Happy World Toilet Day!

[Dave Monroe]

http://www.worldtoiletday.org/

http://www.worldtoilet.org/wto/index.php/our-works/world-toilet-day

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Toiletship

448; aka Rücksichtslos (German: "inconsiderate" or "ruthless");
Swinemünde to Helgoland, 450; "a wind tunnel's all it is. If tensor
analysis is good enough for turbulence, it ought to be good enough for
history" 451;

joke of flaming toilet paper taken from the book "Flushed With Pride":
One must be frank and admit that not all of Crapper’s developments met
with immediate success. What was called the Trough Closet was, it
would have appeared, a dandy idea for an inexpensive yet efficient
flushing system for rows of toilets ‘in Schools, Workhouses,
Factories, etc.’ A huge cistern flushed the water down through all the
toilets (‘Quotations given for any number of Persons’) and then into a
trough underneath which, like a little underground stream, carried all
away. But Crapper had not reckoned with the devilment of the boys in
the workhouses, who had very little fun anyway.

Boys used to crumple up a big bit of paper, set light to it and drop
it down the toilet upstream, to have the occupants leaping into the
air with howls of anguish as it floated along to the outlet. This made
it necessary for Crapper to bring out his Improved Trough Closet Range
in 1902 in which each toilet had a water seal underneath and thus ‘all
the objections hitherto raised to Trough Closets are removed’.

from Flushed With Pride, The Story of Thomas Crapper by Wallace
Reyburn, published in the UK in 1969 and in the US in 1971.

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