GR translation: scarlet VD toilet

[Mike Jing]

Thanks all.  Appreciated.


On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 8:40 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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>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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