Grandad Jokes, Batch #10

Richard Seltzer
4 min readOct 6, 2021
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from the section Nonsensical Science, Philosophy, History and Religion in the book Grandad Jokes

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The pieces of the cosmic puzzle all fit together

when you realize Darwin created God in His own image.

252

What is it?

It rains.

It pours.

It is very versatile.

But no one knows what it is.

253

At least for the duration,

The Congregational Church should rename itself

The Social-Distancing Church

or God Zoom

254

Don’t worry about tomorrow until tomorrow.

Don’t worry about yesterday until yesterday.

Fortunately, it’s always today,

so you never need to worry.

255

Love the present.

Even when it isn’t Christmas.

256

I’m looking forward to Thinksgiving,

with large portions of food for thought,

and stuffing and gravy,

and no vegetables at all.

257

And God said “Let there be light; and there was light.”

And so low-calorie beer was created.

258

My favorite sin

is sincerity.

259

Someone asked, “How old are you?”

Old enough to know what I want,

but not young enough to get it.

260

Translation correction —

Eve didn’t wear a fig leaf.

She wore a fickle leaf.

261

God trembled when Eve bought a new computer.

It was an Apple

with 4 terabytes.

262

When socks go to the Final Judgment,

they are told, separately,

that their pair didn’t have enough credits

for both to go to Heaven.

One can go to Heaven

and the other will go to Hell.

“So which do you want?” asks St. Peter.

And every one that asks for Heaven

gets Hell.

263

Let’s think positive this Christmas.

Instead of Noel,

let’s celebrate

Yesel.

264

I didn’t work this hard for so long

just to earn

the rest of my life.

265

Like a jigsaw puzzle,

the future of the world

depends on putting the right peaces

in the right places.

266

When he retired he had no more deadlines.

Finally he could focus on lifelines.

267

Variant of the Eden story —

Eve touches the apple

and it turns to gold

and that’s the original sin mankind’s gilt.

268

Title of Carlyle’s satiric novel about Buddhism —

Satori Resartus.

269

The Neanderthal was frustrated.

He couldn’t get into the ancestral archive.

The access code was cave sensitive.

270

I remember when the universe had a key.

271

On the form under “religion”

she checked off “observant.”

She observed the holidays

from a healthy distance.

272

I’ve had several near-life experiences.

They felt great.

273

Descartes revised for the twenty-first century —

I tweet, therefore I am.

274

I could certainly use a time machine.

I need time, lots of time,

and it’s very hard to make it by hand.

When was the last time you saw handmade time?

275

For exercise

he took his pet

peeve for a walk every day.

276

Ponds are deep thinkers,

always reflecting.

277

Light is the shadow cast by darkness.

278

Remember it is easier

to day

than

to morrow.

Do you even know how to morrow?

279

I look forward to the time

when instead of May

the month will be known as

Can.

280

After the Sunday sermon

he became a

bored again Christian.

281

Apple bought God.

they are rebranding Him

and marketing Him

as the iM.

282

Theory of authorship —

A book by any other man

would not be the same.

283

The coach picked Time as his quarterback,

because no matter what the defense does,

Time always passes.

284

God would have made everything perfect.

but He was out of time.

285

In the Universe Awards

God got an honorable dimension

for Time.

286

After the Stone Age

and the Bronze Age,

came the Ironic Age.

287

Never regret anything you do.

Just gret.

Once is enough.

288

If your consciousness is hungry, order a sub,

for a healthy subconscious.

289

The problems with the publishing industry

begin with the vocabulary.

Authors must submit.

290

He kept bouncing from one writing project to another

and never getting to the end of anything,

until he went to finishing school.

291

The robot wanted someone to buy him,

so he’d be souled.

292

Better to be an outcast

than a cast of aspersions.

293

Writing a novel is as easy as

wanna

two

three.

294

Do everything you can to boost the value of your soul

so you can get top price

when you sell it to the devil.

295

The monk prayed “Amen”

but God misunderstood

and gave him almonds.

296

Clearly, parrots are evolutionary winners.

Because of their camouflage

no one would ever notice them.

297

Nirvana or

nerveana —

that is the question.

298

The life story you write

detailing what you hope to do

before you’ve done it

is your Ought-to Biography.

299

The third commandment —

Love thyself.

300

I thing I can

I thing I can

I thing

therefore I can.

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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