Grandad Jokes, Batch #44

Richard Seltzer
Morning Musings Magazine
2 min readMar 11, 2022

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From the Never Grow Up section of the book Grandad Jokes

652

Authors who break grammatical laws

must pay the syn tax.

653

How did the leopard get his spots?

He caught leopardsy.

654

When the author got older

she became

an age-nt.

655

Never serve under a general whose feet are hard of hearing.

Deaf feet is no fun.

656

Suggested ad for liquor store —

Celebrate the fourth with a fifth.

Suggested address —

Fifth Avenue.

657

The judge ruled that her coffee was so bad

that it was grounds for divorce.

658

A playwright’s co-author is

a playmate.

659

Is a Twitter profile written in milk —

a profile lactate?

Is it likely to prevent pregnancy?

660

The American tourist

had a great time with an escort in Venice.

He gave her a generous tip and said, “Grazie.”

She replied “Prego.”

And he said, “Try the morning-after pill.”

661

She fell in love with the gear.

Unfortunately, he was engaged.

662

She was impressed to hear that her Match date

was a broadcaster.

And he was muscular too.

Then he took her to the circus, his place of business,

and she realized what he meant —

throwing women

from one end of the big top to the other.

663

A 10K race is one in which

every participant has

at least 10K Twitter followers.

664

As the dowser said to the hole in the ground,

“Be well.”

665

The author who was a French nobleman

was nicknamed

the Word Count.

666

Slogan for a specialty gym/exercise business —

“Improve thigh self.”

667

What is the slogan of the wine drinkers’ branch of Alcoholics Anonymous?

Wine not.

668

Why wouldn’t the playboy date a violinist?

He wanted his relationships to be no strings attached.

669

Why did the would-be author join the army?

It’s the only profession where

you spend half your time writing —

left write, left write.

670

What’s a good name for a plumber who is an action hero?

Flush Gordon.

671

What should you call a sailing ship with an all-woman crew?

Gal-eon.

672

The young goat was negative

about everything everywhere

until she was arrested

for being a nay-kid in public.

673

Someone who takes both a dog and a cat

to the veterinarian

is a repet customer.

674

Why did the fish go to medical school?

To become a sturgeon.

675

When a town in Turkey had an avalanche,

it destroyed every building but the mosque —

because a rolling stone gathers no mosque.

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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