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Cidu Bill on Mar 21st 2008
Well not really convenient when you think about it, and now that I’ve been made to think about it, Ewww!
Filed in Alison Barrows, Bill Bickel, Ewww, Preteena, comic strips, comics, humor, supermodels | 9 responses so far
Jim Mar 21st 2008 at 04:28 pm 1
That’s pretty gross all right…and is it even true? Why eat tissue paper when certain vegetables will fill you up without calories…like celery and lettuce?
Lola Mar 21st 2008 at 04:48 pm 2
Nothing but lettuce will give you the runs (though I think they go in for that too) but my guess is that tissue paper will absorb the stomach acids, stop the rumblings and really give you a full feeling. What a messed up way to live!
John Mar 21st 2008 at 05:51 pm 3
Is the strip’s claim that models eat tissue paper true, or at least something that has been reported?
LostInTarnation Mar 21st 2008 at 08:52 pm 4
I thought the convenience was that since the models were already in the bathroom purging, they could easily grab a handful of toilet paper and nosh on that. But then I got to the recycling thing — eww.
brien Mar 21st 2008 at 09:08 pm 5
I remember a 2nd-grader theorizing that if you ate toilet paper, you’d “wipe” as you “go” and wouldn’t need to take any additional steps.
I wonder if he tried it.
Patrick Mar 21st 2008 at 11:20 pm 6
I’m sorry - but “tissue paper” is the stuff that goes inside a giftbox- around a shirt, for instance. That is completely different from what most of us either call “toilet paper” or “toilet tissue” (and what advertisers call “bathroom tissue”).
So, while I still wouldn’t want to eat it, what exactly is “gross” about eating tissue paper?
Frosted Donut Mar 22nd 2008 at 07:50 pm 7
I was skeptical about the “eating tissue paper” thing, too, but at least one actress (from Dr. Who!) reports that’s exactly what she did (and she read got the idea from reading about somebody else who did it).
From 2006:
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=17853351&method=full&siteid=66633&headline=billie–i-ate-tissue-paper-to-fill-me-up–name_page.html
She also mentions it doesn’t work so well…
Charlene Mar 23rd 2008 at 08:55 am 8
Patrick, not everyone speaks your version of English. Toilet paper is often correctly called tissue paper where I live.
We aren’t all from your part of the world.
Powers Mar 23rd 2008 at 09:07 am 9
Yes, but Alison Barrows is.