Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for May 10, 2020
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Transcript:
let's look at clouds and learn their names stratospecious - gassy blobs of hot humid air that tend to pile up over public buildings & personages of importance. common to d.c. in all weather. clinto in tawdry love nest shocke cocaine binge alien grou sex org denta recor scurrilous - not a very trustworthy cloud! don't lend it much credence! invective - always accompanied by light-ning, stars, typography, skulls, etc. comulus - formed by rapid evaporation of liquidity & unstable solvency. thing.com big bunny-shaped clouds - sure they're cute until they start precipitating on you.
It was a dark and stormy day today where I am, and I got rained on when I did weekly grocery shopping this afternoon. Couldn’t distinguish specific Clouds. Just kept harkening back to Aristophanes, the ancient Greek comic playwright, and his remark about rain: “Zeus pissing through a sieve”….