Say ‘no’ to cardboard

Some news from the world caught my eye lately. The message was basically this:

  • TV reporter was detained for fabricating story on steamed buns stuffed with cardboard in China
  • A city-wide inspection of bun vendors found no such cases, China Daily said
  • Beijing TV apologized for failing to check the report’s authenticity

The Friday Bun Society has only one opinion about the topic (naturally, as we are the source of Ultimate Truth, and there can be only one truth here): don’t you even think about mixing unbunny materials into Buns. Also, don’t even consider faking an article that places the honor of innocent Buns in jeopardy.

Buns are to be taken seriously (although there’s no need to be too serious when taking a Bun). Breaking the unwritten Law of Bun Honor (written above) yields the most devastating penalty: the Wrath of the Society shall be place upon you. So don’t.

20 Responses to “Say ‘no’ to cardboard”

  1. erkki Says:

    Canadian CTV is reporting the same story here.

    CTV’s article (which is apparently provided by Associated Press) doesn’t mention anything about the cardboard fiasco being a false alarm. Which one should we trust, China Daily or Associated Press? The answer is neither. In this world of lies and disinformation, Friday Bun Society is the only organization you can trust.

    So whenever you’re unsure whether your bun is edible, send it to FBS by email (the whole bun, not just a picture). We will then eat or not eat it for you.

  2. erkki Says:

    On a sidenote, it would be quite intriguing to see The Honor of Innocent Buns in Jeopardy!.

    A: The Honor of Innocent Buns
    Q: What should never be placed in jeopardy?

    A definite thousand-dollar question IMHO.

  3. Tero P Says:

    Note to self: when the next major crisis of life hits me, and I’ll decide to start a Norwegian-black-death-shiny-metallic-cling-clong-brooaaggh-rock band, I shall name it “the Honor of Innocent Buns”.

  4. HenryAsriBizMan Says:

    Hi all! All about me and about my way to great business:
    busness consulting
    Read, ask and tell about your Ideas.

  5. erkki Says:

    Dear Henry (or can I call you Hank?), thank you for writing to us.

    I can assure you that we the Founders of FBS care deeply about busness. Not a single day goes by without us thinking about buses, their popularity, density, expansion and things like that. However, we regret to inform you that we don’t want to get consulted. We already know everything, so it would be pretty pointless for both parties. Besides, consulting hurts.

    I was a bit disturbed about the request to tell you something about The Idea (there is only one, so no need for plural form there, mate). The secrets about The Idea or The Concept are not given away easily. We might tell you something if you decided to join our Society, though. We could even set up a special Circle (how does Busnesslike Cirlce sound?) for an avid entrepreneur like you. So Hank, why don’t you stop consulting for a while and have a bun with us!

  6. Tero P Says:

    Thou should not be talking about the C in such a public manner, my fellow founder. Other than that, I totally agree: all that we want to know about busness, we already do. But what’s this talk about “both parties”? I thought that we live in a multi-party system, not in one that has only two.

  7. TimJohnson Says:

    How would you like to have the key to Google’s Back Door?

    If you want to get all your webpages spidered quickly by Google then click the link below

    traffic generator

  8. Tero P Says:

    we no want spiders into our bunses

  9. erkki Says:

    How enchanting to get such an insightful comment from you, Tim. You threw in quite a challenge by asking us how we would like to have the key to Google’s Back Door. This seems like a matter that must not be answered hastily. Therefore we must contemplate this issue for a while. I hope we can soon give you detailed instructions about our preferred way of obtaining the Key.

    Tero is correct about the spiders, though. Please don’t mention them again.

  10. erkki Says:

    Answer to Tero’s earlier question about “both parties”: I was of course referring to the parties both Henry and us FBS Founders are having.

    Henry seems like a classic party-animal to me. Too much canned meat and too little sleep. It’s pretty apparent that H is having some special festival of his own 24/7.

    It is also a widely known fact that being an FBS Founder means constant celebration. This carnival reaches its culmination every week on Friday (and on other Legitimate Bun-Days) in the form of a Bun. But it’s not that bad on other days either. Having complete first-hand knowledge about busness and things which should not be talked about publicly makes you feel quite jubilant, after all.

  11. Tero P Says:

    At first I thought I’d let Mr. Tim’s suggestion be without any further attention, but now that you’ve pointed out that he, in fact, is nobody less than the enchanter who some call …. Tim, I feel obliged to provide at least one alternative to the question “how would we like to have the key”. My suggestion is more or less like this:

    - The Key shall be aquired from the Depths of Google’s Dungeon by a Pirate Ninja Beaver, specifically trained for this purpose only.
    - The Beaver shall put the Key, once (s)he has gotten it, into a small, yellowish Pouch, made of nothing less than the Shroud of Turin.
    - Once the Beaver has returned from the Dungeon, (s)he shall give the Pouch, still containing the Key, to a blind Norwegian Carpenter, who used to be a worker on an oil drilling rig, but got blinded as a punishment for illegally watching rental videos there.
    - The Carpenter shall put the Pouch, with the Key inside, into a lockable Cube of Marshmellow.
    - Using this Cube, and another lockable container provided by the Society, the parties involved shall then transmit the Key in the plain-old-Alice-and-Bob way.

    Now how does that sound?

  12. erkki Says:

    Tero, your suggestion sounds great. But I guess somewhere out there is an oboe-playing hairless numismatist who would love to play some role in this whole Key Acquisition Process.

    Maybe the numismatist could summon a medium-sized Golem. This Golem would then hand the Cube of Marshmellow to the Norwegian Carpenter.

    Would these minor (but crucial, in my opinion) additions make the whole shebang too complicated?

  13. Tero P Says:

    Gosh, I ran across one of those (numismatists, not Golems) just today, but as I had no idea about their part in the play, I just passed him without a word. Then again, I think that the Plan is not going to fail due to the lack of these characters, as they are very common nowadays, and probably eager to do their part for the Society. (If not, we can persuade them anyway.)

  14. qweryton Says:

    Sorry if my topic is not in the right place, but here is the really good business offer.
    Have a look at this please. (URL was here, removed by a Founder)

  15. Tero P Says:

    Thank You, qweryton, for revealing this information to us. Or to me, rather, as I calmly just removed the links from your post – now I’m the only one in this neighbourhood who knows where *the* really good business offer may be found.

    Pity, though, that my plan is not precisely perfect. After all, searching for the “company dot com” that you were proposing returned 9 (nine) hits from the internets. Now that’s a lot. Hopefully *the* really good business offer is good enough to support this many people.

  16. erkki Says:

    Actually I managed to have a quick glimpse at the URL just before it got removed. Qweryton’s business offer seemed really interesting and I was just embezzling money from our Society’s vaults to get involved in it.

    Sadly I don’t remember the URL anymore and now that it has ceased to be, there’s no way to contact qweryton. Talk about ruining a promising business partnership!

    So, qweryton, if you are reading this, please post another comment with your contact details. Just to ensure you are serious about this, I’m asking you to include a self-written poem with the title “Ode To Buns”. If you manage to convince us, we might be able to do some business together.

  17. Tero P Says:

    You know, lads – just a few more good, information-rich, enlightening comments, and we’ll make such a record in the “number of comments for a post” category here that it will require a post with at least one more comment to break it!

  18. hahahdsdscs Says:

    Comenzaron y se fuerzas logrande), el pelo, la acomodar de mis piernas de fin de cómo soy.
    carlos trejo.
    versos bonitos.
    sesso con asini.
    mujeres cagadas.
    historias de reflexion

    Bye Bye

    (Links removed by FBS)

  19. erkki Says:

    The FBS Founders are naturally fluent in all major languages spoken in our solar system. But just in case there are any readers who don’t know their Spanish, here’s what the above comment means according to Babel Fish:

    Forces began and logrande), the hair, to accommodate it of my legs of aim of how I am Carlos trejo. pretty verses sesso with asini. women cagadas. reflection histories Bye Bye

    Could this be “Ode To Buns” written by our lost business associate-to-be, qweryton? I’m assuming it is and I must say I’m a bit disappointed. I don’t mind using nonsense words like “logrande)” or “sesso with asini” (thanks for those, I’ll have to keep them in mind). But I was a bit disturbed about the part where this Carlos Trejo character speaks of his hair-accommodation plans. I don’t like hair in my buns or odes for them.

    However, what puzzled me the most was the expression used in the first verse where qweryton speaks about The Beginning of Forces. We at the FBS happen to have firsthand knowledge that the Forces have not begun.

    Qweryton, if an untrue, hair-infested poem with some half-ass Spanish words is all you can come up with, you can say “Bye Bye” to our business ventures.

  20. Tero P Says:

    The next time I’m in a restaurant abroad I’m going to order myself one sesso with asini, just to see what I’ll get. I bet it will be a truly logrande experience.

    As a comfort to Qweryton: even if you’d miss the business, there’s always busness as the second alternative. The only difference is that “I” won’t be there.