Toilet Paper Panic of 1973 (GT Mini Fails)
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3.7 • 938 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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A talk show host sparks the The Toilet Paper Panic of 1973.
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| 0:35.4 | The original toilet paper panic. |
| 0:38.2 | I'm Rebecca Leib. |
| 0:39.0 | I'm Jason Horton and this is Ghost Town. Of all the shortages we have there's a gasoline shortage you know what else is |
| 0:59.9 | disappearing from the supermarket shelves? Toilet paper. |
| 1:04.0 | Ah ha ha, you can laugh now. |
| 1:06.0 | There is an acute shortage of toilet paper in the good old United States. We got to quit writing on it. |
| 1:18.0 | But I want to tell you it is serious. I just saw a commercial where I know it's coming |
| 1:27.1 | Where Mrs. Olson comes in with a shopping bag and the housewife says forget the coffee just give me the shopping bag. |
| 1:33.5 | I want to tell you. |
| 1:34.7 | Before the great toilet paper panic of 2020 there was the toilet paper |
| 1:48.3 | panic of 1973. This has happened before? This has happened before. |
| 1:53.0 | Wow. |
| 1:55.0 | I want to learn. |
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