Comments on: Going to pot.

By: Anne Arky

Anne Arky — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 18:06:28 +0000

I have to tell you, I am so impressed by the technospeak I am learning here! I never knew that the official word for jiggling the toilet handle was to “clink” it (see Mel’s post to figure out where I live), and I always thought the word was spelled “terlet”, but to my everlasting amazement, I find it is spelled “turlet”. Makes sense, considering it shares the first three letters of another word that routinely goes bowling there. I’m still trying to figure out what size Terrenflipperstrudel you have to use to tighten in the liftenhuggencatcher, but I think I’m catching onto this. Dayum, I’m enjoying this! Great blog!

By: Katee

Katee — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 21:24:50 +0000

Try an American Standard Champion toilet … man, those things are great! One simple flush … whoosh. And they never run on and on. I have put them in all 18 of my motel rooms.

By: cha

cha — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 08:53:56 +0000

Mel: ROTFLMAO!

We just went through something similar at our house.. long story short, new toilet in the upstairs bathroom.. a very swanky, elongated bowl, Kohler.

We go flushy, flushy. Poop go downy, downy! It’s all good.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 04:41:04 +0000

Remids me of the episide of King of the Hill where they had to install “low flow” toilets. Then it took 7 flushes to get the floaters down. And Bobby says “Mom, you should have done 8″.

By: Melanhead

Melanhead — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 02:20:12 +0000

This reminds me of a time when we had a guest stay over at our newly purchased condo in Los Angeles. He had his guest bathroom, and we had our own bathroom. Well 24 hours into his stay, we saw him run down the hall to use OUR bathroom. Strange, I thought. It turned out he plugged up our NEW toilet to the point where my husband had to buy The Snake to fix it. The guest didn’t say boo about the plug-up once during his 5 day stay. Nice, huh?

By: Mel

Mel — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 20:39:50 +0000

We have a pot with a vacuum assist. Dear Husband and Dear Son still manage to stop it up occasionally, but over all it’s pretty satisfactory.

Oh, and in the south we don’t clink, we jiggle our toilets. As in, “Git in there raht now and jigguhl that handuhl! Cain’t chew hear that toe-let runnin?”

By: John

John — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:18:04 +0000

Well…good try untitledhusband. I would say the next step would be to hover over the plumber saying ‘I see you chose the Terrenflipperstrudel to tighten in the liftenhuggencatcher….nice choice’.

By: mike

mike — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 15:43:50 +0000

Just had to say that the “inner Vila” remark had me, well, nearly peeing. A+

By: V-Grrrl

V-Grrrl — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:06:51 +0000

Buy a European toilet. Back in the States, E-Man replaced all the toilet guts in our 10-year-old house. When we still had to babysit the toilets to make sure they behaved, he replaced ALL of them with Kohler ones. No relief. The delicate little E-Grrrl plugged the toilets at least once a week. We had the pipes snaked, the septic tank pumped, etc. Then moved to Belgium. The bathrooms in our house here are UGLY but those toilets do the job right.