Looks Good on Paper by Dan Collins for March 23, 2020

Ramen llama ding-dong,

https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/jjapaguri

I’ve often thought that some of the best snarky moments in movie reviews happen because the line occurs to the reviewer and is just too good to throw away even if the reviewer is not fully vested in the opinion expressed. Rex Reed was a master of the bitchy remark that he insisted on using even when it seemed he didn’t really believe what he was writing.

His claim that special lenses were used to “smooth out” the wrinkles on Lucille Ball’s face in the filming of “Yours, Mine, and Ours” is surely true. He took the classic remark that it looked as if Vaseline had been smeared on the lenses… and modified it to say that it looked as she had been photographed through concrete. Too good to go to waste, no? Even if criminally exaggerated.

If he were here today, I’m sure he’d find some way to call this gag llame.

Oh the poor llama.

Seems lame to me.

@Ubintold – agree.

I don’t like hair in my food.

I looked in Target, Walmart, the local grocery store, and an asian grocery store, and they were all sold out of ramen. Stop panic buying people!

A one-l lama is a priest

A two-ll llama is a beast

And I will bet a silk pajama

There isn’t any three-lll lllama

[at least I think that’s how it went… probably Ogden Nash]