Urban gardening in Dingburg

Sunday silliness: today’s Zippy, which tickled my fancy:

The conceit is that you can cultivate inanimate artifacts, especially ones with interesting names: Post-Its, toner cartridges, glue sticks, shrink wrap, kneaded erasers (aka putty rubber), wiggly heads for Eve dolls, AAA batteries, styrofoam packing peanuts — all can be planted and will multiply, given a nice loamy soil (a fertile soil containing clay, sand, and humus) and applications of Gatorade and Jolt Cola.

I have to admit that the idea of harvesting a bumper crop of styrofoam packing peanuts horrifies me.

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