Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Bubble Yum Armageddon.

Darcy said... Hi. I buy canned peppers.

Helter Skelter: It's Coming Down Fast.

When the Sirens Whistle and the Shrill Whistles Call, I Ask: What is In Your Shelter?

Insert: All the Shoelaces of Civilization Have Come Untied.

You Have a Year to Wait Out the Radiation: Chocolate-Covered Pretzels? Canned Spam? Paperback Novels? Have you Prepared?

What Did You Bring Into the Shelter? What Do You Wish You Had Brought Inside for a Mole's Year?




36 comments:

chickelit said...

What Did You Bring Into the Shelter?

Potassium iodide

I Have Misplaced My Pants said...

Books, Milk Duds and Diet Coke.



betamax3001 said...

RE: "Books, Milk Duds and Diet Coke."

One: Milk Duds Would Require My Dentist in the Shelter Because They Manage To Pull Out Every Filling.

Two: Name the Books. Books You Have Read and Want to Revisit, Or Books You Haven't Read and the Dice Now Roll?

I Have Misplaced My Pants said...

I'll come back to that in the morning. The Long Ships is calling my name. And I have to put away the Milk Duds for tonight because so far they haven't pulled off my temporary crown and it wouldn't do to tempt fate.

betamax3001 said...

Re: "Potassium iodide"

"My girlfriend's got Sodium Laureth --
Sulf --
Sodium Laureth Sulfate hair"

bagoh20 said...

Water, sugar, flour, yeast, wine, lots of wine, A full Ipod, batteries, antibiotics, Neosporin, and Marlee Matlin

chickelit said...

Sodium Laureth Sulfate

Laureth made me do a double take. I'd never heard that before. It's a condensation of lauryl ethyl.

"yl" is a common chemical suffix and part time infix or interfix.

chickelit said...

Most men 50 and older have pumped ethyl. Unless they're from a big city and don't drive.

chickelit said...

Seriously, a wind-up radio with a USB port is a handy thing to have around in case the power goes out. Many waited in long lines in NYC to get a charge for their iPhones.

Here's the one I bought last year. It's available through Lem's Magic Portal.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Lol

bagoh20 said...

" Lem's Magic Portal?"

Homey don't play dat.

Chennaul said...

bagoh20 said...
" Lem's Magic Portal?"

Homey don't play dat.

*********

omg--

dying.

Was drinking water--almost gave myself a reverse sinus rinse.

Chennaul said...

I guess that also would have to be my answer-


water.

Chennaul said...

Na--make that coconut water.

JAL said...

What Did You Bring Into the Shelter?

Potassium iodide

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Can you get that?

Something I had on my Amazon widh list for water purification is no longer available because *some people* use it to make meth. Or something evil.

So the guy can't sell it (the water purifier) anymore.

rhhardin said...

The cartoon is guy stranded on desert island and a cat being dropped to him by rescuers.

edutcher said...

Luckily, Twinkies are back on the shelves.

AllenS said...

For the record, I only buy free range peppers.

Meade said...

I'd stock up with bottles and bottles of homeopathic water and new age incense just to cause shelter crashers like Crack to self-select to someone else's hole in the ground. Peace.

Cody Jarrett said...

edutcher said...

Luckily, Twinkies are back on the shelves.



Twinkies only have a shelf life of about 25 days.

Darcy said...

Wine. Chocolate. Books.

edutcher said...

CEO-MMP said...

Luckily, Twinkies are back on the shelves.


Twinkies only have a shelf life of about 25 days.


You sure?

I thought they were the perfect survival food for nucular winter.

Ignorance is Bliss said...

Daryl's crossbow.

Not so much for the time in the shelter, but for when we venture out. Very useful to be able to re-use your ammo.

Ignorance is Bliss said...

Luckily, Twinkies are back on the shelves.

Where? I haven't seen them here. I don't much care about the Twinkies, but I'm missing those Funny Bones.

Cody Jarrett said...

Look it up, ed.

I'm not sure what the quality of the new Hostess is going to be. I read one story where they were cutting costs as much as possible, using the nastiest ingredients possible. Not that the old Hostess was all that great.

Anonymous said...

Smoked Hungarian sausage, nice big ones.

ndspinelli said...

AllenS is consistently succinctly funny. I love his sardonic ways.

sakredkow said...

Twinkies only have a shelf life of about 25 days.

You sure?

I thought they were the perfect survival food for nucular winter.


Yeah, as Jay Leno said about the expiration date on Wonder bread, it says "Hey, pal, you should live so long."

AllenS said...

I'm here to please, Nick.

Cody Jarrett said...

The new Hostess Brands, which bought the rights and recipe to make Twinkies and other Hostess snacks out of bankruptcy court earlier this year, says that when Twinkies return they'll have a 45-day shelf life. That's significantly longer than the 26-day shelf life they previously had.

http://money.cnn.com/2013/07/09/news/companies/twinkies-shelf-life/index.html

Ignorance is Bliss said...

Okay, I checked the local Wal-Mart over lunch, and I see that they do have Twinkies, and the other Hostess branded stuff. However, they don't have the Drake's branded products, including Funny Bones.

The Drake's brands were bought by a different company, and are expected to be back on the shelves late summer/early fall.

So Armageddon will need to be postponed until after that date.

Ignorance is Bliss said...

Inga said...

Smoked Hungarian sausage, nice big ones.

I'm half Hungarian, but I'm married, so my sausage is not available for smoking.

Sorin said...

20 pounds of cheese,40 yards of wire, eight clothespins, 16 #10
envelopes, 2 rolls of duct tape and a gallon of gorilla glue.

Oh,I forgot, an extra pair of underwear and Philnat safety shoes.

Cody Jarrett said...

I'm half Hungarian, but I'm married, so my sausage is not available for smoking.

Didn't she say 'nice big ones'?

meaning...nice ones, big ones and, since ones is plural, more than one.

Michael Haz said...

Toilet paper and baby wipes for bartering. I'd have most of your stuff in less than two weeks.

And a corkscrew.

Cody Jarrett said...

Toilet paper and baby wipes for bartering. I'd have most of your stuff in less than two weeks.

And a corkscrew.


Bring a 12 gauge and lots of shells. You'll have their stuff a lot quicker.