Wednesday, April 24, 2002

Toilet Technology

Buck Wolfe's latest Wolfe Files profiles advances in human waste disposal.

Evidently the great cheeseheads of Green Bay have a crapper history exhibit opening April 27th at the Neville Museum.

Every advance -- from the communal brine soaked sponge of the Romans to a human litter box -- will be displayed.

Wolfe has also compiled a timeline of commode milestones.

Samples:

1935: Who's Got the Tweezers? — Northern Tissue is hailed as one of the few splinter-free toilet papers on the market.

1964: Enter Mr. Whipple — He appears for more than 20 years in TV, radio and print advertising. The real George Whipple was the president of the Benton & Bowles advertising agency, which came up with the "Please, don't squeeze the Charmin" ad campaign. He sold the rights to his name to Procter & Gamble for $1. Dick Wilson, the vaudeville veteran who portrayed Mr. Whipple on TV, later recalled his agent calling him about the project.

"My agent asked me, 'What do you think of toilet paper?' And I told him, 'I think everybody should use it.'"

For his role in making Charmin the No. 1 toilet paper in America, Wilson's salary grew to $300,000 a year, and Procter & Gamble promised him a "lifetime supply" of toilet paper.

Click here for the rest.

The best bathroom tip I've run across lately is to always drop the lid before flushing.

Not only will it keep the women of a household happier, evidently bacteria can be projectile sprayed up to twenty feet if the lid is not closed.

*Yummy*

posted by Bohica at 9:54 AM