Chances are Rick's would have become just another belly-up gin joint whose customers were more faithful to its departing proprietor than to the food.
It can get a little lonely in the building -- entire floors sit empty and if the girls make a wrong turn, they end up in a maze of vacated offices once occupied by another belly-up firm, Netcentives -- but Mrs. Million can barely conceal her glee in having secured a seven-year lease.
Mourning smiled as Russell unleashed another cackling belly laugh.
I can remember Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Elston Howard and Johnny Blanchard running laps — well, maybe one lap — early in spring training, all of them wearing rubber shirts and calling one another Whale Belly as they staggered from foul pole to foul pole.
"She's at college, in the same county as me – far enough away to be in her own digs, but home every weekend, with a big pile of laundry, ready for Sunday lunch and a good row!" Another huge belly laugh.
"People are going to say I'm fucking Satoshi himself soon!" Poney ejects another ripe belly laugh.
In the classroom, one pupil is "studying a stick", another is operating on a toy cow, while another is learning belly dancing.
At the end of the day, we probably wouldn't seek out another breakfast belly-buster, but we enjoyed it while it lasted.
"Winter Belly," another new piece, is conceived as a voiceless scream.
