Grandad Jokes, Batch #74

Richard Seltzer
2 min readJun 15, 2022
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From the Never Grow Up section of Grandad Jokes.

1426

She didn’t watch what she ate

because the more she thought about food

the more she ended up eating.

Besides, rather than diet

she preferred to livet.

1427

The code of honor should never be top secret.

1429

Have you noticed that

the sun is setting earlier every day?

Computer simulation shows

that in two months

the sun will set before it rises.

Get set for that.

(Did that get a rise out of you?)

1430

When she wanted to get in touch

with her dead husband,

she went to Starbucks

and ordered a medium.

1431

Often indigestion is a psychostomatic illness.

1432

In the middle of his set,

the folk singer ran to the restroom three times.

It was a repeed performance.

1433

What does 1:10, 2:10, 3:10

make you think of?

Ten past.

The Ten Past by Shakespeare.

1434

The musician was of sound mind,

but he had trouble with his vision.

He was a touch crazy

but he had good taste.

And all’s well that smells well.

That only makes sense.

1435

What wine is famous for its pottery?

Shardonnay.

1436

When he learned that his 10 AM didn’t show

because he “went to Purchase, New York,”

Musk was impressed rather than annoyed.

He said, “ I didn’t know it was for sale.”

1437

The skunk became a great editor.

He depended on instink.

1438

The janitor moonlighted as a biologist.

He was studying crumb zones.

1439

She got high on dogs.

That was her caninebis.

1440

That was the pot calling the kettle

cannabis.

1441

He didn’t want pot.

He just wanted to marry Juana.

1442

She gave up poetry because

she wanted to live a life without allusions.

1443

Her was the building scooperintendent.

He scooped up after everyone’s pets.

1444

Head in hands, she was obviously upset.

She would have looked a lot better if it was

on her shoulders.

1445

He built highways and bridges,

but he was a curmudgeon,

an uncivil engineer.

1446

The author missed the old-style telephones.

They helped her with dial-log.

1447

The poodle enjoyed having an owner.

It was a leash-urely life.

1448

Suggested title for a book about

digging latrines on the battlefield —

War and Pees.

1449

A hint of literary influence

is an inkling.

1450

Which flower has a urological problem?

pee-onies

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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