Be Wise About What You Joke About

 

  I've spent a lot of time teaching you how to tell jokes, what jokes are good to tell, and some good genres of jokes.  Yet, I've never told you about the most important aspect of jokes...Telling appropriate jokes.  I'm not talking about telling school appropriate and mature jokes(though, you should), I'm talking about jokes that make fun of someone, or insult an aspect of someone's life.  This will obviously hurt somebody's feelings, which will either result in them not talking or interacting with you for or long time, or forever.  You should never joke about someone's religion, beliefs, habits, feelings, and personal identity.  In other words, you shouldn't make fun of someone, because of who they are.  In fact you shouldn't make fun of someone at all!

  

  A common form of making fun of somebody, is gossip, or rumors.  The facts that arise in gossip, are usually either not true, or a deep dark secret that the gossiper found out through vicious, or mysterious means.  This is not joking(though the gossiper may think so), it is just plain bullying.  And that is not right at all.  So be wise, and joke nice, and we will all live happily ever after, because if you do you shall not pass onto this blog!

Gandalf is enforcing that rule!

Important Notice

  All comments on the Daily Jokes page are being deleted, to make room for joke contest commenters.  Though, my decision is not definite, I 'd like you to understand why all the comments were deleted off the page, the next time you look there.