200 months ago
today Dr. Jerry Archbibble of the
Hellmouth Municipal Zoo and Exotic Animal Cremator-
ium's night keeper staff was awarded the coveted Pin of
Appreciation by the Hellmouth Town Council in a well-
attended ceremony hosted by the Antlered Animals
Lodge Hall, of which he has been a charter member for
approximately four decades. The award, a small pin
lovingly engraved with the words of the Hellmouth
motto, was in recognition of Dr. Archbibble's work in
designing enclosures for stinky galagos and other
lemuroids, and was presented to him by the Council
President, Mr. Pede Maxwell. This was only the third
awarding of the Pin of Appreciation in the history of
Hellmouth, the first two having been returned by the
Post Office after failing to locate the awardees.
200 months
ago today was the excavation of the
inaugural hole for the first imitation tree in the United
States at Pruner's Imitation Tree Farm. The first spade-
ful of soil was removed by Dr. Jerry Archbibble, the
night stinky galago keeper at the Hellmouth Zoo, and
was preserved for posterity in a glass jar which today
sits on a shelf at the Man and Mammal Museum in
Cheesequake. The original jar was tragically broken by
a careless employee in 1991, but much of the soil was
recovered and was later placed in a jar that was very
similar to its predecessor. That first imitation tree
was
soon followed by others, and that was the beginning
of what would eventually become a booming business,
shipping imitation trees all over the United States.
200 months
ago today durian-flavored ice cream
was introduced at Joe's Pretty Good Cafe at the
suggestion of Dr. Jerry Archbibble of the Hellmouth
Zoo. Even in those days there were a few primates
around Hellmouth, and Joe had just bought the cafe
and really needed the business. That was when things
started to go downhill for Joe. Customers began drift-
ing away, and there was a stain he couldn't get off the
bottom of the coffeepot. He dropped durian ice cream
the following spring and then changed the name of his
establishment to Joe's Not So Bad Cafe, but things
were never quite the same after that
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