Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for June 23, 2020
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Transcript:
halloween spooktacular 3 short tales of terror man: eeek house of creeping cottonballs a kindergartner brings home an innocent-seem-ing class project that comes to life, expand-ing uncontrollably until the whole house is a heaving mass of cottonballs, glitter & glue! woman: eeeek cat: please, i'm trying to read. strings the uncanny nap this lady wakes up from a brief nap to find herself in a parallel universe where cats control all the media! garfield is twice as ubiquitous & advertising is done with dangly pieces of string! man 2: eek lower level you are here hell cinnabon parking lot mall of the damned a guy goes to the mall to take ad-vantage of a sale on men's pants. but he gets lost & wanders for days! then he finds a map that says he's in hell! and all the pants on sale are relexed fit wide-wale corduroy in "sphagnum green"!
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member over 4 years ago
“Cottonballs, glitter & glue.” It just rolls off the tongue.
Sisyphos over 4 years ago
Hey, stranded-in-hell Guy, Just grab a Cinnabon or two and relax. You’ll have lots of company soon enough….
TurbosDad over 4 years ago
I had to look up sphagnum to learn a new word I normally would never use, but will now. “Wow, I just sneezed copious amounts of sphagnum!” ’S fun…
gbars70 over 4 years ago
Hey, I’ve been lookin’ for a pair of those!