Cough Syrup
So Bubba looks up as the waiter, just as he’s approaching, and Bubba says, “It was that cough syrup I drank all day. I’m not sick, you know, just sometimes you have days when a bottle cough syrup helps you make it through the day.” Complete deadpan delivery.
Pisces waiter. It was funny to watch. He was caught completely unaware, and that line, delivered perfectly by Bubba, just stopped that Pisces right in his tracks. You could see it: everything froze. He mulled over the proposition, probably wondering why this guy (Bubba) was still upright.
“Yeah, Apple Pie, ala mode, with a side of green Nyquil – you know, in a shot glass. So I can pour it over the top.”
It was a late evening, and we dined at Threadgill’s. Been about forever since we’d been in there. So long, in fact, that we didn’t recognize any of the wait staff. Sad times, indeed, when the old hangouts are old hangouts.
“Man, I like doing lines like that, the trick is, you’ve got have a completely deadpan delivery.”
So that’s the secret to success. On the stroll home, he did deliver an even funnier joke about, well, never mind. It was entirely inappropriate on many different levels. But after a long day? I thought it was hilarious.
There’s that tedious project of transferring the domain ASTROWHORE.ORG over to him, plus I’ve just got to get him up on server that’s located in this country.