Onions the Dog

The joke plays on the reader's expectation. The first sentence leads you to believe the person is crying because of cutting onions, but the second sentence reveals that the "onions" referred to was actually a dog's name. The humor comes from the unexpected twist in meaning.

• Onion
• Dad
• Dark Humor
• Dog
• Family
• Short jokes

• I started crying when my dad cut up onions. Onions was such a good hamster.
• Cats are like onions; when I cut them, I cry.
• What’s the difference between an onion and a photo of a dead relative? Nothing, they both make you cry when you look at it.
• Only if onions were emo, they'd cut themselves.