GR translation: scarlet VD toilet

[David Morris]

Yes!  The bright red toilet saying, "sit here for VD."

On Saturday, October 5, 2013, Mike Jing wrote:

> 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<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'jstremmel at gmail.com');>
> > wrote:
>
>> Venereal Disease.
>>
>> 2013/10/5 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com <javascript:_e({},
>> 'cvml', '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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