Grandad Jokes, Batch #80

Richard Seltzer
2 min readJun 22, 2022
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From the Never Grow Up section of the book Grandad Jokes.

1576

On a scale of 1 to 10,

she was a 10.

And on a bathroom scale,

she was 150.

1577

They didn’t send their son to a magnet school

because they were afraid that if he got magnetized

he would lose his moral compass.

1578

Omar dreamed of becoming a merchant

and sailing to the Spice Islands

and becoming a thyme traveler.

1579

He wanted his books to be printed on paper,

better yet, to be engraved in stone.

Websites were too ephemeral.

He didn’t want to be seen as effeminate.

1580

The painter preferred gourmet foods

because of his refined palette.

1581

In seventh grade,

she hoped her first period class

would let her know what to expect.

Instead, it was English.

1582

Tom cats are afraid of

fix-it men.

1583

Eat donuts.

Hole food is healthy.

1584

She was a landlady

until she retired

and bought a yacht

and became a sealady.

1585

After the crisis,

they brought in a team of deer for the post-mortem.

They were good at hindsight.

1586

He was so addicted to coffee

that he became a cappuccino monk.

1587

It was a first glass bar,

the bar you went to for your first dink,

before moving on to the next.

1588

He was a true gentleman.

He only drank po-lite beer.

1589

Spiders love

corn on the cobweb.

1590

She was addicted to both coffee and exercise.

So she saved time

by doing pil-lattes.

1591

Theme song of the electric stove —

Ohm, ohm on the range…

1592

He returned to the Los Angeles Airport

whenever he needed to reLAX.

1593

His memory was getting worse with age.

Now he couldn’t even remember what he did tomorrow.

1594

No wonder the menu was exotic.

The chef was an immigrant from Guacomole.

1595

The Christmas present felt trapped,

all wrapped up.

He needed to break out

and think outside the box.

1596

He had his mattress stuffed with laurel leaves

so he could always rest on his laurels.

1597

He wanted to learn to play the piano by ear,

but his ears weren’t long enough.

1598

How to put Spring in your step —

think “Forward March.”

1599

She became a teacher

because she was a classy lady.

1600

If the pen is mightier than the sword,

is a missal stronger than a missle?

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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