Grandad Jokes, Batch #92

Richard Seltzer
2 min readJul 5, 2022
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From the section Nonsensical Science, Philosophy, History, and Religion of the book Grandad Jokes.

526

The nun had a dream of Christ.

It was a sleep of faith.

527

Rejoice.

The blend of the world is coming.

528

It’s easier to forget than to forgive.

529

Moses was a Nile-ist.

530

Martian scientists came to Earth

to study human egosystems.

531

No island is just an island,

and no man is just a man.

532

Take charge of your life.

Don’t be a ball

in someone else’s pinball machine.

533

If you have nothing nice to say,

do something nice instead.

534

The statute of liberty never expires.

535

This is the switchboard at the Golden Gates Hotel.

For reception press 1 …

For eternal life press 999,

Sorry. The hold on that line s longer than your remaining life.

Try calling back later.

536

At trial, the meth dealer claimed that his work

was part of his religion —

He was a methodist.

537

Church attendance soared

when a female priest

delivered the Sunday massage.

538

Text messaging was invented in England

around 200 AD

by the Sell Texts.\

539

It’s hard to hold my breath.

It keeps slipping through my fingers.

540

The Web extends not just our memory but also the range of our curiosity.

When we forget and search to fill the gaps, we discover much that that we had never imagined before.

And we no longer need to remember facts, just the paths to them

It’s a blessed time to be old.

541

Business idea —

God Walk:

a park where you take a symbol of whatever you believe in,

a place to meet people of like soul.

542

He coined hundreds of new words,

hoping to create a fifth state of matter —

solid, liquid, gas, plasma,

and neologisma.

543

Eve should have bought Microsoft instead of Apple.

544

Adam hesitated.

This rib of his could become a woman,

and they could have children,

and the children could have children,

and so on,

filling the Earth with people.

The rible effect was daunting.

545

Six days God labored.

And on the seventh,

he filed his taxes.

God doesn’t have to worry about death,

but no one (except billionaires)

can avoid taxes.

546

Alternate names for the seasons —

Sing

Some more

Fallacy

Inter

547

Classic of post-existentialist philosophy —

Being and Nothink.

548

Cleopatra used birth control

and lots of it.

She didn’t want to become a mummy.

549

The mythic catastrophic end

of the online universe

could be called

The Twitlight of the Ods.

550

Imagine the Creation was not a single event,

imagine each and every one of us is self-created,

self-published.

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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