Grandad Jokes, Batch #64

Richard Seltzer
2 min readMay 28, 2022
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From the Never Grow Up section of the book Grandad Jokes

1151

He applied for a job

not because he needed one

but because he was feeling low

and he wanted to be highered.

1152

She couldn’t decide whether to dance or sing.

So she went dansing.

1153

The author wanted to know

how to make sliced bread

out of tweet.

1154

The author was awestruck

by the vast and beautiful

tweet field.

1155

The forest that had been decimated by loggers

became an author

because she wanted to get her paper back.

1156

A fun way to organize vaccinations —

A square dance.

“Now dosey do your partner!”

1157

Name for a rock percussionist elephant —

Drumbo

1158

Suddenly, the need to write novels

spread through the world like a contagious disease.

It came to be known as

The Great Pendemic.

1159

Paralegals help lawyers.

Paramedics help doctors.

Paragraphs help writers.

1160

She was an author with musical talent.

She could write on her computer

by playing on her keyboard

or on her guitar.

1161

The NASCAR champ

is writing his auto biography.

1162

Does a paramedic

repair parachutes?

1163

Death by words would be prose-ecution.

1164

Togetherness —

We all live in the same uni-worse.

1165

He’s not out of the woods yet,

but he’s stopped eating so he can go faster.

1166

The high-strung woman was very thin.

She explained, “I just can’t weight.”

1167

Words consist of sillyables.

Put together in the write way,

they can achieve the honor

of becoming jokes.

1168

Having computer problems,

he dreamt his mouse

became a rat

and attacked him,

giving him a gigabyte,

of permanent memory.

1169

Theme song for professionals movers —

“Hello, dolly.”

1170

Newly coined word —

“mindpo.”

A mistake in typing not caused by scrambled letters or

by spell check.

Rather you think one word

and type another.

1171

It wasn’t self-serve

and there were no waiters/waitresses.

This restaurant was strictly

secret service.

1172

Suggested novel title —

Cheerios and the Cereal Killer.

1173

They didn’t elect the kangaroo president

because of fears that

he would use his pocket veto.

1174

Diagnosed with uncureable cancer

he confessed to first degree murder

in hopes that he would get a life sentence.

He needed life.

1175

Rather than go to a movie theater,

or watch on a DVD,

I now watch horror movies

screaming.

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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