That Toilet Paper Shortage

planenut · 5th May 2020, 21:57

NO, this one........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K9-Lz0SbrA

“In December 1973, Johnny Carson made a joke during his opening monologue of The Tonight Show about an upcoming toilet paper shortage. While Carson was not the first to comment on the situation, the talk show host’s joke was blamed for causing a nationwide toilet paper shopping spree:
Carson read a real newspaper clipping about a toilet paper shortage on the air… The day after Carson read the clipping (and made a few jokes) about the “toilet paper shortage” people didn’t realize the story had been about commercial toilet paper and there was a surge of panic buying of consumer-grade toilet paper. This resulted in a the stores selling out of the toilet paper they had on the shelves — which of course reinforced the rumor of a toilet paper shortage … I was living in Brooklyn NY when this happened and I remember it being covered on the TV news including the explanation about the difference between commercial and consumer toilet paper, but that wasn’t enough to stop all the buying and hoarding. I can’t recall exactly when it happened.”

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planenut Regional Secretary Rover 1.8T Tourer Join Date: May 2007 Location: Heathrow Posts: 6,968 Thanks: 1,551 Thanked 2,036 Times in 1,264 Posts	That Toilet Paper Shortage NO, this one........ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K9-Lz0SbrA “In December 1973, Johnny Carson made a joke during his opening monologue of The Tonight Show about an upcoming toilet paper shortage. While Carson was not the first to comment on the situation, the talk show host’s joke was blamed for causing a nationwide toilet paper shopping spree: Carson read a real newspaper clipping about a toilet paper shortage on the air… The day after Carson read the clipping (and made a few jokes) about the “toilet paper shortage” people didn’t realize the story had been about commercial toilet paper and there was a surge of panic buying of consumer-grade toilet paper. This resulted in a the stores selling out of the toilet paper they had on the shelves — which of course reinforced the rumor of a toilet paper shortage … I was living in Brooklyn NY when this happened and I remember it being covered on the TV news including the explanation about the difference between commercial and consumer toilet paper, but that wasn’t enough to stop all the buying and hoarding. I can’t recall exactly when it happened.”