Brevity by Dan Thompson for January 31, 2021

Wha! Don’t stop! (Yeah, I know it’s Telegraph format.)

The most important part of the recipe: put the stop at the right time after putting it over the campfire.

Quoth the Marshmallow Man, “Never s’more.”

Not that this one was all that difficult or anything. I try to guess the pun before reading it. On the rare occasion when I actually get one…, well let me put it this way; pardon me while I pat myself on the back.

And that’s how the recipe was invented…

Stop stopping! Stop.

Shouldn’t there be a dash of something.

That S’More recipe has not been approved by the Stay Puft marshmallow man nor by Hank Greenberg. S’less ON side shoots of the 424th Teenage Tree Club is actually a serious hobby. ( Everything can’t be geared toward an infant tree.)

When I was a kid, we made s’mores in the oven—one graham cracker, part of a Hershey bar (they were bigger than the cracker so we had to nibble it down to size) and two marshmallows under the broiler until the chocolate melted and the marshmallow got brown on top. The second graham cracker was added before eating. We called them angels on horseback.

Is that everything? S’more or less.

Well do you want me to use this recipe or not. Make up your mind.

don’t stop

“P.S. Don’t let him ever…stop.”

She’s dictating a memo from the law firm of Marsh, Graham & Hershey.