes 😶

@hacks4pancakes I for one wouldn't like to be their child, because I'd surely be grounded.

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@hacks4pancakes Ohm my heart! When the spark of inspiration strikes meets resistance or fails to complete the circuit, the humor grounding out can be shocking indeed.

@hacks4pancakes
no way how did they not get it? that's a great joke

@hacks4pancakes must have been too much negative energy in the room

@hacks4pancakes Classic #Badbitmoment. I feel for you.

@hacks4pancakes aaaahhhh. That is genius.

@hacks4pancakes They must be very down to earth, grounded people.

@hacks4pancakes I would've laughed 😄

@hacks4pancakes That's solid!

@hacks4pancakes at dinner, one will be like “Ohm my God, I can’t believe we didn’t get it!”

@hacks4pancakes sounds like they are pretty switched off

@hacks4pancakes that’s shocking!!

@hacks4pancakes maybe for them it was an old joke rather than a current one. Wattever.

@hacks4pancakes That's brilliant. Hopefully just a slow burn, and one of them will wake up in the middle of the night laughing.

@hacks4pancakes They’re just not wired for your superb humor 🙂

@hacks4pancakes wait I think that is hilarious

@hacks4pancakes
Like it.

I took a cat to the vet years ago.

The vet stuck a thermometer up it's arse and the cat yowled and struggled.

The vet asked me if he normally did that.

I honestly replied, I've never stuck anything up his arse before.

Tumbleweed.

I thought it was funny, and true.

@hacks4pancakes Thanks for the chuckle.

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Perhaps the couple experienced a moment of inertia?

@hacks4pancakes “sorry, I couldn’t RESIST it. I’m CURRENTLY trying to work on my dad jokes”

@hacks4pancakes @ScottEvtuch omg, YESSS!

@hacks4pancakes @stevegrunwell Electrians, eh? How much do they charge?

@hacks4pancakes That is fundamentally unfair. You should ask for a refund.

@hacks4pancakes

Well, as long as the power line didn't fall flat...

*stares angrily at drummer* (Stage whisper: "You're supposed to go 'ba dum tsh'!)

@hacks4pancakes I’m shocked! Shocked I tell you!

@hacks4pancakes That is quality material.

@hacks4pancakes the spark of humor is sometimes unreciprocated. You'll get 'em next time! :blobcatgiggle:

@hacks4pancakes they must've been low energy. LOW ENERGY electricians!!!!! #dadjokes

@hacks4pancakes First, very cool because women in the trades hell yes. (I have joked that I went into IT because I’d be less of a minority there.) But, speaking as a licensed electrician, THAT JOKE WAS FUNNY DAMMIT.

To be fair, my boss (also my brother) and I used to relish the chance to tell customers “be gone! You have no power here!” Glinda-style. (Lots of queer customers)

@hacks4pancakes no laugh? I bet that really hertz.

@hacks4pancakes I love this pun so much. :D

@hacks4pancakes
You kow they are going to discuss changing the business name to that now.
@the_etrain

@hacks4pancakes

I guess that's not how they conduct business.

@hacks4pancakes Well, you know how electricians are; they get quiet and serious if they’re not sure if they’re somewhere they’re not grounded…

@hacks4pancakes This was shared on lemmy and I felt like I had to come over here to tell you that was hilarious!

@hacks4pancakes they prolly heard it all the time.

@hacks4pancakes you diode on yer arse!

@hacks4pancakes Fell flat?! That's some top shelf pun right there.

@hacks4pancakes I think it’s brilliant. 😂

@hacks4pancakes that's good dad jokeage though.

@hacks4pancakes pfft they had no sense of humor because that's fantastic (and I am an electrician too)

@hacks4pancakes not here it didn't, +1

@hacks4pancakes @nicklockwood Such a good joke tho!!

@hacks4pancakes @annamal It’s not your volt

@hacks4pancakes lots of resistance eh?

@hacks4pancakes @mekkaokereke Had no spark in it. Pity….

@hacks4pancakes pity...that was a good one.

@hacks4pancakes @mekkaokereke Shocking!

@hacks4pancakes true Dad jokes fall flat.

It's only after several moments of time does the beauty reveal itself

@hacks4pancakes I would have laughed

@hacks4pancakes That's gold. I aspire to that level of dad-ness.

@hacks4pancakes
Excellent! 👏

@hacks4pancakes

Get new electricians. Those people are clearly not to be trusted.

@hacks4pancakes heh, "couldn't resist" ohms my god that's good

@hacks4pancakes I chuckled.

@hacks4pancakes That's gold, Jerry! GOLD!

@hacks4pancakes i... feel compelled to share this in slack but that also feels like a violation 😅😂

it's a great dad joke though

@hacks4pancakes so it was a true dad joke. True ones are lost on the masses and only appreciated by dads

@hacks4pancakes You gotta be able to gauge your audience before you get all amped up on a new joke or you’ll end up short every time.

@hacks4pancakes flat in this context must be referring the British slang for an unchanged or dead battery.

@hacks4pancakes The best dad jokes are fairly grounded

@hacks4pancakes I’m sorry for the loss of your whose line worthy joke :(

@hacks4pancakes hall of fame dad joke there

@hacks4pancakes here you go. Lol!

@hacks4pancakes

fabulous!!

Real laughter happened reading this 🤣😂

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But it’s such a positive observation with no negative connotation!

@hacks4pancakes ughhh...watts wrong with them? It was good.

@hacks4pancakes Ohm, my.