Grandad Jokes, Batch #131

Richard Seltzer
3 min readSep 10, 2022
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From the section Nonsensical Science, Philosophy, History, and Religion of the book Grandad Jokes.

575

The older I get

the more things I forget or lose.

Today I lost my mind.

I better check under the bed.

That’s where it was the last time.

576

When I was young,

I believed that change was the one absolute truth.

Now I know it’s bills.

577

He wished he could save a life,

his own,

until he learned how to use it.

578

In the beginning God fixed the stars in the sky.

But what happened before the beginning

to break them?

579

Do the beginnings justify the means?

580

Is The Book of Life justified?

Or is it printed ragged right?

581

In the vast emptiness of time and space

God had an idea.

It wasn’t bright.

Rather, it was heavy and dark.

And the dark mattered.

582

Someone on Twitter asked:

“Do you believe in GOD?”

I replied,

“I wish He/She would change His/Her name.

GOD is too close to GOP.

583

Sometimes the tires

of the economy

need a little inflation.

584

Dark matter matters.

(We just don’t know how much or why).

585

What kind of animal lies the most?

amfibians

586

Satan colluded in the desecreation

of the universe.

He was responsible for dark matter.

587

Humor has been with us since Creation.

And God said, “Let there be light.”

And perhaps the making of mankind

was part of the joke.

588

Origin of the word “parson”

God talks to everyone all the time,

but it is very difficult to know where

one word ends and another begins,

A “parson” is someone who can parse the words of God.

589

Joseph was in a bind.

If he declared that Jesus was the Son of God,

he couldn’t claim him as his own son

for a tax deduction.

590

When he was reborn as a janitor,

he felt like a caste-away.

591

Be well.

Be have.

Be fore.

Simply be

That’s your duty as a human being.

592

The strict Catholic set his phone on roming.

593

If Jesus were not the Son of God,

he might have suffered from

crosstoephobia.

594

To have created the universe

and perhaps an infinite number of universes,

God must be huge.

If we were “one nation under God,”

we’d be crushed.

595

Perhaps Eve

was a figment of Adam’s imagination.

596

Suggested addition to the Book of Proverbs —

Where there’s a will

there’s an oy veh.

597

Without being touched,

the Cheerios started shaking,

then tumbled over

and scattered over the floor.

“What are you doing?” asked the Wheaties.

“Thinking outside the box.”

598

How can we harness hellfire to power generators?

A potentially infinite source of green energy.

599

What is a mindset?

I know about the brain,

but what is the rest of the set?

600

The inventor realized that an important

opportunity had arisen with

the creation of tiny cameras.

All he needed to do was attach one

to his upper lip,

and he would be able to see

what was right under his nose.

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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