Grandad Jokes, Batch #79

Richard Seltzer
2 min readJun 21, 2022
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From the Never Grow Up section of Grandad Jokes.

1551

He put his life on the line

every day.

Zoom is scary.

1552

Homer’s literary agent

moonlighted

as a bard tender.

1553

The anchor bought

military grade shipping tape.

He wanted to make sure the news didn’t break.

1554

He would have sat in the back corner

where the wind didn’t blow.

But he didn’t want to be known as

a draft dodger.

1555

He was sickly until

he became wealthy.

Then he was well healed.

1556

Unfortunately, her teenage son was obedient.

Once she told him, “Never mind.”

And ever after that he never minded her.

1557

Instead of grandparents

he had grumpparents.

1558

She wanted to write a book from the perspective of a hundred-year-old woman.

So she decided to live that long as research.

1559

What do you call it when Lucy takes her clothes off?

a comic strip

What do you call it when Charlie Brown does?

a horror show

1560

Gift suggested for a would-be novelist —

a piggybank

for saving earnings.

1561

How did the taxidermist hold the mallard together?

with duck tape

1562

The Chinese couple was surprised

that their baby was lily white,

until they realized that wo Wongs make a white.

1563

Opposites attract.

She was a supper hero

and he was insupperable.

1564

Opening line of song by Satan —

The hells alive …

1565

The bucket wanted to be treated well.

1566

Everything I need to know

I learned from gramma school.

1567

What is the name of Amazon’s football team?

The Amazon Packers

1568

What is the purpose of cotton in a bill bottle?

You are expected to save it up,

then spin it into thread,

then weave the thread into a bikini,

which you should wear to a ball thrown by Prince Charming.

1569

When Tom Swift studied martial arts,

he learned swiftly and brucely.

1570

Heraclitus was wrong.

You can tune into the same stream

as many times as you want.

1571

What did Lady Macbeth say

after she wrote her autobiography?

“Out, out, damned book!”

1572

The pillow suffered from

acid refluff.

1573

Wishing you a febulous February.

1574

She had no taste,

so she had her kitchen remodeled

as a kitschen.

1575

How to lose 20 pounds in a day without really trying.

Go to a British casino.

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

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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