BS: Fun With Flush!

Subject: BS: Fun With Flush!
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 23 Feb 05 - 06:55 PM

I admit it! This is another damned derivative thread! It's the bastard child of "Fun With Flash!" which I haven't even looked at, figuring that it's gotta be about Flash Animation sites and I'm on a sloooowwww dial-up connection that's not very Flash-friendly.

But, in fact, I do have fun with flush! You see, I have a composting toilet. You don't flush it. Every few trips you turn the little handle and rotate the drum to mix everything together. Then, about once a month, you dump some of it out and put it on the flowers.

Anyway, I sorta miss flushing. Every time I go into town I try to visit a restroom or two so I can flush. And I'm always amazed at the different mechanisms for flush-activation. I met a urinal today that has a botton on top of the flush valve. Never seen that before. And electric-eye-activated units must be getting dirt cheap 'cause everybody's got 'em.

And there's just something pleasing about that "whooooosh" sound. It's like the machine's tellin' ya, "Job well done! Now get outta the way 'cause the person behind you's gotta go pretty badly!"

No, I don't miss the sound enough to go through all the trouble and expense of installing a septic system and a buncha new plumbing just to hear it regularly. The composter works just fine for the two of us, thank you very much. But perhaps some of you regular flushers out there could give old Johnny a flush for me every now and then. Just push the lever down and say, "This one's for Bee-dubya."

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Flush!
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Feb 05 - 07:15 PM

I do that all the time. In fact, I flush it a coupla time 'cause it's a long way from Idaho to Florida.

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Flush LaRue!
From: Peace
Date: 23 Feb 05 - 07:35 PM

Count on me to help out.

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Flush!
From: Peace
Date: 23 Feb 05 - 08:16 PM

I feel like a part of me is leaving . . . sniff . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Flesh!
From: Peace
Date: 23 Feb 05 - 08:19 PM

Flesh--after before!

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Flush!
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 23 Feb 05 - 08:23 PM

Dear Bruce,

You have a severe blue clicky fetish. Please seek professional help before it's too late.

Your friend,

The Other Bruce

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Flush!
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Feb 05 - 08:25 PM

BatGoddess and Curmudgeon have one of those composting toilets and I always find the lack of a flush somewhat disquieting. I saw a toilet magnet that "whooooshed" when you pressed the button but didn't buy it - pre visit to NH. Someday I will get one for Linn.

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Flush!
From: Peace
Date: 23 Feb 05 - 08:28 PM

Write a song about this and give new meaning to scat singing.

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Flush!
From: mack/misophist
Date: 23 Feb 05 - 10:15 PM

As the fortunate caretaker of a flush toilet, I can attest to the many happy hours I've spent standing by the tank and pushing the little lever. Compared to the sounds on local radio, the music it makes is complex, melodic, intensely satisfying.

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Flush!
From: Cluin
Date: 23 Feb 05 - 10:27 PM

But not too much fun.

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Flush!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 23 Feb 05 - 10:30 PM

... Flush was EBBrowning's dog....


She wrote sonnets....


So, I should start a sequence of sonnets here, as well?



8={E

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Flush!
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 23 Feb 05 - 11:19 PM

But the name of Ms. Browning's dog had nothing to do with flushing a toilet. She was a habitual gambler who was severely addicted to seven-card stud poker where a "flush" is five cards of the same suit. She had other dogs named "Straight", "Full-House" and "Four-of-a-Kind".

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Flush!
From: Cluin
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 01:35 AM

And "The Busted Flush" was Travis McGee's boat. That had nothing to do with a toilet either.

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Flush!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 04:19 AM

With the weather here, I'm definitely flushed...

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Flush!
From: sian, west wales
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 04:33 AM

EB Browning's dog wrote sonnets? I'm impressed.

siân

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Flush!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 04:35 AM

Even the dogs in Victorian England were eruadite.

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Flush!
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 05:17 AM

Erudite

Rover (canine pedant)

Woof

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Flush!
From: skipy
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 05:56 AM

o/k I'm NOT going to start it, but the bastard child of this thread should be:-
"Fun with flesh"

Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Flush!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 06:28 AM

thank you, guest Rover. I stand corrected.

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Flush!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 06:57 AM

This thread is just a flush in the pan!
G ¦¬]

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Flush!
From: freda underhill
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 07:04 AM

now you're just flushing for compliments, Giok.

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Flush!
From: skipy
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 08:49 AM

Flushing meadow
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Flush!
From: GUEST,Giok
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 08:52 AM

15 love, your service

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Flush!
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 09:09 AM

Huh! I would contribute again, but I don't want to flush out any more bad puns. The Mudcat Cafe is already flush with punsters of varying stripes, and I don't want to be known a a flush cove.

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Flush!
From: GUEST,Percival
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 09:28 AM

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Flesh!
From: brucie
Date: 23 Feb 05 - 08:19 PM

Flesh--after before!

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Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Flush!
From: skipy
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 05:56 AM

o/k I'm NOT going to start it, but the bastard child of this thread should be:-
"Fun with flesh"

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The bastard post beat you to it.

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Flush!
From: gnu
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 09:32 AM

brucie !! That crossed the line.

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Flush!
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 09:48 AM

I dunno, gnu. It looks like breakfast and dinner to me. But I'm pro-choice in that I chose to eat meat.

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Flush!
From: gnu
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 11:04 AM

Rapaire!! That's two lines.

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Flush!
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 12:14 PM

Hey, you want a link or something?

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Flush!
From: gnu
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 12:37 PM

Oh no, I'm not getting tricked into that shit again. I am not clicking to any of you guys' links again.

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Flush!
From: Cluin
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 12:39 PM

That one made me cross my legs.

Subject: RE: BS: Fun With Flush!
From: frogprince
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 12:50 PM

I fell asleep in the sun once, and wound up looking like one of those in the upper part of the picture.