This list becomes 10x as funny when you picture "Walter" as being Walter Sobchak.

This reminds of the shopping list in this Onion article:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/orgy-a-lo…

hmm, that was a bizzare firefox bug, try this link:
http://tinyurl.com/25dz5ab

It's a fake-fake-fake.

In defense of Seattle's supermarket sweep cred, grocery shopping is indeed a pretty surreal event up here.

For example:
-Cap Hill lesbian couple contemplating a mound of yogurt, something like 6 pallets-worth (we're talking at least 50 cups), eying it carefully. The youngish of the two shrugs and says, "I guess we should lighten the load?" and her partner takes a randomly placed "lite" yogurt and hands it to the cashier. "Okay, we'll take the rest".

-Hipster couple and their 5 bottles of lube proudly squawking about their "wild weekend" and finally admitting it's for a slip and slide

-Woman screaming into her phone that she's bought a sheetcake, "because that's how sad you've made me, I'm going to eat the whole goddamn thing by myself in the dark while touching myself", with TWO sheetcakes and, again, a bottle of lube.

-Old lady buying lots of cat food, cashier says "that for your cat?", "no," she says plainly, "I don't have cats". (though it could be for birds, whatever)

I can see why Walter needs Preparation H.

Also in defense of the Stranger, someone actually did find it in a Walgreens parking lot and thought that it was real until someone else found an identical shopping list in a different location.