As advice, it's fine. The humor comes from the context. He's dumping this mountain of adages on his son, a full-grown man, in lieu of a goodbye. I don't buy th

As advice, it's fine. The humor comes from the context. He's dumping this mountain of adages on his son, a full-grown man, in lieu of a goodbye. I don't buy the article author's contention that these are "dad jokes" or that Polonius is self-aware. He may be the best parent in the play (a low bar), but he's still a deliberately comic figure.