When barfbags need to barf...
by D.S.
There once was a baggist from Boulder,
Whose collection took up a huge folder.
His wife soon rejected it,
And later ejected it,
So he finally went out and he sold her.
by D.S.
There once was a man from Nantucket
Who had a great urge to up-chuck it.
He searched in the seatback
For a much-needed sick sack
But was forced to throw up in a bucket.
by D.S.
ODE TO PAUL MUNDY
There once was a flyer from Cali
Whose drinking was causing a folly.
His stomach a-whirl,
He needed to hurl,
But the bags had been taken by Paul-y.
by D.S.
ALWAYS READY TO HELP
YOU NEVER KNOW...
ORIGINAL BARFBAG POETRY
David Shomper Mini-Biography
David Shomper was born in Pennsylvania, USA, and moved to Puerto Rico at the tender age of 7 where he lived for 13 years while growing up. After barely scraping by at Carnegie Mellon University (Carnegie Institute of Technology at the time) in Pittsburgh, he began his engineering career which included working with the Gemini astronauts (including Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Gene Cernan) at the McDonnell Aircraft Space Division in St. Louis, working on the launch teams for the Gemini and Apollo space programs at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, for ARAMCO in the desert oil fields of Saudi Arabia, and at the now-defunct Rocky Flats nuclear weapon manufacturing plant in Colorado.
After living and working in Puerto Rico, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Indiana, California, Missouri and Florida, he settled in Colorado in 1970 where he has remained except for 2 years in Saudi Arabia (’80 - ’82) where he (literally) worked overtime to bring petrodollars back to the USA. Due to his success in this effort, he was able to retire at 56 and continues to live in beautiful Boulder, Colorado with his 1st wife and the ashes of their 8th cat. He is proud that has never eaten a Twinkie nor watched an episode of The Brady Bunch and has never once uttered the words “awesome” and “veggies”. He fervently believes that toilet paper should unroll to the front, that the 48-star US flag was the best ever (sorry, Alaska and Hawaii), that baseball uniform pants should end just below the knee, and that passing trains are much less interesting to watch since they eliminated cabooses. And don’t get him started on rap “music” or soccer (sorry, most of the world). He admits he will never understand the lyrics to any Paul Simon song and thinks people who wear baseball caps backwards look stupid. And tennis really needs to revise their goofball scoring system.
He enjoys foreign travel (having visited 51 countries), cycling, cats (sorry, dogs), geocaching, his 2 grandchildren and eating his wife’s fabulous cooking. And Oreos. And pretty much anything remotely involving pie, peanuts, cream cheese and/or bacon (not necessarily in unison).
His most prized possession is his collection of approximately 3,000 airline barfbags which he began stealing in 1980 while living and traveling abroad. It is notable that despite having flown over 860,000 miles in his lifetime, he has only been sick on an airplane once (in 1967) and on that occasion he used a rolled-up Sunday newspaper, not a bag. His 6-month old son found the event quite amusing.
GEEK ENGINEER
Boeing IDs, Kennedy Space Center, 1967-70
ARAMCO IDs, Saudi Arabia, 1980-82
bagophily.com
bagophily.com
bagophily.com
ca. 1980
