Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for February 14, 2024

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    jmworacle  3 months ago

    One can never over-prepare when it comes to toilet paper.

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    Ratkin  3 months ago

    Over-papered at least.

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    Yakety Sax  3 months ago

    Hoarders!

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    sirbadger  3 months ago

    Over prepared or under wiped.

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    rekam Premium Member 3 months ago

    I wonder how many people out there are in the same situation.

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    angelolady Premium Member 3 months ago

    The panic buying of toilet paper made me feel vaguely embarrassed for the whole country.

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    mischugenah  3 months ago

    It’s not like toilet paper goes bad.

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    cracker65  3 months ago

    So they are the ones that caused the shortage

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    Ubintold  3 months ago

    Still beats using old Sears catalogs.

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    danketaz Premium Member 3 months ago

    Next Halloween, mummify the house.

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    charliefarmrhere  3 months ago

    They are the reason that stores ran out, and some shoppers had to do without. Shame, shame!

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    BenGMan  3 months ago

    Be happy.

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    some idiot from R'lyeh Premium Member 3 months ago

    TBF it was an interesting object lesson in crowd psychology.

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    eced52  3 months ago

    I have 24 mega rolls and I have had them for over a year. Started out with 32.

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    iggyman  3 months ago

    I remember the gasoline shortage of the early 1970s, when people hoarded gasoline in cans!

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    Walrus Gumbo Premium Member 3 months ago

    Why is it, that in any crisis, our first concern is our butts!!??

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    markkahler52  3 months ago

    That was an incredible time in history…

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    saylorgirl  3 months ago

    You’re never prepared enough, especially with toilet paper.

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    dlkrueger33  3 months ago

    I JUST used up my last “pandemic” roll about 2 weeks ago! And I wasn’t really hoarding, or so I told myself. Other people were much, much worse. I’ll bet a LOT of people still have their pandemic TP.

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    gsawyer101  3 months ago

    Maybe it needs a “best by” date

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    KageKat  3 months ago

    I can’t remember why we were all convinced we needed to hoard TP back then.

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    StarNut Premium Member 3 months ago

    I would still have some, but my kids all ran out and I shared with them.

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    oxlid1963  3 months ago

    I thought it was ridiculous to stock up on TP. When there were fears of shortages I stocked up on scotch and bourbon. I knew I could find substitutes for TP but not good booze.

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    NeedaChuckle Premium Member 3 months ago

    I had a package of 12 extra large rolls. I bought them by accident before the plague thinking they were paper towels. They lasted a year easy.

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    prrdh  3 months ago

    I wonder what archaeologists of the future are going to think.

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  3 months ago

    A clean butt is a happy butt.

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    DJohnny  3 months ago

    Strange, I thought Darryl and Wanda was well educated people, knowing it wasn’t needed to stock up on?

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    MRC112  3 months ago

    There were so many TikTok videos of people showing off their house packed to the gills with stuff they’d hoarded from Supermarkets – toilet rolls being the major item of course. Made me angry when I saw those as we nearly ran out ourselves once since we’d been reasonable. I heard of one guy that (somehow) managed to have hundreds of toilet rolls at home, When the pandemic ended, he tried to sell them back to the supermarket. They told him to bog off (pardon the pun)

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    ctolson  3 months ago

    Wait until they get to Wanda’s birth control pill stash.

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    Ignatz Premium Member 3 months ago

    The weirdest thing about Toilet Paper Panic is that if you had none at all, you could just step into the shower. No big deal.

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    artegal  3 months ago

    Okay, now I hate them because they are those people.

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    DawnQuinn1  3 months ago

    The point is…there never was a shortage, just fools who bought as many as they could find..“Just in case”. I had a neighbour (Canadian and British spelling) with three small boys come to my house asking if I had extra (I did) …because as a single lady “I must not need much”. I gave her a package of 12 rolls. She never even offered to pay for it so I did not ask her to.

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    dv1093  3 months ago

    That was never a thing with me.

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    DaBump Premium Member 3 months ago

    OH! so YOU’RE the hoarders who made it so hard for me to find TP then! Grrrrrrrr.

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    HOTLOTUS1  3 months ago

    all the people who hoarded when others couldn’t get any

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    Daltongang Premium Member 3 months ago

    The funny thing about the comments today, most of the complainers aren’t really complaining about the Pattersons, they are complaining because they didn’t get to the store first.

    With the price of toilet paper today, one should look into purchasing a Japanese toilet. No need for toilet paper at all and it will pay for itself with the cost savings on toilet paper.

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    BeniHanna6 Premium Member 3 months ago

    OK… So they are one of those IDIOTS.

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    kaycstamper  3 months ago

    Aha! So YOU were the reason for the lack of T-paper on the shelves, you hoarder!

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    ChessPirate  3 months ago

    For Y2K, I bought a supply of two things, Bottled Water and Canned Fruit. As I didn’t use Bottled Water, I gave it all to a lady at work who did…

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    oish  3 months ago

    A recent RBION strip talked about a Michigan High School who built a pyramid out of 27,434 rolls of TP back in 2020 https://www.gocomics.Com/ripleysbelieveitornot/2024/01/27

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    cholomanaba  3 months ago

    for some reason I understand those hoarders… butts are not the main reason, but it has mainly to do with women, and no, they cannot use corn cobs (I wonder what they used before the invention of toilet paper)

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    Sherlock5  3 months ago

    I recall that many years ago, when Johnny Carson was host of the Tonight Show, he made a joke about a toilet paper shortage. After that, many stores reported a run on toilet paper, even though there was no shortage.

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    ira.crank  3 months ago

    Fools! Do what I did and rent a storage unit.

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    IndyW  3 months ago

    Hoarders!!!

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    ElwoodP  3 months ago

    Hang onto it…shortages are just around the corner.

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    wildlandwaters  3 months ago

    nope…can never have too much a that

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    daleandkristen  3 months ago

    I did the same thing. Still, they get used and don’t take up space as they are in an seldom used portion of 3rd floor.

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    [Unnamed Reader - 83d506]  3 months ago

    Ugh, so they were one of the “hoards” who made it hard for folks to find TP!

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    David Huie Green LosersBlameOthers&It'sYOURfault  3 months ago

    Back in 1976 or so we heard about a sugar shortage. My brother and I didn’t use much sugar since he kept bees and had over a gallon of honey at hand, so we laughed about the people who were trying to hoard the sugar. Then we came home from Auburn one weekend to discover sugar on every shelf in the kitchen. We asked our mother why she bought so much and she said because it she was afraid the hoarders were going to get it. They didn’t!!

    Over time that sugar turned….not quite as hard as a brick but close. She kept a hammer in the kitchen to break it up to make tea with.

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    [Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce]  3 months ago

    wITH THREE ACTIVE KIDS IN THE HOUSE AND ONE OF THEM hAMMIE?yOU’RE under-STOCKE!!

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    DarrellCurtis  3 months ago

    With inflation, they are saving tons of money!

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    tammyspeakslife Premium Member 3 months ago

    Costco never ran out. They sent emails out to remind people not to panic. The quality and availability of many items wend down due to supply and demand. That’s one thing that was upsetting about 2020

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    Smeagol  3 months ago

    Probably the only time I was envious of those with a bidet.

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    tammyspeakslife Premium Member 3 months ago

    And the stupid suggestions I found in my messenger inbox. I think the worst was someone saying that to kill covid to blow hot air into your nostrils using a hair dryer!? The funniest meme I saw was someone who, after seeing a mask tip- using a cup from a bra, tried her double D cup which almost covered her entire head.

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    The Quiet One  3 months ago

    You can never be over prepared, says the man who has a cabinet full of cookies, hot tamales and Reeses Peanut butter cups.

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    stewfoot  3 months ago

    Just before the High Hand of Dr. Fouchi came down, we had just installed bidets (cold water only) in all of our toilets. Didn’t even notice that there was a shortage, until we looked at the grocery shelves.

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    alexius23  3 months ago

    During the Covid-19 times I was grocery shopping. I was surprised to see a large pile of TP for sale. There were multiple vibrant signs telling customers only 2 packets per person. I grabbed one multipack & continue my shopping.Time passed & I headed to check out. As I passed the TP area I saw that the once large pile had shrunk by about 75%.As I approached check out I could hear screaming. There was a woman with one cart overflowing with only TP. The clerk, followed by the store manager, explained that this was Corporate policy. That only 2 packages could be purchased. The woman was yelling & cursing vividly. She finally left leaving a stream of dire threats & all of “her” TP not even buying the 2 she could have purchased.The Manager then offered Security to all the customers who felt unsafe, walking to their cars, with their purchases lest crazy lady might try to grab their TP. I declined the offer.

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    Ed The Red Premium Member 3 months ago

    I remember a large sign in my grocery store in 2022: “We will not refund money on TP you purchased in 2020.” I wonder how many hoarders tried to return two-year-old TP before the store had to put up a sign.

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    pbr50138  3 months ago

    We have a HUGE package of TP. And it’s not even the brand we like to use.

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    rayloholdridge  3 months ago

    I recall reading a comment in the paper from someone who asked, “Does Covid cause diarrhea?”

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    Seeker149 Premium Member 3 months ago

    They have 3 small children. I DO NOT believe that stash would last more than a few months.

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