Grandad Jokes, Batch #35

Richard Seltzer
Morning Musings Magazine
2 min readJan 3, 2022

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From the section Never Grow Up in the book Grandad Jokes

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If Sleeping Beauty lived today, she wouldn’t need to prick her finger.

She could get her glucose readings the high-tech way.

427

In his will,

he gave instructions

that his autobiography

should be written by

a ghost writer.

429

How should you address a letter to the afterworld?

To tomb it may concern…

430

The jury pondered —

“To defer or not to defer?

To differ or not to differ?”

But their decision didn’t matter

because they were

deaf and indifferent.

431

What do mariners use instead of mouthwash?

Sailing solution.

432

Someone who writes constantly

with little hope of being published

is a perspiring novelist.

433

When the baron retired from government,

he became a masseur —

the famous rubber baron.

434

This novel defied the boundaries of classification

and had a sexually ambiguous main character.

It suffered from both genre-fication

and gender-fication.

435

What can you say of an infantry unit renowned for its speed?

The fleet of feet is fleet of foot.

436

The glove maker advertised —

handsome is

as handsome gloves.

437

She refused to go to the Continent.

She never wanted it to be said that

she was in continent.

You can Depend on that.

438

No diet or exercise plan worked.

So she went to a casino in England,

and lost a hundred pounds in seconds.

439

Why am I here?

What do I expect to gain?

I’m practicing for the next track tweet,

and I hope to lose, not gain,

ten pounds.

440

He got serious about his next novel

and WIP-onized it.

441

The self-improvement author

won big time

and became a best-selfer.

442

Specialty at McDonald’s in Edinburgh —

Big Mac Beth,

double boiled,

served bloody rare,

with lady fingers.

443

What now-extinct beast once fought the forces of darkness?

The light-saber toothed tiger.

444

What animal is a refreshing drink?

The koola bear.

445

Why did the ninjas buy a nunnery?

They needed flying nuns

as ammunition for their nunchucks.

446

What do monks eat while watching the Super Bowl?

Pope corn and humble pie.

447

How do monks get free entry to the Super Bowl?

They use their Hail Mary Pass.

448

Ninjas never laugh.

They nunchuckle.

449

How much wood would a nunchuck chuck

if a nunchuck could chuck wood?

450

He wasn’t a king.

He never had a coronation.

So he insisted on a home birth

so he could see

the crowning of his son.

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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