Grandad Jokes, Batch #63

Richard Seltzer
2 min readMay 27, 2022
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From the Never Grow Up section of the book Grandad Jokes

1126

A king without a subject

is like a sentence without a verb.

1127

Milton got his inspiration from a trip to Vegas,

when he lost a pair of dice.

1128

Texting was invented by a medieval German knight

and perfected by a singing cowboy —

Text Ritter

1129

The would-be comedian

became a developer of electronic sounds.

If he couldn’t write a funny joke,

at least he could make a funny noise.

1130

She told him her life story

and he listened as no one had before.

Her pain went away.

At last she had heard immunity

1131

The competing chefs

had a meating of the minds.

1132

When the midget was depressed,

he remembered,

“Wife is short.”

1133

The actor couldn’t take the stress of live performance.

He went inscene.

1134

For four years we had “breaking news” every day.

Now, finally, we have healing news.

1135

Advertisement from a novelist —

Let me be your bookie.

1136

She was delighted when her parents got her braces.

She wanted to be embraced.

1137

He wasn’t a joiner.

He was a general purpose carpenter.

1138

The would-be author

went to metallurgy school

because she wanted to make her novels riveting.

1139

A snowstorm is an opportunity to learn

the meaning of the universe,

because snowbody knows …

1140

She loved lavender,

heaven scent.

1141

The giraffes lived in the necked city.

1142

The ghost was terrified

when he realized he was in the livingroom.

1143

He tested the future and found it was very bright —

150 IQ.

1144

The sun rose.

And the moon marigolded.

1145

A winning maneuver in a high-stakes pool game

is known as a

bank shot.

1146

When you find an unexpected deposit in your account,

it’s polite to say,

“Bank you very much.”

1147

After nearly a year

of being sequestered

with Santa,

his wife got

claustrophobia.

1148

I don’t have a car.

Don’t have one.

Don’t need one.

Don’t want them.

If someone wanted to give me one and even pay me to take it,

I would refuse.

It feels good to live without such a nuisance.

I can walk.

I am undefeeted.

1149

The room was dim

so he turned on

a dime.

1150

Forever is a very long time,

but five-ever is longer.

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List of Richard’s other jokes, stories, poems and essays.

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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