Close to Home by John McPherson for March 14, 2025

I didn’t think Jim McMahon would ever wear plaid pants.

That sounds like a Ballard Street business.

When you gotta go, you gotta go.

Rest in Peace or Rest Room he’s got you covered!

I bought a bidet.

And COVID proof!

It seems there’s a future in droppings.

DING DING DING DING!

Green Plaid Alert!

Everybody do a shot!

This is from 2009, did John know sump’n about toilet paper hoarding that we didn’t? … or did I miss an opportunity?! ㋡

All must exit & excrete.

Hope he doesn’t take his business for granite.

2 things in life are certain, death and taxes. make that 3 things

Add diapers to the mix and you’ll have a real “going, going, gone” business model.

I spent the first five years of my life in McMahon. It’s completely gone now.

His business is going and going….

He’s there for you at the end.

Both ends covered.

At they’re selling “wholesale” and not “used” items.

Either way,it takes care of the END of times….

I was working B2B sales during the 2008 recession and I actually pitched to a headstone company thinking this very thing, people die regardless of the economy. They told me, oh yeah, people die, they get buried, but the headstone installation is not a necessary thing.

I thought the joke was going to be about rough toilet paper.

Rock and roll. Heyo!

to be fair, what with burials being so expensive, and more people being cremated, headstones aren’t much of a given anymore… but the tp… yeah… especially since Sears and Montgomery Ward catalogs are a thing of the past!

Ha! The bummer store.

To be sure he should also sell cremation urns.

Business is good. He’s on a roll.

I want a headstone made of TP rolls! :)

He could have franchised out during the pandemic.

Rock Paper Scissors , but they are out of scissors.

Rest in peace and rest in room.

It’s a grave and odorous business.

“We’ve got everything you need for getting wiped, and wiped out!”

Well, he isn’t wrong!

Two things in life are certain; death and ..

Inflation?

I’ve heard of gravestones and seen the stones in the cemeteries but I don’t think I’ve ever seen mortuary stones