Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for December 08, 2016
December 07, 2016
December 09, 2016
Transcript:
restaurant closings the following establishments have been closed for health code violations. ice cream 346 flavors ice cream - several suspicious flavors (spongesqueezins, maybeberry, death by vanilla, thingy & countercop) listed merely to boost the total to 346. lugubrio's since 1904 lugubrio's - grim edifice & decay-ing waitstaff prompted patron complaints of anxiety & depression. also, gaping hole blown through salad bar sneezeguard. mughraibhnaorheach mughraibhnaorheach - undeter-minable ethnicity - scandinavian? gaelic? urdu? plus most dishes on menu contain gravel, silt or pumice. homerule authentic d.c. cuisine homerule authentic d.c. cuisine - there is no such thing, not since they closed down all the "little taverns."
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member over 7 years ago
“Spongesqueezins”. Love that flavor!
pumaman over 7 years ago
I think Mughraeibhnaorheach is probably Welsh.
Malcolm Hall over 7 years ago
Anything that’s got pumice has got to be good.
Pharmakeus Ubik over 7 years ago
Eight-legged genetic engineers are just a generation away!
Sisyphos over 7 years ago
I thought I might really enjoy Lugubrios until you mentioned a salad bar! How sad and gauche. The closing is deserved.
(And, after the first fifty or sixty, I can no longer tell the difference in ice cream flavors anyway….)