Sometimes the headlines just write themselves, eh?
The CBC, your go-to source for all panda-plop monetization scheme updates, has reported that Thailand’s Chiang Mai zoo is selling sheets of beautiful, handmade keepsake paper composed primarily of panda poop. It’s in great demand as a gift item.
“Saw this and thought of you.” How sweet.
When keepers of the country’s panda couple – Chuang Chuang and Lin Hui – tired of disposing the 25 kilograms of feces daily produced by the duo, Prasertsak Buntragulpoontawee came up with the idea of turning it into notebooks, fans, bookmarks and key chains.
“At first the Chinese were very skeptical,” said the head of Chiang Mai Zoo‘s panda unit…But the multicoloured paper products have proven hot selling-items at the zoo, with the the equivalent of about C$9,350 earned to date helping balance the accounts of panda keeping…
Prasertsak said he was inspired by sa paper, or mulberry leaf paper, a traditional, local product which has proven a highly popular gift item in recent years.
“… in the zoo, when people see real pandas and then their product they’re excited and buy.”
I’ll bet. Does Chuck Berry know about this? How about Mark Oaten? I forsee a radical new idea in super-personalized autobiographies…
But has anyone thought of the most obvious application?
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raincoaster 
somehow that seems all backwards, butt (i could’ve resisted, butt *heh* i didn’t want to) who am i to question success. people will buy anything. i’ve always found that to be an amazing thing.
Indeed. Isn’t there someone in Northern Ontario who sells clocks made out of varnished moose poo? Boy, nothing says “klassing up the trailer park” like a mantel clock made from dried, glossy lumps of dung.
what worried me is that there’s enough color variation to make multicolored panda poo paper
There is or used to be actually a display in the San Diego Zoo that invited visitors to guess which poop nugget was from bamboo, which from bean sprouts, etc, etc. Fun for the whole family!
The Addams family!
Yeah. Even the Mansons had some taste
Yes, Sharon Tate was lovely.
I’d love a home manufacturing kit cause I reckon I could make a fortune with the amount I feel I have to deal with every day (but I’m sure every mum feels like they’re battling a poo production line) What great home-made gifts I could make. And there’s a list of recipients I could name easily – we made this shit and thought of you :-)
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Have you tried their edible panda poo breathmints
there absolutley marvelous………
sir panda poo
Alas, I have a severe allergy to excrement, which is why I’ve never been able to hold down a job in politics.
the problem i have is the grainy chunks in my teeth and the rotten brearth afterwords.
my wife waont have sex withg me because my breath is too bad and the tp gave her
a really nasty rash.
if you know what I mean . its rather embarrasling subject here at palace.
thank
lord panda poo
Well that’s why you have pages, isn’t it? Works for Congress (so to speak).