Category: Random

buying lots of toilet paper for fun

One of the regular readers here at Buffet o’ Blog just told me about an idea to do for fun.  He wants to go to Walmart (or as some say, Walmarks) and buy a package of toilet paper (TP).  Then about half an hour later, go buy another package of TP, making sure you go to the same cashier.  Then do it again, and again, and again.  If the cashier asks how your day is going, hold your stomach and say it’s been rough.   When they recognize you and say something, tell them it’s an emergency.

It’s a lot of work for a simple prank for just one person, but the look on that cashier’s face could potentially be… priceless.  Well, probably not, but it could be, and they probably need help in making their day more surreal.

A variation on this is that you could buy a few months supply of toilet paper at one time — picture dozens of family packs of TP.   They will probably give you a quizzical glance at some point, and you could tell them that it’s Mango-Man’s turn to cook supper, and after last time, you can’t be too prepared…  🙂

an after-Christmas snack

I received an e-mail today that taught me some things:

Christmas trees are edible. Many parts of pines, spruces, and firs can be eaten.  The needles are a good source of vitamin C.  Pine nuts, or pine cones, are also a good source of nutrition.

I’m not sure about eating pine cones…

If you have any experience with eating Christmas trees, we’d like to hear about it.   I’ve never heard about such things before…

But I reckon if you have a live Christmas tree and you can stomach it, that would be free food, since you already had the tree anyway…

funny remix of Deck the Halls

Recently I went to a free concert by the Conway Men’s Chorus, and they performed a funny version of Deck the Halls (Fa La La La) where they incorporated various other songs in with it, in a way you wouldn’t expect.  It’s in the video below, starting at 3:55.

Merry Christmas!

when it’s cool to be fat

I watched Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer the other day, which is an awesome show.  It’s part of my Christmas tradition.  I used to feel like a misfit, so I can relate.  Now I’m awesome, just like the show works out for our misfit friends.

One part of the show that always amuses me is Mrs. Claus telling Santa Claus, “Eat! Eat!  Whoever heard of a skinny Santa?”  Now that’s the kind of job I need! Of course Santa has other major responsibilities, like overseeing toy production and delivering toys, but that wouldn’t take up too much time.  The rest of his time is devoted to being fat.

What would you think if part of your job requirement was being overweight?  Could you handle that?

With Santa, it’s cool that he’s fat.  (Yet he’s in good shape, since he has the endurance to travel the world in one night and deliver billions of toys.)  With Santa, people like it that he’s overweight.  Think about the poem “Twas the Night Before Christmas”, where it says:

He had a broad face and a little round belly,
That shook when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly!

He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself!

For most of us, if our belly shakes when we laugh, people look down on that.  But with Santa, it’s cool.

So with all that in mind, I’ve decided I want to be Santa Claus when I grow up.