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I gotta tell y’all about the socks

So my dad usually jokes “is it socks?” when he’s opening a present, so this year my siblings and I got him socks for Christmas.

But we didn’t just give him a pack of socks. Oh no. We got a twelve-pair pack of socks and wrapped each pair individually.

But that wasn’t all.

See, our mom really likes fuzzy socks. So I got her two pairs of fuzzy socks, and wrapped each pair separately.

And our Nana got a pair of fuzzy socks.

And our parents gave each of us some socks.

But do you want to know the best one? My Dad’s parents sent him two pairs of socks.

And they sent a pair to our mom.

The very best, though, was at the very end. Our poor father had opened fourteen presents that were socks. And we handed him one last present.

It was a shirt.

[alifareed]

Disclaimer: Get a sense of humor.

[koocoocachoo]

Today I found out

Johnny Carson once caused a near month long toilet paper shortage in the U.S. in December of 1973. In his show, he said, "You know what's disappearing from the supermarket shelves? Toilet paper? There's an acute shortage of toilet paper in the United States." Americans promptly went out and bought up every piece of toilet paper they could find. Supermarkets tried to ration it, but to no avail. By noon the next day, pretty much all the nation's supermarkets were sold out.

After several days of toilet paper shortages due to this hysteria, Carson went on air to try to explain it had been a joke and apologized. But because the shelves were almost always empty of toilet paper at this time, whenever some would come in, people would buy it all and hoard it. This toilet paper shortage lasted a full three weeks.