Grandad Jokes, Batch #16

Richard Seltzer
Morning Musings Magazine
3 min readOct 18, 2021

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From the section “Nonsensical Science, Philosophy, History and Religion” in the book Grandad Jokes

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To spice up your life,

add a pinch of doubt.

402

Each of us has two I’s.

None of us has two You’s.

That’s an imbalance.

403

The song of life has no refrain,

and there is no second verse.

It doesn’t go on and on.

It’s a universe.

(You learn that at the university.)

404

The bible of excretionist philosophy:

Peeing and Nothingness.

405

11th Commandment —

Honor thy world

and treat it with care and respect.

406

What did the washcloth say?

How now brown towel.

407

As an expression of faith in life after death,

they installed a porta potty in the cemetery.

408

God created the world from scratch.

So in the beginning

there was the itch.

409

The rabbi with x-ray vision

was the inventor of rabbiology.

410

Where can I find a round corner?

I hear that everything I want is there.

411

She wanted to teach him how to swim.

But when she took him to the pool He walked on the water.

“Why did you do that?” she asked.

“You have to learn to walk before you can crawl.”

412

He challenged the claim that mankind originated in East Africa,

on the grounds that the theory was leakey.

413

Jesus never meant to stay.

He was just crossing over.

414

As Douglas Adams knew,

it takes forty-tude

to make sense of the universe.

415

As death approached,

the cockroach prayed fervently

that he not be reincarnated as a human.

416

Someone asked what an empath is.

I replied —

The M-path through the woods

is right next to the N-path.

It’s the path less traveled by.

417

Why was the head of government called the PM?

Because he didn’t like to get up before noon.

418

The universe is a one-line poem

without rhyme or reason.

419

People in serious demand

for their skills and brilliance

aren’t just important.

They are exportant.

420

The priest bought a thousand printers,

in hopes he would be Canonized.

421

In chess, find moves that both attack and defend,

that perform two or more functions.

That’s like giving yourself an extra move.

Do similarly when making real world decisions.

That’s like giving yourself more than one life.

422

The scientist was wrong again.

He was often wrong.

But he was making progress.

Each day he was on a different wrong of the ladder.

423

His aim wasn’t truth.

He didn’t believe in absolute truth.

Rather he sought new and suggestive perspectives.

He wanted to climb to new wrongs of the ladder.

424

We all see the world not as it as,

but rather refracted.

We are all in prism.

That is our sentence.

But what is our paragraph?

425

What did God say when he wanted

to seduce a woman?

“Eat, drink, and be Mary.”

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Richard Seltzer
Morning Musings Magazine

His recent books include Echoes from the Attic, Grandad Jokes, Lizard of Oz, Shakespeare'sTwin Sister, To Gether Tales. and Parallel Lives, seltzerbooks.com