Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for October 24, 2013
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Transcript:
hometown security the d.c. office of obstacles & eyesores hopes to replace the jersey barriers littering our landscape with something more aesthetically pleasing. but what? everybody loves bollards! we could become the "city of bollards." people: bollards! bollards! bollards! bollards! there are alternatives. man: tangled masses of abandoned grocery carts can provide deterrence and comment on our consumerist society. some are traditionalists - guard: i prefer the ornamental 8-ton reinforced concreted tub filled with pansies, which so intriguingly weds the oppressive to the dainty. driver: yeah, me too. stop do not back up and what of those whom we seek to protect? guy 1: i hear that at the state department everyone gets a vicious guard dog. guy 2: damn. department of nonessential employees
Sisyphos about 11 years ago
This is way too close to the Truth about about Fortress Washington. Bollards? Bollocks!Concrete pansy tubs are sprouting up all over the place; in the small town in Ohio where I worked; in versions in Chicago; they’re everywhere!I once knew someone high in the State Department; he had a wife, but no vicious guard dog, as far as I know.[Note: I spent my college years in D.C.]
Ida No about 11 years ago
We could decorate the city by putting non-essential employees in 8-ton planters with the vicious guard dogs.
PoodleGroomer about 11 years ago
The outer ring is being filled with water and moat monsters.
romart1 about 11 years ago
There’s a gate in the inner ring but none in the outer ring. Are they airlifted in and abandoned?