Grandad Jokes, Batch #77

Richard Seltzer
2 min readJun 19, 2022
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From the Never Grow Up section of the book Grandad Jokes.

1501

The book was in an accident.

The binding broke,

and it never recovered.

1502

The bread felt useless,

just loafing around,

until he realized that he could make a difference,

he could become a hamburger helper.

1503

Time has gone the same place as missing socks.

It went looking for them.

1504

In the words of Admiral Farragut,

“Damn the torpedoes,

and darn the socks.”

1505

The dilapidated house

was a dangerous criminal.

He was completely roofless.

1506

The alcoholic was on the cups of a crisis.

1507

Side effect of staying well hydrated —

a six-day week.

Never thursday.

1508

Upside,

downside,

he couldn’t decide.

Maybe he should drink cider.

1509

The prize for the longest run-on sentence when to a menopausal woman.

She had an unfair advantage —

she never had a period.

1510

I think best when walking or running.

I need to jog my memory.

1511

When you aren’t really present,

I can’t here you.

1512

He so much regretted the terrible paint job

that his house haunted his dreams,

chanting,

“Repaint! Repaint!”

1513

He promised himself

he would write six pages a day.

And he did so, religiously.

Every day he wrote, “Six pages a day.”

But he made no progress on his novel.

1514

Her exotic flowering plant was dying,

so she took it to the orchidontist.

1515

He wanted to be known

for his groundbreaking films.

So he frequented construction sites

and shot groundbreaking ceremonies.

1516

When Sitting Bull retired,

he became a Sioux chef.

1517

I can imagine Heinrich Schliemann

claiming to have found the Pallas of Athena.

1518

What brand benefits from seismic activity?

Quaker Oats.

1519

He kept getting called for icing,

so he gave up his career as

a professional hockey player

and became a pastry chef.

1520

The Christmas sequel to the Iliad begins:

I sing the wreath of Achilles.

1521

The fork and the spoon didn’t belong together.

They should never have married.

They were out of sink.

1522

The elephant didn’t like

any of the novels the hippopotamus wrote.

He was hyper hippo critical.

1523

Procrastination index —

the ratio between

the number of times you think of doing something

and the number of times you do it.

1524

Santa was thinking of opening an office

in Antarctica.

But he didn’t want people to think

that he’s bipolar.

1525

Mozart slept soundly.

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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