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…  🙂

missing post

Someone asked where this week’s caption contest was.  It’s nice that someone noticed there wasn’t one.  🙂  I was on vacation that day, and many of the regular readers were off work that day, too, so that’s what happened.  If you happen to miss it this week, feel free to peruse the archives.  You probably haven’t seen every caption contest here, and even if you have, you may be inspired to write something new for a previous one.

In other words, you’re not getting a caption contest this week.  So sorry, tough luck, deal with it.  🙂  But tune in next Monday, at the regularly scheduled time, and there should be a new one.

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!