Two-Ply Puns

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See if you can find the many puns embedded in the following Washington Post headline, on environmentalists’ challenge to toilet paper:

“Environmentalists Seek to Wipe Out Plush Toilet Paper: Soft Toilet Paper’s Hard on the Earth, But Will We Sit for the Alternative?”

Yowza. Talk about getting…cheeky.

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Megan Garber is an assistant editor at the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University. She was formerly a CJR staff writer.