But, to the TP shortage, I have one suggestion...
Posted on 09/22/2013 9:48:20 AM PDT by lbryce
Edited on 09/22/2013 10:48:15 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
When you're running low on toilet paper and getting desperate, what do you do?
If you're the Venezuelan government, you take over a toilet paper factory.
On Saturday, Vice President Jorge Arreaza announced the "temporary occupation" of the Paper Manufacturing Company's plant in the state of Aragua. The aim, he explained, is to review the "production, marketing and distribution (of) toilet paper."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
We are from the government and we are here to help you.
“Nothin spells out a nation’s greatness like nationalized butt wipes.”
If it’s like here, they could start with a government agency, NBS - National Butt Swipes. Then they could spend money later to change the name to NIST - National Institute of Sanitary Tissue.
Of course, what that really means is:
We are from the government and we are here to help ourselves.
But, to the TP shortage, I have one suggestion...
“The first sign that you have achieved Communism is when toilet paper becomes a luxury.”
Startlingly true.
It will become much less productive and efficient while under government control
Senor Whipple
everything they nationalized is now less productive and less efficient
You got me on that. I do have a problem with my run on sentences. The learning curve for pithy and succinct is graphed like a 179 degree angle.
You may want to make a submission. I checked and you could win... your word count= 94 (word counter.net)
The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest ... Where “WWW” means “Wretched Writers Welcome”
I wasn’t offended. It was a legitimate query asked in a good-humored, tongue-in-cheek way, more curious than anything else.Thanks for providing the lead to the contest. I’ll check it out out of curiosity but have no intention of entering into the competition.
The government toilet paper will be marketed under a new brand name, “John Wayne Toilet Paper”, because it will be rough, tough, and won’t take sh!t off anybody.
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