A Prairie Home Companion: October 18, 2003

Café Boeuf
Saturday, October 18, 2003
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GK: ... after a word from the Café Boeuf, with Maurice, your maitre'd.....Bonjour, Maurice----

TK: You're not sure about what?

GK: Never mind. Could you possibly squeeze me in for dinner? Tonight?

TK: How big are you now? How many kilo?

GK: I'm an American, Maurice. We only use kilos to measure stuff that's illegal.

TK: Are you as big as a refrigerator, monsieur?

GK: No, no, no, no.

TK: Can you fit in an ordinary chair?

GK: Yes, of course.

TK: I could squeeze you in from 8 o'clock to 8:25, monsieur?

GK: I'd only get twenty-five minutes to eat?

TK: You could eat fast.

GK: How about later?

TK: You could eat in the bar-----

GK: That's fine.

TK: You don't mind eating out of a trough?

GK: In the bar?

TK: Yes, the barn.

GK: You mean the barn.

TK: Yes, where we used to keep the (FRENCH).

GK: What is that?

TK: What?

GK: The (FRENCH)-----

TK: What about my wife????

GK: The barn.

TK: You say my wife was brought up in a barn, monsieur?

GK: No, no, but I thought you said you'd find me a place in the bar.

TK: That's what I said. The barn. Where we used to keep the pigs and chickens.

GK: That would be the barn.

TK: Precisely.

GK: I thought you said bar.

TK: I did.

GK: Never mind. What's the special tonight?

TK: Tonight, we have the (FRENCH) and we serve that with a lovely (FRENCH) and with just a (FRENCH FOR ITTY BITTY BIT) of the (FRENCH).

GK: It sounds wonderful.

TK: It is (FRENCH SUPERLATIVE).

GK: Sounds wonderful. I'll see you later.

TK: Eight o'clock tomorrow evening in the barn.

GK: I was calling about tonight, Maurice.

TK: Oh. I thought you said tomorrow night.

GK: No, tonight.

TK: Tonight we have nothing.

GK: Nothing?

TK: Nothing. (FRENCH APOLOGY)

GK: Okay. My compliments to the chef. A message from Café Boeuf.