Rubes by Leigh Rubin for November 04, 2024

You’re going to need a bigger glass.

he became the 18th president

Story?? How much time do you have?!!!

Ask Scheherazade; I hear she has a few.

Not enough Whiskey ever !

Oh, boy!

He will tells but does you understandeeng Greek?

You might have liked it better if it told the story of Troy.

Is he the one who married his mother? Is that why he’s in a bar drinking?

It’s epic!

Why sure, I’ll tell you the whole story.

My wife, Penny, is expecting me to get home, but she’s used to waiting.

Got about a year? ;-)

No, Ulysses is my cousin, I’m Uselesses, drinking at a bar.

“Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressing gown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him on the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned:

Introibo ad altare Dei"

Fine, be that way. Forget I asked.

It’s kind of a “buddy road trip” story.

Beware of Greeks bearing epics…..

And the colours of the sea

Bind your eyes with trembling mermaids

And you touch the distant beaches

With tales of brave Ulysses

How his naked ears were tortured

By the sirens sweetly singing

For the sparkling waves are calling you

To kiss their white laced lips

Tales of Brave Ulysses, Cream, 1967

this could take a while

You Odyssey his Greek counterpart.

It’s all Greek to me.

Tell you what. I’ll let my friend James Joyce tell you.

closing time’s in 12 hours, so I’ll hafta give you the Cliff’s Notes version…

I hear smoking is big in 2024. Just one of the things which Phileas Fogg came to regret, in this story.

“Well, it’s a bit of an odyssey really.”

I hope he doesn’t take him for Grant.

It’s quite the odd ysey

And the head coach wants no sissies

so he reads to us from something called “Ulysses”

-Allan Sherman