Strange Stories and Funny Jokes

Our site has two main sections, strange but true stories and funny jokes for everyone. If you are looking for a particular subject, you can use the 'site search' box on the left. Or, if you wish, you can browse through the different categories at your leisure.

These are currently the most popular categories of jokes and stories

The Most Popular Funny Jokes Categories

British Jokes - Jokes aimed at the British sense of humour.

Did You Hear About? - Jokes including - Did you hear about the pilot who went on sick leave?

Jokes For Children - Almost 200 jokes especially chosen for children.

Knock Knock Jokes - Over 100 of these - to make you groan.

Scottish Jokes - Our fairly small collection of Scottish jokes.

What Do - Jokes - Asking "what do you get" and "what do you call"?

Why Did - Jokes - jokes such as - Why did the king visit his dentist?

Here is a randomly selected joke

Bill: It will be my birthday next week. Do you know what I need?"
Fred: Yeah, but how do you wrap a life?

More jokes like this can be found in the Birthdays section

The Most Popular Stories Categories

Funny but True Stories - Amazingly, these funny stories are all true.

Newspaper Misprints - The funny mistakes and unintentional humour in the newspaper headlines.

Here is a randomly selected story

At least once a year most birds moult - they shed their old feathers and grow new ones. Birds moult before winter so that the new feathers will have grown before the weather becomes colder.

If you want to read more stories like this, you will find them in the Fascinating Facts & Figures category.