Grandad Jokes, Batch #53

Richard Seltzer
2 min readMay 14, 2022
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From the Never Grow Up section of the book Grandad Jokes.

876

What’s a good name for a movie about an orgy in a nursing home?

Cialis in Wonderland

877

What do you call friendship among photographers?

Camera-derie

878

What does a Jewish duck say?

honk, honka, honika

879

What should you call adhesive paper with jokes printed on it?

Tickler tape.

880

The would-be Peeping Tom

needed to pass peer view

before getting certified.

881

Where are the life writing courses,

with nude models?

Long prose figure studies.

882

Those suffering from cabin fever

should drink cabinated soft drinks

(made in Boston)

883

He bet his life

and the die was cast.

884

She jogged ten miles before diving into the ocean.

She wanted to swim with endorphins.

885

He stared long and hard at the glass.

Was it half empty or half full?

He stared so long

that he made a glass of himself.

886

The telegrapher was fired

when he was heard swearing,

“Oh dash it all!”

887

When the dog trainer became a miracle worker,

all he had to change was his spelling.

“Heal! Heal!”

888

He became a doctor

hoping to devote his career

to cute care.

889

The warlock

was a son of a witch,

and proud of it.

890

Doctor Seuss —

the cat

and is awarded

custody of the hat.

891

The recovering addict

wrote novels with only male characters.

He was avoiding heroine.

892

A collection of stories by or about insects

is an Ant-thology.

893

My body is too large.

I need to trim down.

But I don’t know how to read it, much less edit it.

If I could just eliminate the adverbs,

I’m sure I could lose 20 lbs.

894

Independence Day greeting —

May the Fourth be with you.

895

If you want to talk to yourself

and you don’t want anyone else to listen in,

use your selfphone.

896

Save the world.

Don’t just recycle.

Do twice as much as that.

Bicycle.

897

Advice to polar bears —

Save the world.

Don’t just recycle.

Icicle.

898

Save the world with daddy jokes —

don’t just recycle,

popsicle.

899

They fell in love at first sight.

And they saw each other every minute of every day.

But they never spoke, and they never touched.

They were doomed, and they knew it.

Because parallel lions never meet.

900

Einstein wasn’t a teetotaler,

but he did strictly limit his drinking.

That’s how he got his name —

just one stein of beer.

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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