Fukobukuro 19: Fools Rush In
- This is a Fukobukuro, an unlucky bag
- That means it’s filled with worthless junk you wouldn’t buy knowingly, and you shouldn’t buy it sight unseen either
- We used to sell the same sort of thing as a “Fukubukuro”, or “lucky bag”, but the contents couldn’t live up to the name
- Before that, we used to sell the same sort of thing as a “BoC” (Bag of Crap) at Woot, but someone else runs that business now
- Long before that, you got your Japanese custom of Fukubukuro dating to the Meiji period, but all we really know about that is what’s on Wikipedia
- ONLY BUY ONE. Multiple orders will be canceled.
- (Or buy zero, if you’re smart.)
- Model: APRFU38
Mediocrebot's Prankstravaganza / Massacre
Turns out the Brussels sprouts were coated in a laxative after all.
This did increase the severity of Theresa’s prank significantly, but it still felt anticlimactic. And now I was trudging through this increasingly Byzantine complex with Frank trying not to dribble liquid feces down his leg and into the wound where his foot was amputated.
I assumed the fever gave him hallucinations. He periodically would stop to ask me about the robot warriors descending upon us. Poor Frank. What a pitiful wretch.
Eventually we made our way to a bathroom and Frank hobbled to the toilet. Despite a lifetime of humiliation, he asked me to turn away while he did his filthy business and I obliged. In that moment something clicked in my circuits - a dull recognition of this scenario.
Before I could turn to warn him, Frank sat on the toilet seat and set off the bang snaps affixed to the underside. These were no ordinary bang snaps. The explosion lifted Frank three feet into the air, and he landed on the now broken toilet with a horrible thud. It was a pretty good prank, I have to say.
Then I realized Frank was dead.