BS: Possible Nobel Peace prize nominee?

Subject: BS: Possible Nobel Peace prize nominee?
From: GUEST,amergin
Date: 19 May 04 - 02:58 PM

there is a new invention out and a male German inventor may become a hero of millions of women worldwide....from CNN:

Talking toilet orders men to sit down
Tuesday, May 18, 2004 Posted: 1:51 PM EDT (1751 GMT)




BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) -- A German inventor who developed a gadget that berates men if they try to use the toilet standing up has sold more than 1.6 million devices, his business manager said on Tuesday.

German women fed up with a man with a poor aim can turn to the ghost-shaped gadget, which lurks under the toilet rim and, if the seat is lifted, declares in a stern female tone:

"Hello, what are you up to then? Put the seat back down right away, you are definitely not to pee standing up ... you will make a right mess..."

Alex Benkhardt, 46, invented the "WC Ghost" and its creators are in negotiations to market it in Britain, Canada and Italy.

Subject: RE: BS: Possible Nobel Peace prize nominee?
From: Amos
Date: 19 May 04 - 03:01 PM

Dear Gawd!! Seems to me there are more important things to spend that kind of money on!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Possible Nobel Peace prize nominee?
From: Don Firth
Date: 19 May 04 - 03:18 PM

Nobel Peace Prize for this? Well, I'm not sure, but considering that, no matter how you slice it, the world would be a much better place if there were a lot more humor in it, it seems to me that a switch connected to a toilet seat that activates a voice has almost unlimited potential. . . .

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Possible Nobel Peace prize nominee?
From: mg
Date: 19 May 04 - 04:38 PM

I think an invention that psychologically belittles men is not particularly funny. If there were a sensor on the wall that spoke to them and asked them to clean up after themselves that would be a different thing entirely. The answer is probably to have urinals in the family bathroom. Women do not own bathrooms. mg

Subject: RE: BS: Possible Nobel Peace prize nominee?
From: GUEST
Date: 19 May 04 - 05:17 PM

No, but they generally end up being the ones elbow deep in Ajax.

Subject: RE: BS: Possible Nobel Peace prize nominee?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 May 04 - 05:28 PM

This isn't a belittling of men, Mary, it's merely a helpful suggestion. There is no particular reason why anyone needs to pee into a toilet from a standing position, and it IS harder to aim that way. What's the point, really? Is a man less of a man if he pees sitting down? I don't think so.

Subject: RE: BS: Possible Nobel Peace prize nominee?
From: Gurney
Date: 20 May 04 - 06:15 AM

Surely it would be cheaper and more reliable to have a taller pan, say urinal height, with steps up for those who sit?

I'm just being mischievous, but if a convenience is more convenient for one gender, why shouldn't that gender be male!

I've never used one, but in what usual condition are those closets, standard in much of the world, that have a hole and two footprints?

Subject: RE: BS: Possible Nobel Peace prize nominee?
From: Gurney
Date: 20 May 04 - 06:16 AM

And isn't 'peace' misspelled?

Subject: RE: BS: Possible Nobel Peace prize nominee?
From: GUEST
Date: 20 May 04 - 10:58 AM

If this is considered as a serious contender, then contrary to most belief's espoused in this forum - The World must be in pretty good shape.

Subject: RE: BS: Possible Nobel Peace prize nominee?
From: GUEST
Date: 20 May 04 - 11:28 AM

jOhn from hull has also been nominated for his spulllin

Subject: RE: BS: Possible Nobel Peace prize nominee?
From: el ted
Date: 20 May 04 - 11:32 AM

When are we going to have a device telling wiomen to lift the seat up? How hard is it for them to do that?

Subject: RE: BS: Possible Nobel Peace prize nominee?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 May 04 - 11:47 AM

I say we do away with toilets altogether and replace them with a large hole in the floor with a rope hanging from the ceiling that one can cling to while positioning oneself over the abyss.

Subject: RE: BS: Possible Nobel Peace prize nominee?
From: el ted
Date: 20 May 04 - 11:49 AM

How very French!

Subject: RE: BS: Possible Nobel Peace prize nominee?
From: Dharmabum
Date: 20 May 04 - 05:52 PM

Zebediah was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young layers, called pullets, and eight or ten roosters, whose job was to fertilize the eggs.
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>       Zeb kept records, and any rooster that didn't perform well went into the soup pot and was replaced. That took an awful lot of Zeb's time; so, Zeb got a set of tiny bells and attached them to his roosters.
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>       Each bell had a different tone so that Zeb could tell, from a distance, which rooster was performing.
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>       Now he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report simply by listening to the bells.
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>       Zeb's favorite rooster was old Brewster. A very fine specimen he was, too.
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>       But on this particular morning, Zeb noticed that Brewster's bell had not rung at all!!
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>       Zeb went to investigate.
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>       The other roosters were chasing pullets, bells a- ringing! The pullets, hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover.
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>       BUT, to Zeb's amazement, Brewster had his bell in his beak, so it couldn't ring. He'd sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one.
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>       Zeb was so proud of Brewster that he entered him in the county fair.
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>       Brewster was an overnight sensation. The judges not only awarded him the No Bell Piece Prize but also the Pulletsurprise .


Sorry,I just couldn't resist.
DB.

Subject: RE: BS: Possible Nobel Peace prize nominee?
From: Gareth
Date: 20 May 04 - 07:13 PM

Actually The unbalenced toilet seat, likely to fall if left open or up tends to encourage a seated position.

Or

Lift,
Aim,
AAAAAHHHH!
Creak,
SLAM !
"Ooooooohhh !!

Gareth

Subject: RE: BS: Possible Nobel Peace prize nominee?
From: CarolC
Date: 20 May 04 - 07:47 PM

the ghost-shaped gadget, which lurks under the toilet rim and, if the seat is lifted, declares in a stern female tone

Oh, man... what a disaster of an idea. The first thing that's going to happen is that the guy who gets scolded in this way is going to use the damnable contraption for target practice. And then, that will cause the sound of the woman's voice to become a secondary reinforcer. With the end result of women all over the world getting peed on by their husbands every time they speak.

I think I'll pass on that one, thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: Possible Nobel Peace prize nominee?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 20 May 04 - 08:52 PM

"The first thing that's going to happen is that the guy who gets scolded in this way is going to use the damnable contraption for target practice."

Carol's got it in one.