This set of jokes mostly work, initially, through the linguistic intelligence

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“Did you hear about the butcher who accidentally backed into the meat grinder?”

“He got a little behind in his work.”

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“Heard about the cannibal who was excluded from school?”

“They caught him buttering up his teacher.”

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“What d'you have in December you don't have in any other month?”

“d”

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“How do you get holy water?”

“Boil the hell out of it!”

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“Have you heard the one about the dyslexic atheist?”

“She doesn't believe in dogs!”

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“There was this bloke that lost his left arm and leg in a car crash….”

“Is he all right now?”

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“He told me these two silkworms had a race…. D'you know which of them won?

“Ended up in a tie.”

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Teaching questions:

• What is the lowest level you could use these two-liners with?
• Would you present them to the students orally or in writing?
• What order of funniness/ non-funniness would you put them in yourself?
• And your students?
• The only problem with this idea is that ranking things is a logical-mathematical and rather humourless task!