Grandad Jokes, Batch #5

Richard Seltzer
3 min readOct 1, 2021
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from the section Nonsensical Science, Philosophy, History and Religion in the book Grandad Jokes

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When the Author-of-All

created the world with words,

he didn’t use present, past, or future.

It was all pretense.

127

How do distant planets sign their love letters?

XO

128

What do aliens drink?

Ale

What do Martians eat?

Martian mallows

What do moon men watch?

Loonie Tunes

What planet won gold at the Olympics?

Jumping Jupiter

129

The promise of the Internet —

joining together people from all over the world —

has been undermined by polarization,

only listening to those who say what you want to hear.

Hence the slogan:

Never click the clique.

130

What’s God’s favorite store?

Create and Barrel.

Why did He create man?

He wanted an audience for his jokes.

131

Slogan for medication —

Dare to live like a god.

Its warning label —

For gods only.

Do not take if you are dead

or plan to be dead.

132

He ran out of gas

after a day at the office

and couldn’t write.

Then he started eating beans,

and he could write for hours.

133

Definition of meditation —

Quietly thinking a why-le.

134

Definition —

Telegnosis,

belief at a distance,

seeing and hearing God without being anywhere near Her,

as through a text, an email, a tweet.

135

In the beginning was the word.

So the impending doom that we now face

is the end of the word.

So it is our duty, as writers, to keep writing

in hopes that we might save the word.

136

Scarier than turning into a vampire or a werewolf is turning into an old person.

I hope one doesn’t bite me…

137

New religion with its own language —

The Church if Emo-ji-sus.

Special offer —

join now,

be reborn later.

138

What’s to fear mate?

If ye dye,

ye just change color.

139

She was a molecular biologist,

but she was completely unprepared for this contingency —

her genes had no pockets.

140

News alert —

God just left Earth.

He doesn’t want to catch the coronavirus.

141

Adam was a confirmed pessimist.

When Eve told him that the sun would rise,

he replied,

“No implausible.”

142

Souls are like socks —

it’s hard to find mates.

143

The news is weighing us down

with one grave matter after another.

We should all move to the moon

where there is far less gravity.

144

The philosophy of robotics —

What Immanuel Kant

automation Kan.

145

What is the nationality

of most experts on coronovirus?

Germ man

146

You can’t take your time

and have it too.

147

Warning —

tell your doctor

if you are dead

or plan to be dead.

148

Theory —

The virus

by leading to virtual presence and virtual meetings

is increasing virtue,

Even reality is becoming virtuous.

149

Don’t worry if you lose your mind.

There are reminders everywhere.

150

The rabbi told Mary, “Man proposes. God disposes.”

Mary looked up to Heaven and shouted,

“Lord that’s not fair!

If you proposed. I’d accept.

We could elope.”

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Richard Seltzer

His recent books include Echoes from the Attic, Grandad Jokes, Lizard of Oz, Shakespeare'sTwin Sister, To Gether Tales. and Parallel Lives, seltzerbooks.com