Ruined Joke

On Friday January 18 a co-worker told me this dad joke:

"What do you call a pile of cats?"
"A Meow-tain!"

I thought it was funny.

Saturday night at dinner I asked my seven-year-old Julian, "Hey Julian, what do you call a pile of cats?"

His response?

"A clowder."

What?!?!?

"Yeah, it's a clowder."

"Yeah, but in this joke the answer is a meow-tain!"

He was like, "no, it's a clowder".

When I was seven I had no idea what a clowder was.  Hell, at 37 I still didn't know what a clowder was.  How the heck did he know this?  Was this some word he learned from Word Girl on PBS?

Anyway, a perfectly good dad joke ruined by a 2nd Grader that's smarter than his dad.

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