Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for February 22, 2016
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Transcript:
Potholes Like the Eskimos who supposedly have dozens of words to describe types of snow, drivers have developed a vocabulary for pothole varieties. Here are a few. A rimshot is your common basic tire chewing, wheel mis-aligning pothole. Somewhat worse is a scrapemaker, which often causes spontaneous automotive dis-assemblage. Well, blow the horn. The pit of carkoon type is home to a tentacled monster capable of devouring everything up to a Ford Bronco. In a K Street Kanyon, erosion has revealed past geological ages down to the pre-Cambrian, attracting paleontologist & tour groups.
wellinever almost 9 years ago
I need to invent a pothole filler-open my door over one and squirt in some cemented golf balls and take off.
brooklyn51 almost 9 years ago
Let’s not forget about “the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy” in which the pothole is filled with the cars that came before yours. Woe be to those who chance upon this one too soon.
Sisyphos almost 9 years ago
Chicago Streets & Sanitation (so I heard just the other night on TV news) claims it has already filled over 40,000 potholes this year. And of course the streets remain hopelessly dangerous to anything that dares to run on them (and that’s not counting expressway shootings)….