Grandad Jokes, Batch #135

Richard Seltzer
2 min readSep 23, 2022
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From the section Never Grow Up of the book Grandad Jokes.

1926

He was the ultimate handyman.

He won the Nobel Prize

in furniture assembly.

1927

Synonym for narcissist —

selfie.

1928

The computer was interested in everything.

He had electric taste.

1929

The vegetable went to law school

and became an avocado for green energy.

1930

He wanted a career solving crimes.

So he went to school and became

a defective.

1931

Ichabod Crane woke up

after more than 200 years

in 2022

and found himself in

Sleepy Hollowgram.

1932

He became a radiologist

in hopes he could get a job

a radio announcer.

1933

Santa bought a summer house in Antarctica.

He’s now bipolar.

1934

The donkey became a seamstress

because she was good at hemming and hawing.

1935

Beware of the time monster —

he ate yesterday.

1936

The gynecologist

has a midwife crisis.

1937

Suggested name for a new magazine

competing with The Economist

and targeted at the wealthy —

The Spendthrift.

1938

Prayer of a British sailor —

Now I limey

down to sleep…

1939

When she needed exercise,

she jogged

her memory

and let her nose run.

1940

He went to the dentists’ office

to get his blue tooth fixed.

While he was there

they also took care of his over byte.

1941

What did the bard say

when he finished reciting the Iliad —

“That’s a rhap.”

1942

He began to have his doubts

when he learned that her favorite piece of music

was the Golddigger Variations.

1943

The psychotherapist was an expert

with the hypothetical needle.

1944

When the pandemic was at its worst,

the hospital hired a forest ranger

for tree-age.

1945

She never got around to cleaning up.

She was washywishy.

1946

The coffee table greeted her new owner —

“At your surface.”

1947

Non-binary autograph —

“With love,

to my

grandwhatever.

1948

He always wanted to be an author,

but never got around to it,

until he died.

Then he became a ghost writer.

1949

Fear of visitors is

guestrophobia.

1950

The world may be round,

but the tire is flat.

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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