Hardy-Har-Har….Cordurory Shortage Closes Harvard
Today a site that bills itself as “America’s most twisted news source,” wundurfulwurld.com is mining the ceaseless comedy of Corduroy. And boy it’s a real zinger….
Worldwide supplies of corduroy plummeted today as 54-year old male college professors across the nation embarked on their annual shopping expedition to buy new pants during the run-up to the beginning of the school year.
“This is insane,” remarked Old Navy sales clerk Stephanie Gum, as she chewed furiously on a big wad of her namesake confection.
“I’ve got old guys jamming up my change rooms. They’re freakin’ nuts for corduroy.”
Clothing stores in major cities reported serious corduroy outages and empty display shelves as demand immediately out-stripped supply, and stripped college professors emerged from retail changing rooms wearing only their underpants to make boring, sparsely-attended 45-minute slide show presentations on the crisis while standing behind hastily-erected lecterns in the front of the store.
Corduroy manufacturers, never known for their forward thinking, accustomed as they are to the timelessly un-hip retro appeal of their product, were also caught with their pants down.
Read the story in it’s entirety here, if you dare.