A popular children’s pun about school is:
Q: How do bees get to school?
A: By school buzz!
The children’s joke has been cited in print since at least 1992.
15 June 1992, Indiana (PA) Gazette, “Mighty Funny’s Mini Jokes,” The Mini Page by Betty Debnam, pg. 4, col. 2:
Q: How do bees get to school?
A: By school buzz!
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Kids’ Funniest Jokes
Edited by Sheila Anne Barry
New York, NY: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
1993
Pg. 63:
How do bees get to school?
They wait at the buzz stop.
ETIENNE STOCKLAND, 5
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September 1994, Boys’ Life, “Think & Grin,” pg. 73, col. 3:
Phil: How do bees get to school?
Bill: I’ll bite. How?
Phil: They take the buzz!
—Matt Paranzino, Durham, Conn.
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Over 1500 Fantastic Jokes
By Guy Campbell and Paul Moran
London: Dean
2002
Pg. 11:
How do bees get to school?
By school buzz!
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School Buzz:
Classy and Funny Jokes about School
By Michael Dahl
Minneapolis, MN: Picture Window Books
2003
Pg. 4:
How do bees get to school?
By school buzz.
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696 Silly School Jokes & Riddles
By Joseph Rosenbloom
New York, NY: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
2003
Pg. 15:
How do bees get to school?
By school buzz.
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Renee
5/5/04
(...)
How does a bee get to school?
It takes the school buzz! (Howie, 9)
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11/9/04
(...)
How do bees get to school?
On the school buzz! (Richie, 12)
2 February 2005, Los Angeles (CA) Times, “The Kids’ Reading Room—Jokes and Riddles,” pg. E17:
How did the bee get to school? On a school buzz.
Adrianna, 10
Rio San Gabriel Elementary
Downey
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111 LOL Jokes About School & Wimpy Teachers!:
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By Marcus Stuart
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2015
Pg. ?:
How to bees get to school?
They take the School Buzz of course!
Jocabundus
16 Mar 2016
Fish always travel in schools, but how do bumblebees get there?
On the school buzz!
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