Grandad Jokes, Batch #51

Richard Seltzer
2 min readMay 11, 2022
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From the Never Grow Up section of the book Grandad Jokes

826

Why was the bureau accepted as an undergraduate at Yale?

Because he was a smart dresser

827

What’s the favorite musical instrument of fishermen?

Bass-soon

828

In the library, two books had been shelved beside one another for years.

They were in love and very happy.

Then one day someone took one of the books.

The one left behind was devastated.

She couldn’t stop crying, until a friend reminded her,

“Better read than dead.”

829

What do you call an aspiring young cartoonist?

a stripling

830

The new opioid crisis.

Addiction to doxiecuntin.

831

An Irish editor

is a Gaelic galley slave

832

The bull wanted to ride in the back of the train

because that’s where

the cow booze was.

833

He was working too hard,

going too fast,

so he put on the breaks.

834

What is the theme song of

Frosty, star reporter for Snow Flake News?

“Nobody snows the trouble I’ve seen …”

835

As a young boy he practiced pick-up-sticks obsessively,

hoping to one day be known as a pick-up artist

and thereby impress girls.

836

Thumbelina rode

a rhododendron

in a rodeo

at the Rhodes Bowl

and became a Rhodes Scholar.

837

He was in an elevator, surrounded by

beautiful women and a policeman.

The lights went out.

He made a mistake.

He meant to cop a feel.

Instead he felt a cop.

838

Facebook and Twitter are cracking down on false and misleading postings —

no ifs, ands, or bots.

839

The hacker was proud of his bot.

It was an artistic masterpiece

a boticelli.

840

She said, “I’ll call you later,” and hung up.

He called back.

“Who’s this?” she asked.

He replied, “You know me as Mr. Later.”

841

When the Eskimo broke the lease

on his igloo,

he was arrested

for flake rent criminality.

842

Eve was naive.

She thought an adam bomb was a fart.

843

She wanted to lose weight.

So she went to college

hoping to be enlightened.

844

What famous novel was written to

promote car insurance?

Report to Gecko by Kazantzakis.

845

The cheese was an excellent author,

but he didn’t want to win any awards

for fear that he would be grated.

846

Imagine a character, due to the author’s blunders,

is going into shlock.

847

On really hot days

do Good Humor trucks

now sell potsicles?

848

They are having a new bathroom installed,

with a Euro-pee-in toilet.

849

The humerus is the funny bone.

850

He proofed and edited his novel over and over again. It was remarkable.

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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