Pigeon's unrequited Ho-Ho craving
My daughter shares this story:
A 60-ish man sits on the Purple Line's Davis Street platform, eating a Ho-Ho.
A white pigeon sits directly at the platform's edge, eagerly eyeing the Ho-Ho.
He turns to my daughter and says with exasperation, "He's trying to get my Ho-Ho. No! You can't have my Ho-Ho."
On the train, they both were preparing to exit at Howard when the guy turns to my daughter and says, "Hey, your shoe's untied. I didn't want you to be falling for me or anything like that."
I saw a pigeon eat a two hotdogs on America's Funniest Videos. It barfed up the second dog and it was funny as hell!
Posted by: cmama | September 14, 2005 at 09:30 AM
man, i love ho-hos.
i haven't had one in forever. you definitely need to eat two, though.
Posted by: jocelyn | September 14, 2005 at 10:47 AM
Ho-Ho's topped-off one of the most culinary eventful days of my life in college. For breakfast I had around a dozen waffles, and four or five donuts. For lunch I had eight or nine sloppy joes. For dinner, I was waiting in line when the dining hall opened, and went back six times for tuna noodle casseroll. In early evening I had a 16" pizza delivered. And around 10pm, I walked down to the 7-11, got a 12-pack of Ho-Hos, and wolfed them all down.
I think I gained my entire "freshman 15" that one day. (I actually went from 165 to 240 my freshman year!) And Ho-Hos were a big part of that. Not Ding-Dongs. It had to be Ho-Hos.
Mmmmmmmm... Ho-Hos.
Posted by: Warren | September 14, 2005 at 01:05 PM
That'r right. Ding Dongs are just wrong.
Posted by: Cheryl | September 14, 2005 at 01:08 PM
Ho-ho's must be eaten in pairs. I took one from my cousin when he was three, and well, I was bit.
Posted by: cmama | September 14, 2005 at 02:11 PM
yeah, ding dongs will do in a pinch, but yeah, screw that. nast. they're hockey pucks.
and it's ho-hos, not little debbie rolls or whatever the hell those are. i didn't even know of the little debbie ouevre until high school, and then i was not pleased. i need hostess, people.
Posted by: jocelyn | September 15, 2005 at 09:48 AM
I think Kevin should start selling t-shirts with quotes from the website.
Shirts with quotes like:
"He's trying to get my Ho-Ho. No! You can't have my Ho-Ho."
"Usually, people don't talk to each other this much."
"Please step back if you can't board this delayed train. Other trains are following immediately behind."
“Ohhhhhhhh, Moira. She’s got purple hair, and pink legs, but you see, and she don’t care, coz she’s Moira. And she’s pretty and cute. And she’s Moira.”
"And dont tell me what kind of ice cream i can get neither"
"I have good taste in music and this stuff is better than Billy Joel."
"I spent 8 months in jail."... "ONLY 8?"
Posted by: Tovi | September 16, 2005 at 04:22 PM
I thought the Ding Dong makers were sued and changed the name to King Dons, which I thought was insanely lame and moronic, even though I was about six years old.
Posted by: Scott | September 19, 2005 at 02:55 PM
I thought the Ding Dong makers were sued and changed the name to King Dons, which I thought was insanely lame and moronic, even though I was about six years old.
Posted by: Scott | September 19, 2005 at 02:56 PM
Ho Hos and Ding Dongs are both made by Hostess, but when they were first introduced, they were actually called King Dons in some parts of the country and Big Wheels in some regions.
Posted by: Warren | September 20, 2005 at 01:04 AM
Tovi, that's a great idea! Kevin, are you listening? There should be a CTA Tattler CafePress store.
Posted by: Meghan | September 20, 2005 at 10:46 AM