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I like clean-to-PG13-or-so jokes best. Kenko's was good but for the length it could use more than just one pun for payoff. (Like the bottom-of-the-ninth-basses-loaded joke).
St. Peter's minding the pearly gates when nature calls, so he asks Jesus to take over for him. "All you have to do," he tells him, "is ask them a little about their family and how they spent their time on earth. It's easy." So Jesus agrees to help out for a bit.
Soon an old man approaches the gates. "Hold on a minute," Jesus says. "First, I have to ask some questions. How did you spend your time on earth?"
"I was a carpenter," the man replies.
"A carpenter! How wonderful. Tell me about your family."
"Well, I had one son. But he really wasn't my son."
"Not really your son," says an intrigued Jesus. "What do you mean?"
"Well," said the old man, "he wasn't really a man."
"Not really a man!" exclaimed Jesus. "Please, tell me more!"
"The last time I saw him he had holes in his hands and holes in his feet."
With this bit of information, Jesus jumps up excitedly and yells, "DAD!"
And the old man jumps up excitedly and yells, "Pinocchio!"