Hello everyone and welcome to a new series of distractions for you to dip in to any time you need them.
Alongside weird words, crap poems and haiku hope, I imagine these silly pages might raise a bit of a smile, or at least distract you, while you’re waiting for help, whether it’s on the phone, a friend popping round or sat in the doctors waiting room.
Every page in the COPE campaign section of this website has ideas for you to try yourself, listen to, or just read.
If you’re on hold for a helpline (I’ve been there too and I know (at times) it can take an hour or more) then I also have alternative contact information for lots of great mental health support lines on my dedicated page.
Anyway, ‘Hold Humour’ will be dedicated to some silly jokes that I either find, hear, or that get passed on via my daughter. Don’t expect anything too complex – I’m not Rob and Romesh – but these little one liners are designed to temporarily act as a distraction and, if they make you smile or cringe, you can pass them on to someone else.
Here are the first jokes in the series. I hope you like them!
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Hold Humour Part 1
Joke 1
Question
Where does a general keep his armies?
Answer
Up his sleevies!
Joke 2
Question
Why did the man stare at the orange juice?
Answer
Because it said ‘concentrate’!
Joke 3
Question
How do you know you’re getting old?
Answer
When you go to an antique auction people bid on you.
Joke 4
I was wondering why the frisbee kept getting bigger and bigger, and then it hit me.
Joke 5
Don’t you hate it when someone answers their own questions? I do.
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Also, the artwork for all the COPE Campaign ideas I produce will be changing over the coming days to look more like what you see above.
I hope you enjoyed the jokes and I hope you like the coming changes too!
Thanks for reading 💜
Creative Steph 