The following trivbit is from http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420AP_WA_ODD_Recovered_Ring.html
A "happy-crappy" ending...
Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- It was a messy job, but two municipal employees painstakingly searched a sewage line and recovered a wedding ring. The effort began after the Public Works Department in the state capital got a letter from Alma F. Coate-Wilson, 98, who wrote that she had accidentally flushed her $8,000, 1.6-carat wedding ring down the toilet in the middle of the night two months ago. Gary Franks, a public works supervisor, said the department rarely gets such requests and usually doesn't have the time to grant them but decided to try this time because of the circumstances. Maintenance workers Bill Davis and Jean Wright started by sending a specially-designed television camera through the sewer line. When that didn't work, they flushed the main line, blocking solids using pea gravel. Finally, they went through the solids with a garden hose and found the ring.
The following trivbit is from http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=12211
How crazy is that?
Coprophobia is an abnormal and persistent fear of crap. Those afflicted, go out of their way to avoid coming into contact with crap or in some cases even seeing it. They say the only cure is "hands-on" therapy. Whaaa?
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I knew there was a reason I wanted to go to Philadelphia...
In the Philadelphia airport, the stalls include not only an American Standard toilet, but a sink and mirror.
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Wow 'em with your knowledge...
Paruresis is the fear of pissing in the company of others. Parcopresis is the inability to take a dump in a public toilet.
The following trivbit is from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidet
Talley ho!
From Wikipedia: Bidet is a French word for "pony." In old French, bider meant to trot. Today's usage comes from the fact that one bestrides or rides a bidet much like one does a pony. The bidet appears to have been an invention of French furniture makers in the late 17th or early 18th century, although no exact date or inventor is known.
The following trivbit is from http://ask.yahoo.com/20031031.html
"It came from the sky!"
Where does the flushed waste from airplane toilets go while in flight? It's common knowledge that the so-called "blue ice" or "brown goo" that accumulates within airplanes does drop onto unsuspecting targets from time to time. Recently, an unlucky resident of Santa Cruz, California, received a special blue ice delivery courtesy of an American Airlines plane right through the skylight of his boat. He took the airline to small claims court and won a modest sum. A Pittsburgh woman's home was also subject to such a delivery. Other folks describe mysterious biological material that appears splattered around their houses and property.
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From the Chicago O'Hare Flight Standards District Office: “Many people believe that aircraft lavatories dump overboard when they are flushed, this is not the case. Lavatory waste is contained on the aircraft in a holding tank until the aircraft lands. When the aircraft is safely on the ground, only ground crew personnel may operate the valve to dump the waste tank. While in flight it is physically impossible for the pilots to dump the waste water because the valve is usually located on the exterior of the aircraft.”
The FAA weighs in: “Airlines are not permitted to dump lavatory waste while in flight. FAA
spokeswoman Holly Baker said that if blue ice hits a house, its mostly the result of a jet lavatory leak. At higher attitudes the leak forms ice on the aircraft. As the jet descends, the
ice warms and starts to fall off the plane.”
-- Gazette.com Local News --
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