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For Sale: Entirety Of Moby Dick Typed On Toilet Paper

January 26, 2012 / auction, ebay, for sale, i wipe my ass with the classics you peons!, it's on ebaaaaaaaaay, look out folks because bidding is gonna go through the roof on this one!, novel, toilet paper, tp, what's the word on typewriter ink giving you butt cancer?, yeah you did

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eBay seller the_heppcat is selling the six rolls of TP he used to painstakingly hand-typed the entirety of Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Huh? Yes for real, people are f***ing weird (links to the tampon Mona Lisa to prove my point).

My friend and I once joked that toilet paper should have instructions printed on them for certain people.


One day, the conversation grew from there and turned into a wager that i couldn't (or wouldn't) be able to type out a novel on toilet paper.

Yes, we did have some time on our hands but, as you can see from the photos, I won the bet.

I've kept this mod oddity in a box in a cool, dry place for the last 10 years
and have only broken it out to prove to doubters that I actually did it.

I'm not sure what's up with the skinny roll but my guess is somebody edited a few chapters if you know what I mean. No? You don't know what I mean? Jesus, I'm talking about wiping -- you should really try it sometime.

Hit the jump for some closeups and a link to the eBay auction (bidding starts at $200 but there's a reserve).

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eBay Auction
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Moby Dick toilet paper goes up for auction on eBay for a whopping £650 [metro]

Thanks to Giant Woman / Sarah and zane, who only write on TP with what nature intended: scented magic markers.

There are Comments

  • Moby Dick finally takes its rightful place in the anals (pun intended) of history.

  • Geigh

    Moby Dick is a great book. I'd feel terrible wiping my ass with it.

  • That's nothing, I heard GW wrote the entire The Hobbit using nothing but his poo

  • Omar Cortex

    Do Twilight!

  • what classics are coming up next?  What about news?  There are some blogs I could recommend you "print".

  • THIS BELONGS IN A MUSEUM!  (an art museum, but still)

  • atmathm

    Don't put it on display in the bathroom or the glass case is getting broken in an emergency.

  • Who shits in a glass case?

  • Geigh

    I think you just came up with their next project.

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