Every year on Father’s Day, families gather to celebrate the men who helped shape their lives. While gifts, cookouts, and family photos are wonderful traditions, the true impact of a father often cannot be wrapped in a box or captured in a picture. A father’s greatest gift is usually something much deeper  the character and values he passes down through everyday moments.

Father's Day is here again, and I've been reflecting—well, mostly laughing—about one specific dad role that grandpas everywhere have perfected. Long before influencers took over social media, grandpas had cornered the market as the original dad joke influencers. Believe me, as a grandma who's spent decades rolling my eyes lovingly at these jokes, I should know. Take my husband, for example. Grandpa Ira never encountered a joke he couldn't butcher or repeat endlessly, and somehow, it just gets funnier with time (at least, he thinks so!).