Grandad Jokes, Batch #59

Richard Seltzer
2 min readMay 20, 2022
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From the Never Grow Up section of the book Grandad Jokes

1026

Why do we have to dye?

Because authors want to be red.

1027

Slogan of deodorant deniers:

I stink,

therefore I am.

1028

The doctor was a wizard at improving the spirits of cancer patients.

He could say, “Be nine!”

And suddenly the patient would be dressed to the nines.

1029

After the rookie made beginner blunders,

the strip club owner

gave her a dressing down.

1030

With the pub date approaching

the author scheduled a party

at his neighborhood pub.

1031

It took years for the detective to sort it all out,

but eventually he arrived at the sorted truth.

1032

Satan held a first-novel contest.

The applicant needn’t have written the novel yet,

just needed to submit a sinopsis.

The winner would get his or her novel written by a pro

and published with a hybrid deal

that guaranteed it would be a best seller,

at the cost of the author’s soul.

1033

Santa’s twin brother

lives at the South Pole.

They are bipolar.

1034

What famous composer was also a butcher?

Choppin’

1035

“Why did you stop?”

“Just be pause.”

1036

Title for the next Muppet movie —

Kermit and the Green New Deal

1037

The building was a terrible novelist.

He had four stories going at once.

1038

The ghost safecracker

used a spoo-key

1039

He hated walking with her uncle.

whenever anything went wrong,

he would get down on his niece and pray.

1040

Movie about the challenges and danger of surgery —

Thoracic Park.

1041

The movie studio

did a seaquel to Moby Dick

and a desertquel to Lawrence of Arabia.

1042

Where to buy replacement chess pieces —

the pawn shop.

1043

Course descriptions should end with the abbreviation BYOM,

bring your own mind.

1044

Why did the chicken cross his eyes?

His hand was shaky.

He meant to dot them.

1045

She insisted that the dealer remove

the carburetor from her new car.

She had diabetes and

needed to limit her carb intake.

1046

Why did the chicken cross the road?

To lay an egg.

1047

Have you heard the Israeli fairytale about

Goldie Lox and the three bagels.

1048

The laid-off railroad engineer

was extraineous.

1049

After retirement,

the submariner became a successful author.

He had lots of experience

in sub missions.

1050

The crusader refused to wear the uniform,

because he didn’t want to be known as

a cross-dresser.

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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