{"id":97075,"date":"2020-03-15T11:35:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T15:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=97075"},"modified":"2020-03-16T11:57:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T15:57:51","slug":"toilet-paper-mans-best-friend-some-things-never-change-does-this-all-sound-familiar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=97075","title":{"rendered":"\u201cToilet Paper: Man\u2019s Best Friend. Some Things Never Change. Does This All Sound Familiar?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-97076 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/johnny-carson-excerpt-ftr-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/johnny-carson-excerpt-ftr-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/johnny-carson-excerpt-ftr-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/johnny-carson-excerpt-ftr-500x313.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/johnny-carson-excerpt-ftr.jpg 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Johnny Carson<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ninja sends.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How many of us are old enough to remember what happened in 1973 when Johnny Carson announced on The Tonight Show that the United States was experiencing a Toilet Paper Shortage?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5K9-Lz0SbrA\" width=\"480\" height=\"539\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yes, it really happened. However, Ripley\u2019s Believe It Or Not uncovered the REST OF THE STORY.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ripleys.com\/weird-news\/toilet-paper-panic\/\">Ripley&#8217;s Believe It Or Not Link<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>\u201cWhen America Ran Out of Toilet Paper\u201d<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDuring the opening monologue of one of his episodes, Carson read a newspaper clipping about a potential toilet paper shortage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHarold V. Froelich, a Republican congressman at the time, put out a press release warning the public about a possible, and in no way imminent, toilet paper shortage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. may face a serious shortage of toilet paper within a few months\u2026we hope we don\u2019t have to ration toilet tissue\u2026a toilet paper shortage is no laughing matter. It is a problem that will potentially touch every American.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, let\u2019s remember: it was 1973. There seemed to be an exorbitant amount of shortages, oil scares, and economic stressors, so you can\u2019t blame people for being a bit jumpy. But the media totally ran with this statement, blowing it far out of proportion with the omission of the \u201cmaybe\u201d and the \u201cpotential.\u201d Television stations even went as far as to air footage from the Scott Paper Company\u2014one of the ten largest producers\u2014of toilet tissue rolling flying off the production line. This left the shortage warning to be misinterpreted as a guaranteed disappearing act for toilet paper everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ground had already been laid for a true panic amongst consumers; Carson simply ignited the spark for full-blown madness. Millions of Americans across the country flooded their local grocery and convenience stores, totally wiping them clean of all toilet paper. One consumer told The New York Times that, after hearing it on the news, they bought an extra 15 rolls. Another woman asked her party guests to arrive with a roll of toilet paper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor a few months, toilet paper continued to be a rare find until\u2014like most short-lived trends\u2014the hype fizzled away.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cRemember all of those words like \u201cpotential\u201d and \u201cpossible\u201d that the media so conveniently omitted in their reports? Even before Carson\u2019s joke on the air, Americans themselves are partially to blame for the self-induced toilet paper trauma. But can you blame them? These people were used to shortages of everything from oil to onions. The true panic stemmed from a blatant rumor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great case study about misinformation in the media. It goes beyond the base level of this bizarre event. There are lessons throughout about how we consume media,\u201d said Brian Gersten, documentary filmmaker covering this particular incident in history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the next time you find yourself staring at that devilish brown tube of cardboard, consider yourself lucky that the next roll lies simply in your linen closet and not in critical supply.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And in the meantime, there are those taking advantage of the toilet paper shortage.<\/p>\n<p>You Be The Judge:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebay.com\/b\/Toilet-Tissue\/179204\/bn_7023226732?_pgn=4\">Ebay Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Heh. We have the best ninjas. Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny Carson Ninja sends. How many of us are old enough to remember what happened in &hellip; <a title=\"\u201cToilet Paper: Man\u2019s Best Friend. Some Things Never Change. Does This All Sound Familiar?\u201d\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=97075\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201cToilet Paper: Man\u2019s Best Friend. Some Things Never Change. Does This All Sound Familiar?\u201d<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,83,87,332,407,460],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-breaking-news","category-general-whackos","category-guest-post","category-humor","category-ninja"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97100,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97075\/revisions\/97100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}