LIGHTEN YOUR LOAD

What’s so funny about this? Light bulb jokes are in a whole category by themselves. They all begin with “How many (fill in the name) does it take to change a light bulb?” Mostly, these jokes fall into the category of insult jokes. After all, it doesn’t take a lot of brains to change a bulb. So the implication is that if you’re a member of a particular nationality, or religion, or profession, then you don’t have the brains to change a bulb by yourself. I’ll admit that some of these jokes are extremely funny, but I tend, most of the time, to avoid jokes that might offend one group or another. So in today’s joke the target group is baby sitters. Just by asking the set-up question there’s already an implication that an insult is coming. But when you get to the answer to the question you’re hit with a pun on the word “change”, which makes it a delightful surprise. There’s no mystery what it means to change a light bulb. The word “change” here means replace. BUT changing a baby does NOT usua