Call 800-oh-my-god

[shereads]

Oh yes. Yes indeed.

Thank you, Alexander Graham Bell. (Speaking of rice-a-roni moments, if the name had been Alexander Graham Siren, what would phones have sounded like? Would we even have allowed them in our homes?)

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Alexander Graham Bell was the one who thought you should answer the phone by called "Ahoy!"

---dr.M.

 

[shereads]

I don't answer the phone, Dr. M.

I just make random nuisance calls.

 

[wishfulthinking]

I was a bit slow on the uptake, but the modern flush toilet was invented by someone by the last name of Crapper. I had one of those RaR moments myself!

 

[shereads]

Mister Watson, come here.

I need you.

 

[McKenna]

.

 

[Guest]

Good grief, Mack. In college? I think I was 12 the last I made crank calls (well, not including the ones I made to ex-husbands).

Perdita

 

[McKenna]

.

 

[hiddenself]

I was a bit slow on the uptake, but the modern flush toilet was invented by someone by the last name of Crapper. I had one of those RaR moments myself!

Alas WFT, although Dr.M.'s story is thought to be true, that's not the case with yours -- basically, an urban legend:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/gi/dy...e=http://www.plumbingsupply.com/pmthomas.html
http://www.snopes.com/business/names/crapper.asp

 

[wishfulthinking]

Alas WFT, although Dr.M.'s story is thought to be true, that's not the case with yours -- basically, an urban legend:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/gi/dy...e=http://www.plumbingsupply.com/pmthomas.html
http://www.snopes.com/business/names/crapper.asp

No, no, it has to be true!!

I say this because on my tampon box they have odd spot facts, and this was one of them. So if they say it is true, then it simply has to be. Yes, I know, this is really gross.

So I did my own search:

History of the Flush Toilet

There is disagreement over who was the inventor of the modern flush toilet, and flushing out the truth is not easy. Many give credit to THOMAS CRAPPER (1837-1910), an English sanitary engineer, for inventing the valve~and~siphon arangement that made our modern toilet possible. Then there are others who maintain that our hero was a nameless MINOAN (a native of ancient Crete) who lived some 4,000 years ago. And then there are those who give the credit to ALEXANDER CUMMING who patented a flushing device in 1775.


But we also have Sir JOHN HARRINGTON who published a pamphlet in the 16th Century called the "Metamorphosis of Ajax" (The title is a pun..."jakes" was a common term for privy) with the full instructions for the construction of a valve closet. Still later GEORGE JENNINGS in the 18th Century made contributions that were considered the ultimate in plumbing mechanisms.

At least he was a contender!

 

[shereads]

Dammit, Mister Watson.

I really need you.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Not at all Sure of the veracity of this Rar moment, but in the big bathroom book it notes that one ot the early designers of barzire to compete with the corsets in fashion at the time was one Otto Titsling.

-Colly

 

[Gary Chambers]

Oh yes. Yes indeed.

Thank you, Alexander Graham Bell. (Speaking of rice-a-roni moments, if the name had been Alexander Graham Siren, what would phones have sounded like? Would we even have allowed them in our homes?)

You almost didn't get the phone at all. Alex was a Canadian. He invented the phone in Canada and first proved its potential here. Canadian business and government leaders looked at the contraption, could not see how it could be used to dig a hole, plow a field, fall a tree or even catch a fish and declared it the folly of an eccentric. Bell moved to the U.S.A. and the rest is history. Bunting's discovery of insulin followed the same path.

 

[Guest]

Dammit, Mister Watson. I really need you.

ella,
Sorry to have to inform you, but Mr. Watson moved to head up a wireless conglomerate in Venezuela.

Perdita

 

[hiddenself]

No, no, it has to be true!!

I say this because on my tampon box they have odd spot facts, and this was one of them. So if they say it is true, then it simply has to be. Yes, I know, this is really gross.

Not to me.
Anyway, if it's a green-string one, I'd be more inclined to believe. If it has white string, forget it.

 

[shereads]

Odd spot facts.

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