Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for August 25, 2023

The first one, La Grenouille d’Or, reminds me of the old Peter Cook and Dudley Moore routine “Frog and Peach.” It is about a restaurant that offers only two choices, Frog à la Pêche and (of course) Pêche à la Frog, both disgusting.

P. J. Piehole’s must still be closed for previous violations.

I was stationed on the island Guam in ‘69/70. Fun fact about the Mariana Trench. The island is perched atop one of, if not the tallest mountain on the planet. And it is said that it rests on three fingers, where once there were four supporting the island. Thirty miles long and four to eight miles wide, hope it doesn’t slide off into the trench, someday. It is a beautiful place.

Hilarious!

…..six times swiftly

The standing rib roast from Reef ‘n’ Beef ‘n’ Surf ‘n’ Turf must have been the Fred Flintstone special

There are always cooties in the ball pit.

Nothing is quite like an inappropriate dinner-theatre [a genre, BTW, begun by someone I knew way back when], but Crazy Lucy’s Vespa-riding gangsters are rather charming, as bikers go….