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Hit 500 groaners posted and I'm honestly shocked
Just hit my 500th dad joke posted in this group and it snuck up on me hard. I started last March in Austin just messing around with puns about tacos and now I'm counting them like some kind of joke accountant. The weird part is that 500 felt like some magic line where I actually got decent at writing them. Has anyone else noticed their timing or punchlines improve after a random milestone like that?
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dylanbarnes1d ago
Man, yes, something clicks right around there. For me it was somewhere in the 300s when I stopped writing jokes the night before and started just keeping a running list in my phone notes. Little stuff like swapping "what do you call a..." for a setup that sounds like a real question made a way bigger difference than any single punchline. I also started saying them out loud while walking my dog, which sounds dumb but you hear where the pause should go. Around 500 I noticed I could feel the groan coming before I even finished the line, which is a weird superpower. Congrats on the milestone, the taco pun era was clearly just training.
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