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May 07, 2008 |
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Light Reading for the Commode?
FOUND by Elyshia Aseltine & Melinda Ward
in The UT library, Austin, Texas
It was strange finding a piece of toilet paper beseeching us to eat more cactus; it was even stranger finding it in a 1972 book on capital punishment.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
Weird, definitely.
Wait, is it the toilet paper that's supposed to choke the politician, or the cactus that you're supposed to wipe your ass with...?
This is some kind of tough toilet paper if it can stand up to a ball point pen.
No room on the toilet wall?
Peyote?
Hahahhahahaa ... he said 'commode'. I haven't heard that word in years.
Funny. All of you.
Ahahahaha!!!! Now this just made my morning!!
Required link to vaguely-related blog:
http://eat.more.cactus.cowblog.fr/
Scroll down if you take the link because it's got some Found-worthy images posted.
@Librarian, after already laughing at the find, the idea of a French Cow Blog just about did me in! Thanks for the laughs!
This is criminal.
Toilet paper that is strong enough to resist the punishment of a ball point pen and then remain viable enough to choke a politician - is not toilet paper I want to use for its originally intended purpose.
CAUTION: Choking people is illegal.
Cheaper European TP certainly will stand up to your common or garden ballpoint...it's rather like wrapping paper. Unless you get the fun Spanish/Italian kind that's basically crepe paper. It's magenta, too.
"Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible, you know." (Euell Gibbons, survivalist, who died of a perforated ulcer, probably from eating more cactus)
So true, it must be European toilet paper. The toilet paper in France (I was there about 15 years ago) reminded me of the wax paper you use to pick up doughnuts and pastries. Maybe it's better now?
Anyhow, I think this finder put this find to the best use possible, because FOUND really does make this world a little better. At least, it makes my work day a little better!
They sell cactus in the supermarket here. If you eat more cactus, you will need more toilet paper.
@Freonz ... you're certainly welcome. We aim to please. (which is why I'm compelled to add that Sanderson, Terrell County, Texas a.k.a. "Cactus Capital of Texas" should be big boosters of the phrase "Eat More Cactus". Maybe it was a native Sandersonian who left this Found in the library book in Austin ... better that than a piece of cactus)
Charmin, are you listening? Here's your new ad campaign.
You can eat cactus, I have some in my refigorator. It says Dona Maria, nopalitos, tender cactus. Kinda looks like green bean string things.
This is fantastic! Let's end the election today by feeding both the toilet paper and the cactus to all three presidential canidates! (yes I know I spelled it wrong, I'm just to tired to look it up).
I'm so sick of "Campaign Coverage" ad nauseam, I could scream!
I agree with Nadine; this piece of TP has been used for it's ultimate best purpose.
The location of the perforations on this peice of toilet paper is very interesting to me. Whenever i write notes on toilet paper I set the paper down vertically, like a scroll. the fact that this paper was written on sideways clearly indicates that the writer was a seriously deranged individual. He probably wrote the note while sitting on the crapper on death row, reading about the history of what was about to be done done to him by our oppressive nigh-authoritarian state and leaving this secret message to "the outside world" in the pages of the book before sending it back to the library.
baby basil, I haven't thought about that Euell Gibbons commercial in ages!
nadine, French toilet paper is better now. It's narrower than U.S. TP and the rolls are smaller, but works just fine. I hope you get to go back to France soon!
i hate to sound uneducated, but do people actually eat cactus? i would like to know this. I like to eat unusual foods, but cactus has never been an option for me.
Hey Clover,
Sure, go to any Mexican grocery store and you can buy it there. You have to scrape off all the needles, but then you can chop it up and cook it like greenbeans. I think it's called "nopales."
Someone up there also mentioned their little jar of napolitos- (cactus) it's sold in the Mexican-food section of the grocery store (where you'd find the salsa, picante, and canned/jarred jalapeons).
I don't know about your grocer, but ours also sells cactus in the produce dept, near the mushrooms and stuff- prickles already removed.
when I was a kid, we used to go up onto the dry, scrabbly foothills and my Mom would find "prickly pear" cactus, and that other, bigger, flatter kind, the name of which I don't recall.
I also don't recall how she prepared them- but probably sliced and sauteed in butter.
How very un-womble of me, but the first thing that popped into my head was a line from Lou Reed's "Rock and Roll Animal"--"Gimme an issue, and I'll give you a tissue. You can..."
And anyone who has been subjected to LR can complete the sentence.
Cactus is OK but I prefer prickly pears. Prickly pear icecream...yumbles.
looks like something george orwell would write.
In response to baby basil in the herb garden: Euell Gibbons died of an elongated aorta, not a perforated ulcer.
Just sayin'...
I guess it wasn't used to "better the world."
If you are truly dedicated you can do all of these things with one piece.... tho you should always wash your hands after handling politicians
I think I love this person.
I will most certainly not eat more cactus.
Why do I find the idea of a starving paper shredder unsettling?