Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for February 22, 2019
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early catalog alert ineffables winter 2000 features objects so vague & insub-stantial they elude precise descrip-tion. tends towards wind-chimey spirituality. does your husband want a dashboard druid serenity shrine? does your wife need a tibetan healing scrunchie? if so we pity you. condimentia! the source for every relish, spread & sauce necessary to create refrigerator gridlock. vast selection of lethally hot pepper sauces with undignified names ("wild ed's hellfire-spittin' bowel rocket sauce"). offers the mayonnaise-of-the-month club for the blander palate. powergrab 2000 do you have a fidgety executive on your list who'd just love a cell-phone that also stores addresses, schedules meetings, checks stocks, tallies golf scores, measures body fat & cholesterol levels, exchanges foreign currency, locates things by geosynchronous satellite, opens cans & moves cheese? look on page 12. stuff 'n' things super 900 page catalog 2000 gifts so useless that once actually given they cease to be, like some un-stable isotope. lawn ornaments, bar knicknacks, mugs & t-shirts with banalities printed on them, things shapes like cats, novelty oven mitts, etc. in short, the only catalog you'll need.
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member over 5 years ago
Where can I get my hands on a Tibetan healing scrunchie?
ellisaana Premium Member over 5 years ago
Except for processing canned food and cheese, that cellphone is woefully behind the times.
kesting over 5 years ago
RT wrote this 7 years before the first iphone came out, but he got it pretty close with the powergrab 2000, pretty funny how he listed most of those things as a joke eg gps etc, but are now standard on most phones.
smorbie the great and beautiful over 5 years ago
It should be Stuff and Thangs
k8zhd over 5 years ago
That PowerGrab 2000 catalog was published about 15 years ahead of schedule, judging from page 12.
Sisyphos over 5 years ago
I want these catalogues! They are so much better than the boring ones I actually get….
DCBakerEsq over 5 years ago
Only 308 shopping days until Christmas!