"Have just washed the car with my son (well, I couldn’t find a sponge)....ba-dum TISH!” is a joke about washing the car that was posted on Twitter on June 12, 2009. “I was washing the car with my son earlier. He didn’t make a very good sponge though” was posted on Twitter by @Sickipedia_Feed on December 6, 2011.
“I cleaned the attic with my wife. Now I can’t get the cobwebs out of her hair” is a similar joke.
Twitter
jazzwerewolf
@jazzwerewolf
have just washed the car with my son (well, I couldn’t find a sponge)....ba-dum TISH!
8:44 AM - 12 Jun 2009
Twitter
Sickipedia_Feed
@Sickipedia_Feed
I was washing the car with my son earlier.
He didn’t make a very good sponge though. http://bit.ly/tiVBvH
11:10 AM - 6 Dec 2011
Reddit—Jokes
Yesterday, I was washing the car with my son.
submitted April 30, 2017 by EilrahcNotneb
He said: ‘dad, can’t you just use a sponge?’
Twitter
Sickipedia 🔵
@SickipediaNet
One day a dad was washing the car with his son.
The son said, “dad, can’t You just use a sponge?
The dad said “no son this builds character.
9:26 AM - 12 May 2017
Reddit—Jokes
One day a dad was washing the car with his son.
submitted May 12, 2017 by [deleted]
The son said, “dad, can’t You just use a sponge?”
The dad said “no son this builds character.”
Twitter
AG
@attractive_geek
I saw this dad washing the car with his son.
Son said “Dad, can’t you just use a sponge?”
9:29 AM - 12 May 2017
Reddit—Jokes
A man is washing the car with his son. The son asks,
submitted June 23, 2017 by Scarlet-Janefox (The date is June 22, 2017 in US time.—ed.)
“Dad, can’t you just use a sponge?”
Twitter
Living Sarcasm
@SarcasmLiving
A man is washing the car with his son. The son asks,
“Dad, can’t you just use a sponge?”
11:33 PM - 22 Jun 2017
Twitter
Darsan
@DarsanParmar32
A man is washing the car with his son. The son asks,
“Dad, can’t you just use a sponge?”
#jokeoftheday #joke #jokes
1:29 AM - 23 Jun 2017
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