GR translation: scarlet VD toilet

[Mike Jing]

Oh, I get it.  So it's a specially designated toilet indicated by its
color.


On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 3:35 AM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Venereal Disease.
>
> 2013/10/5 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:
> > V452.17-24    Coefficients, ja, ja. . . . Achtfaden flings himself
> > disconsolately on the scarlet VD toilet way down at the very end of the
> row.
> > He knows about coefficients. In Aachen once, for a while, he and his
> > colleagues could stand in the forward watchtower: look out into the
> country
> > of the barbarians through Hermann and Wieselsberger’s tiny window.
> Terrific
> > compressions, diamond shadows writhing like snakes. Often the sting was
> > bigger than the model itself—the very need to measure interfered with the
> > observations. That should have been a clue right there.
> >
> > What does the "VD" stand for in "scarlet VD toilet"?
>
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