Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for May 13, 2013
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May 16, 2013
Transcript:
potholes like the eskimos who supposedly have dozens of words to describe types of snow, drivers have developed a vocabulary for pothole varieties. here are a few. a "rimshot" is your common basic tire-chewing, wheel-misaligning pothole. somewhat worse is a "scrapmaker," which often causes spontaneous automotive disassemblage. dude: well, blow the horn. the "pit of carkoon" type is home to a tentaacled monster cap-able of devouring everything up to a ford bronco. in a "k street kanyon," erosion has revealed past geological ages down to the pre-cambrian, attracting paleontologists & tour groups.
Ida No over 11 years ago
Tour groups are good, because you can’t always rely on your airbags when you hit the bottom of the “K Street”.
Sisyphos over 11 years ago
I’ve seen and/or experienced most of those on our glorious Chicagoland highways and byways….
vwdualnomand over 11 years ago
potholes. everytime they would patch, the hole would reappear bigger and longer and deeper. so, finally, they would do a complete resurface.
magicwalnut over 11 years ago
…and then, instead of having to go around the pothole, you’d have to circumvent the whole darn construction site…
jack fairbanks over 11 years ago
how ‘bout the dante’s ditch doozie?
jack fairbanks over 11 years ago
the spelunking spine splitter?