Whois & Analysis for thedad.com

Welcome to the Club is a 1989 Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Cy Coleman.

Despite its run of only twelve performances, it was nominated for two Tony Awards, and some other honors.

A meme, a neologism coined by Richard Dawkins, is "an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture".

A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a mimicked theme.

Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate, mutate, and respond to selective pressures.

Parenting or child rearing is the process of promoting and supporting the physical, emotional, social, financial, and intellectual development of a child from infancy to adulthood.

Parenting refers to the aspects of raising a child aside from the biological relationship.

Humour (or humor in American English) is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement.

The term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which taught that the balance of fluids in the human body, known as humours (Latin: humor, "body fluid"), controlled human health and emotion.

A joke is a display of humour in which words are used within a specific and well-defined narrative structure to make people laugh.

It takes the form of a story, usually with dialogue, and ends in a punch line.

It is in the punch line that the audience becomes aware that the story contains a second, conflicting meaning.

This can be done using a pun or other word play such as irony, a logical incompatibility, nonsense or other means.

Linguist Robert Hetzron offers the definition: