Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/06/30/every-item-scanned-as-mr-pot.html
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It should make returns interesting.
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I don’t see a problem 
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What’s more perplexing, why is a tire store stocking Mr. Potatoe Head?
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Or maybe, just briefly, the thin fabric of illusion that separates us from reality was drawn back.
#AllIsMrPotatoHead
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Dan, is that you?
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Little known (perhaps) fact: the original Mr. Potato Head came without a potato/body. I distinctly recall making Picasso faces on a hefty russet my mother supplied, long before I heard of Picasso.
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Well, you beat me to it. I was going to make a withering comment about kids today and money-grubbing joy-sucking toy makers blah blah blah…
The WHOLE POINT of a Mr Potato Head kit is that you select your own potato and get sticking.
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Since the company’s formation 100 years ago, they’ve expanded way beyond tires.
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update titem set name = ‘mr. potato head’
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This sounds like it might have been a temporary code change during testing that a developer forgot to remove before deploying to production. Don’t ask how I know things like that happen sometimes.
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I worked in the computer room at a big box home improvement store in the early aughts, and we had per-store control of the receipt footer message so we could make it seem homier. At some point, the receipts said “All your base are belong to us” at the bottom.
Sometimes I would get a call, “It says something weird on the receipt!” I would ask them to read it and repeat it a few times while I feigned ignorance and astonishment, all the while trying not to crack up while they said it. Usually I told them it must be something garbled about base cabinets.
It took a couple of months before it went high enough up the chain of command to where I got a direct order to put a different message there.
A few months later, corporate took away per-store editing, not sure if I had anything to do with it or not.
Also, I posted a pic of one of the receipts to one of the AYBABTU boards, but everyone there just thought it was a not-very-impressive shop job. I couldn’t convince anyone it was real.
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One time i went to a random sports goods store (Dick’s Sporting Goods) to buy tennis balls for our old family dog to play with, i got something on my recipt along the lines of “Mens Balls Ass” and got a good laugh out of it. I presume it was supposed to be Assorted Balls but the chuckle was worth it.
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Initially read this as hornier.
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Toy Maker Legal Dept: “What if a stuck on eye or ear etc. is missed, gets cooked with the potato, and the stuck on bit gets swallowed?”
Toy Maker Design Dept: "Get workin’ now on a tater bod’… stat!!"
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especially as the potato oozes from the wounds.
I love you for this.
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