Grandad Jokes, Batch #69

Richard Seltzer
2 min readJun 8, 2022
Buy the book Grandad Jokes at Amazon

From the Never Grow Up section of the book Grandad Jokes

1276

The computer operator on the Titanic

was good at synching.

1277

Clothing was very important to the envelope.

She got addressed often.

1278

He slept soundly.

He talked all night.

1279

In the midst of a record-breaking drought,

on the runway in Madrid, before takeoff,

the passengers were suddenly drenched.

That came as no surprise.

They all knew that

the rain in Spain comes mainly in the plane.

1280

First radio contact from embryo to mother —

“Birth to Houston,

Prepare for landing.”

1281

The kitchen appliance always remembered her mother’s words of wisdom,

“Never a borrower or a blender be.”

1282

He was taken aback

when a ghost joined him on a park bench.

He wasn’t familiar.

1283

The boatman put all his money in river banks.

But after the flood,

he couldn’t find any of the deposits.

1284

That was when Eve learned

the snaked truth.

1285

He always recited poems while he hiked.

That was his walking shtik.

1286

After learning his DNA ancestry,

he switched to a Neanderthal low browser.

1287

Losing his hearing triggered his curiosity.

He had always wondered about life after deaf.

1288

Name for Zoom about recycling —

Trash Talk.

1289

It was a perfect match.

They were both watchers.

She watched carbs,

and he watched the grass grow.

1290

The multi-time surrogate

was procreative.

1291

Their guppy was very egotistical.

So they put her on the bookcase

where she could be shelf fish.

1292

At the beach this summer, beware of Chaws,

an aquatic computer,

with 10 terror bytes capacity.

1293

“Bait and switch,” he complained to the Consumer Protection Agency.

“This isn’t the woman I married.

And I’m not the man she married.

Who stole our real bodies?”

1294

The U-boat captain went mad,

trapped in his sub-conscious.

1295

To get her dreamhouse

instead of a realtor

she went to an imaginetor.

1296

She loved music

so she stayed sing-le.

1297

What annoys me about Santa is his

jollier-than-thou attitude.

1298

Why did she marry the toupee?

Because he was the hair apparent.

1299

When the fortune teller opened a spa, her slogan was

“The medium is the masseuse.”

1300

She put spotlights in every corner of her house,

so whenever and wherever she ate,

it would be light.

Buy the book Grandad Jokes at Amazon

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

--

--

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