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Postcards from The Pug Bus

Lifting a satirical leg on pop culture since 2004

Persons in the Ether

Question of the Week

Pancakes or waffles?

Marlene Bishop, 56, retired office birthday-card coordinator

Allegedly flipping opinions from 18 Mutual Block Lane, Boise, ID

Pancakes. They’re simple, dependable, and don’t require specialized equipment or a PhD in batter geometry. Waffles always feel like overachievers, showing off with their little pockets. I just want breakfast, not a grid of expectations.

Russell Givens, 67, former vending machine route efficiency analyst

Allegedly dining from 404 Engagement Court, Dayton, OH

Waffles. They hold more syrup, which is the whole point. Pancakes just let it run off the sides like they’re trying to be healthy. I like a breakfast that knows its purpose and sticks to it.

Sheila Treadwell, 43, freelance neighborhood newsletter fact checker

Allegedly whisking from 9 Repost Terrace, Savannah, GA

Both, depending on the mood. Pancakes for comfort, waffles for commitment. If you make me choose, it means you don’t understand me. Or breakfast. Or the complexities of modern life.

Return the shopping cart scene shows shoppers glaring at a man abandoning his cart just steps from the supermarket cart corral.

The jury had seen enough.

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Book of Daze: Return the Shopping Cart Day

Chip Hilton bookof-daze 2 weeks

The steps between an abandoned shopping cart and its galvanized steel enclosure are the only thing keeping humankind from eating the bark off trees. Hence… Read More

Mind your own business day. A postal worker kicks a vending machine dispensing soup while a determined bystander stares away and refuses to notice.

The soup was none of his business, and he intended to keep it that way.

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Book of Daze: Mind Your Own Business Day

T.J. Eckleburg bookof-daze 2 weeks

Mind Your Own Business Day traces its origins to August 14, 1974, in Ames, Iowa, when town assessor Eugene Vane, 58, who owned fourteen corduroy… Read More

AI disclosure day office cartoon shows workers identifying AI-written emails, deliberate typos, suspicious punctuation, and other supposed signs of AI.

Human-written emails must contain at least one typo, two regrets, and an unnecessary “anyway.”

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Book of Daze: AI Disclosure Day

As told to The Pug Bus 3 weeks

AI Disclosure Day began two years ago in a Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, office park, when a mid-level compliance officer noticed that four consecutive “personal” emails from a… Read More

A cluttered kitchen scene as a bulging junk drawer flies off its rails, nearly toppling a startled homeowner during organize your junk drawer day.

Authorities concluded the junk drawer acted without premeditation.

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Book of Daze: Organize Your Junk Drawer Day

T.J. Eckleburg bookof-daze 2 months

No one knows when Organize Your Junk Drawer Day first appeared on the Pug Bus calendar, though historians suspect it was created by someone who… Read More

A solitary person stands before a fading strip mall with weary storefronts and a nearly empty parking lot, capturing the quiet nostalgia and melancholy of Hauntology.

Where have all the futures gone?

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Book of Daze: Hauntology Day

T.J. Eckleburg bookof-daze 2 months

For reasons no one can explain, Hauntology Day is observed the third Friday of July. It was established in 1987 by a Radio Shack in… Read More

Unread Sunday Newspaper serves as a breakfast placemat beneath eggs and hash browns, its headlines stained with grease after fulfilling its true Sunday purpose.

The news can wait. Those hash browns have deadlines.

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Book of Daze: Unread Sunday Newspaper Day

philmaggitti bookof-daze 3 months

Unread Sunday Newspaper Day commemorates one of our most enduring acts of optimism: buying an enormous Sunday newspaper while sincerely believing there will be time… Read More

Shirt You Never Wear display as family committee studies a long-unused blouse during Foundation for Undeployed Garments observance around dining table.

A final determination was deferred pending further review of the sleeves.

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Book of Daze: Shirt You Never Wear Day

T.J. Eckleburg bookof-daze 3 months

Shirt You Never Wear Day is observed each year by people who own at least one shirt or top they have kept for a decade,… Read More

Leftovers Surprise Day illustration shows a disappointed man opening a container of rice instead of expected pasta while a framed pasta portrait sits nearby.

A moment of silence for the lunch you thought was waiting for you. The rice was innocent, which somehow made it worse.

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Book of Daze: Leftovers Surprise Day

T.J. Eckleburg bookof-daze 3 months

Few disappointments rival the letdown of Leftovers Surprise Day, observed by people who have ever opened the refrigerator expecting to see a righteous snack and… Read More

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