The (groan) burgers of Calais

Caught during a Prairie Home Companion re-run on the radio yesterday: a joke set-up for the burgers of Calais (referring to hamburgers), punning on Rodin’s The Burghers of Calais (his extraordinary bronze sculpture). Burghers. The Stanford version of Burghers (in Memorial Court, more or less outside the window of an office I had some years … Continue reading The (groan) burgers of Calais