Rubes by Leigh Rubin for March 01, 2021

That’s using your noodle — or his…

EGAD! Vermicelli is what I has for breakfast today!

So that’s why it’s called wormycelli.

A penne for your thoughts.

Are you speaking of the worm or the spaghetti?

It’s OK. It was pasta its expiration date.

Well, considering as “vermicelli” is Italian for “little worms”, what was he expecting it to look like?

He got even with that early bird. The bird thought he found an oyster in the gutter.

Wouldn’t bother me. I would be more impressed with a talking Blue Jay.

The guy got revenge later by ordering birds nest soup.

“Nobody likes me, everybody hates me;

I’m gonna eat some worms…"

A trick usually performed by a ROBin.

You’d think that something called nightcrawlers would be hard to find by breakfast time.

Well it’s not all that early unless they are serving vermicelli for breakfast.

Reminds me of a long time ago when a lab assistant was moving some boxes. One of them had a lot of rubber tubing in it, and I casually told her it looked like a box of worms. It surprised me when she got startled and dropped it on the floor!

Bravo!!!