The toothpaste vice
Joel S. Berson
Berson at ATT.NET
Sun Jun 29 14:24:59 UTC 2014
Mr. Boffo, by Joe Martin, Friday, June 27, 2014.
The often-seen slovenly, unaware male character is forcefully
twisting a lever to tighten a clamp, attached to his bathroom sink,
that holds in its jaws a nearly empty tube of toothpaste. His other
hand holds a toothbrush near the top of the tube. He mutters:
"Anyone without a toothpaste vice is just plain throwing money away!"
A common error, I'm sure. But it made me try to visualize just what
mortal sin a man could commit with, or upon, a tube of toothpaste.
Joel
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