Grandad Jokes, Batch #12

Richard Seltzer
2 min readOct 8, 2021
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From the section Nonsensical Science, Philosophy, History and Religion in the book Grandad Jokes

301

When he married a witch

he learned that

wife is stranger than fiction.

302

The Heavenly Supreme Court

just ruled that God did not have the authority

to create the universe by executive order.

Hence everything must return to chaos.

303

Since it is both energy and matter,

light matters, and

anti-matter matters, and

dark matter matters.

Matter waves

goodbye to

matter dolorosa

on its way to

the Matterhorn.

No matter what.

304

Her books, her life-long friends,

were deteriorating.

The pages were becoming brittle

and would soon turn to dust,

such a human fate —

dust to dust.

She took them off their shelves

and stored them,

then stored them again and again,

until they were completely restored.

305
Advice to the young —

Never stop questioning and challenging,

and you will become why-is.

306

The philosophy of advertising

was first formulated in

The Any Ads of Plotinus.

307

Revising Descartes for the 21st century —

I thank, therefore I am.

308

Vanity

thy name is

cabinet.

309

I woke up with an ear ach,

probably from the way I was lying.

I should know better,

and always tell the truth.

310

In his latest ad campaign

Satan emphasizes the hellth benefits of heat.

311

The philosophers held a coming of age cerebration.

312

What did the elbow

say to the solar plexus?

You have some nerve.

313

Because his children were so important to him,

the philosopher sought the meaning of life

in the pattern of little feet.

314

The pen is mightier than the sword.

But the eraser is mightier than the pen.

315

By nature, the doorbell was a philosopher.

He believed in the ding itself.

316

When sinners learn the ropes,

they pray “Lead me knot into temptation.”

317

The mathematician was sure she could avoid unintended pregnancy.

She used the algorithm method.

318

The herbalist was accused of

killing thyme.

319

Imagine an app that let’s you see yourself as others see you

(instead of mirror image)

and let’s you hear yourself as others hear you.

Then you would have a true self-phone.

320

When they did an MRI of the belly of the Dalai Lama,

they discovered he had inner peas.

321

Literally, dogma is a bitch.

322

When my thing

morphs to

mything.

You become the creator of myths.

323

If your peg doesn’t fit in any of the world’s holes,

try changing the holes.

324

When the policeman pulled him over,

he claimed his preacher gave him

godspeed.

325

I’m too busy to procrastinate today.

I’ll procrastinate tomorrow.

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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