Grandpa was a great storyteller

Jul 27, 2026 6:17 AM

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Hey, if this gets the kid to love reading, I'm all for it!

4 days ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Remember, if grandpas didn't tell sweeping epic adventures to their grandkids, we wouldn't have Lord of the Rings.

4 days ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

Nah, granddad's got the right idea, that's better than stories to sleep. Kid will remember this fondly for the rest of his life.

4 days ago | Likes 41 Dislikes 0

The actual woke agenda huh?

4 days ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Zongo, you say?

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Peter Falk was such a baller. I miss that man.

4 days ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Plot twist: This is the sequel to The Princess Bride. The grandpa here was the kid from the movie, now telling stories to his own grandchild

4 days ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 1

Another twist: the rodents are even more of unusual size, and the killer has 7 fingers (two extra being middle fingers, three in total)

4 days ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

And everyone is wearing masks, because it's the future.

4 days ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

My younger brother's favorite bedtime story as a young child was Mr. BigDude, a creation of mine, who was an unbelievably huge man who engaged in wildly improbable antics in search of vast quantities of food. In my experience, as long as you get a kid actually into bed and tucked in, they'll go to sleep eventually, even if they laugh they butt off for five minutes over the adventures of a chonky guy trying to break into a movie theater to steal all their popcorn butter.

4 days ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Oh, brother, let me tell you the stories that my dad told me about Machine Gun Bear.

4 days ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

So too the grandpa from Princess Bride

4 days ago | Likes 75 Dislikes 0

Yeah, #1 is literally the grandpa from The Princess Bride and I refuse to think otherwise.

3 days ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Columbo knows how to tell a story!

4 days ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

Grandpa dresses better to read his grandson a story than I do for a job interview.

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4 days ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The comments have a lot of Princess Bride, good. Even a Girl Genius mention--awesome! But there isn't a DROP of Terry Pratchett yet, and this is right up his alley. "The children refused to disbelieve in the monsters because, frankly, they knew damn well the things were there. But she’d found that they could, very firmly, also believe in the poker."

4 days ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

I raised mine that way.
"Monsters are DELICIOUS!!!"
"Monster under the bed?!? GREAT!!! Let's catch 'em and ROAST 'EM!!!"
Sometimes you sleep on their floor to ambush the monsters, but honesty, I only needed to do that once.

3 days ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This sounds like a Heterodyne Story...

Those kids will be excited for weeks.

4 days ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

I had the exact same thought!

4 days ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Discovered a new comic, thank you kind Sir :)

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