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   It’s a dad joke. You know, kid says “I’m hungry,” and dad says “Hi, hungry. I’m Dad.” In panel 2, the book starts “I am a sick man.” Dad starts panel 5 “Hi a sick man” and includes the whole book before introducing himself.

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   There’s a popular dad joke that that goes something like this:
   Child: “I’m tired!”
   Father: “Hi, Tired, I’m dad!”

   This is a twist on it, albeit one that doesn’t work because “I am a sick man” doesn’t have the ambiguity of “I am sick.”

   I don’t know which is worse: That the father used his final words to tell a pretty common joke, or that he did it wrong.

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   The dad joke here is that the dying dead is taking the entirety of Notes from Underground (except for the initial “I am”) to be his son’s name.

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   Sorry, the dying dad, not dying dead.

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   I think I (52) am the wrong generation for this type of ‘dad joke’. My dad’s jokes were of the ‘Irishman walks into a bar’, ‘traveling salesman and farmer’s daughter’ or ‘shaggy dog’/’excruciatingly long setup, leading to corny pun’ variety.

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   My sister and I would insist “I’m serious!” and the Dad reply was “Hello, Serious, I’m Robot” — which was extra puzzling at first since we were unfamiliar with the compound name “Sears, Roebuck”.

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   I didn’t get that the guy was dying, but now I see the clue: “Notes from the Underground”

   Mitch4, I love that “Serious Robot” pun. No, really! Also, it reminds me of their competitor, which my grandfather always called “Monkey Ward.”

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   It’s definitely a dad joke. “I’m a sick man” “Hi a sick man, I’m Dad!” The man is dying and he wants to perform the ultimate set up for a dad joke, 18 hours long. At the same time he may be making a pun on “I’m dead.” When he says “I’m Dad!”

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