Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for April 19, 2021
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Transcript:
halloween spooktacular 3 short tales of terror by richard thompson man: eeek house of creeping cottonballs a kinderfartner 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. string 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! lower level you are here hell cinnabon parking lot man 2: eek 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 relaxed fit wide-wale corduroy in "sphagnum green"!
COMIC STRIP OF TERROR. A fan of funny comic strips finds a new strip and begins to really enjoy the creator. Researching him, he discovers another, even funnier strip by him. Then one day, out of the blue, the reader realizes the creator has been dead the whole time! His humor has been delivered from beyond the grave!