CONGRATULATIONS
Well done for picking up this book – you have made a very wise choice indeed. It contains most of my best jokes and loads of the funniest jokes I’ve ever heard.
Before you start reading it, though, I think I need to make a few things clear. This book will NOT make you richer, it will NOT make you more popular and it WON’T make you taller (unless you stand on top of it – in that case it will make you around eight millimetres taller).
What I can say for sure is that this book WILL make you snort tea or milkshake (or whatever you happen to be drinking) out of your nose at least six times.
Enjoy these jokes and remember: if you would like to be eight centimetres taller, please buy ten copies of this book!
FANCy a KICK AROUND? maybe later ... I’ve got a better idea.
Yes! I made It In tIme!
I WONDER WHAT’S DOWN THERE?
FOR MUM, DAD, HANNAH, ADA, BOB, EVE, OTTO AND ALL THE OTHER PALINDROMIC PEOPLE
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I’M A SATELLITE.
MY BUM’S BEEN SET-ALIGHT.
I HOPE THERE ARE JOKES ABOUT DOORS.
HELLO, FELLOW CLOUDS. I’M NOT A CLOUD.
WELL, WHAT ARE YOU, THEN?
AND JAM JOKES TOO.
YOU’LL FIND OUT ON PAGE 54.
WHEN IS A DOOR NOT A DOOR? WHEN IT’S AJAR.
WARNING
Please be warned – you won’t get every single joke in this book right away. Sometimes you might have to ask a grown-up to fully get the joke reference (and sometimes a grown-up might have to ask you!).
I have included these more sophisticated jokes because I know a lot of authors wouldn’t. Grown-ups often say things like, ‘Children are stupid and won’t understand that.’ I, however, know that despite you buying a book called A Poo on a Pogo Stick, you are definitely not stupid (OK, maybe just a little bit stupid!).
If there is a particular joke you don’t get, then you have four choices. Ignore it and move on. Research the word that you don’t understand. Ask a grown-up. Pull your eyelid down as far as it goes and then try blowing your nose.
The best thing about these kinds of jokes is that often you won’t get them until six months after you first read them. This means that, in theory, this book could actually last you until you are 112 years old – how’s that for value for money!
THANK YOU FOR NOTICING THIS NOTICE.
YOUR NOTICING IT HAS BEEN NOTED.
RIGHT, LET’S GET GOING!
WE’RE A COUPLE OF FEET AWAY FROM THE NEXT CHAPTER.
