Someone I met told me about stupidity and the Acme Catalog.
The Acme Catalog is (supposedly) where the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies/and others characters (most notably Wile E. Coyote) get their stuff. It was printed sometime around 2006 and is now pretty much a classic collectors item.
It's a spoof catalog selling the usual anvils, oversized bear traps, gigantic magnets, iron birdseed, ray guns and all sorts of cartoon stuff. Need a quick oversized crate of TNT and a blasting machine? The catalog's got it. How about a huge hole to put on a barn wall? They got it.
The guy told me he had gotten lucky and found a copy on eBay through a Goodwill store for $10. It arrived in his mailbox just before he had to go to a doctor's appointment so he took it with him.
In the doctor's office someone asked what he was reading so he handed it the the man who asked. Little did he know he had handed it to a real idiot who quickly thumbed through it and started babbling how it was against the law to sell ray guns to the public, and TNT without a permit and so on and so forth. Apparently he got all worked up.
He told me that an old woman spoke up and told him it was a spoof catalog and set him straight.
People like that are proof that P.T. Barnum knew what he was talking about.
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