 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Brainy
Jokes |
|
I have a knack for writing and telling stories, especially funny ones. I think I get that from my grandmother who shared some pretty spectacular tales over the years. The two of us are very close and my pet name for her is Nanna Banana. She tells me that I have a gift for making people laugh. What isn’t funny is that I seem to be losing her to Alzheimer's disease.
Something
else that hurts is to hear people joking about the disease. I think they
do that because they don’t know any better. Maybe deep down, they’re
even afraid of getting the disease. People need to know that Alzheimer's disease is a disease like any other and those that have it should be treated
with respect and dignity.
There’s nothing comical about Alzheimer's disease but I enjoy trying to cheer up Nanna whenever I can. It’s good for her to laugh and I make sure that I laugh with her not at her.
The other day she put her jacket on inside out and was upset about it. I dashed
to the bathroom and came out with my clothes on backwards and shoes on the wrong
feet. Nanna took one look at me, clapped her hands, and simply howled.
Here are some jokes Nanna would definitely approve
of.
Can you think of others?
Brainy Jokes:
I hope you find these jokes funny, but if not, maybe you could come up with some better ones!! Send them to me at: info@alzheimer.sk.ca.
Click on the 
beside each joke to see the answer.
-
What
is a sleeping brain's favorite musical group (rock band)?
-
What
does a brain do when it sees a friend across the street?
- Where does a brain go on vacation?
- What did the right hemisphere say to the
left hemisphere when they could not agree on anything?
-
What
kind of fish performs brain operations?
- What do you get when you cross a thought
with a light bulb?
- Why do neurons like e-mail?
- What works even after it is fired?
- What do you get when you cross a "bad
idea for using fur" with 100 billion neurons?
- Why are a sponge and
the brain similar?
-
What
is a neuroscientist's favorite type of dog?
- What do neurons use to talk to each other?
- What happens when you bother the parietal
lobe?
- Why is the left cerebral cortex always wrong?
What
did the brain say after it got an electrical shock?
- When does a brain get afraid?
-
Why
does your nose like to be in the middle of your face?
-
What
did the doctor say to the man who had an elephant sitting on his brain?
- What street does the hippocampus live on?
- What did one eye say to the other eye?
- Why didn't the brain want to take a bath?
- What is the brain's favorite television channel?
- What did parietal say to frontal?
What do you call a Tyrannosaurus under stress?
- When does it rain brains?
- Why was the neuron sent to the principal's
office?
- What question can you never truthfully answer
"Yes"?
- What do you call a hat for the brain?
- How much money do you have when you combine
touch, vision, smell, hearing and taste?
- What do you get when some brains ride in
a combat vehicle?
- What did the hippocampus say during its retirement
speech?
(Used with the permission of Dr. Eric H. Chudler, Neuroscience
for Kids,
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA)
