# You buy wadded-up paper now!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-buy-wadded-up-paper-now/138754>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 25, 2002, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-buy-wadded-up-paper-now/138754 "2002-11-25T21:16:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-buy-wadded-up-paper-now/138754/1 "2002-11-25T21:16:23Z")

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[http://www.origamiboulder.com/](http://www.origamiboulder.com/)

From the FAQ:

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> Q: Origami boulder? Aren’t you talking about a wadded up piece of paper?
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> A: Yes dumb dumb! I already explain this at beginning. Why you too lazy to read first before you ask obvious question like this? People on Internet not very smart.

Quick! Somebody buy one!

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**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-buy-wadded-up-paper-now/138754/2 "2002-11-25T21:34:58Z")

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Generation Y’s Pet Rock?

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**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-buy-wadded-up-paper-now/138754/3 "2002-11-25T21:39:15Z")

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Chicken make terrible house pet.

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**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-buy-wadded-up-paper-now/138754/4 "2002-11-26T23:07:09Z")

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Some fads are misunderstood. A woman I know went out to buy a Pet Cock. She came back with a small brass valve.

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**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-buy-wadded-up-paper-now/138754/5 "2002-11-26T23:45:50Z")

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I’d like to say that the idea was presented by Matt Groening’s comic strip **Life In Hell** in the Eighties.