Word: toileting
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...ritual, innit?" is the best any of these Olimpians can come up with, and Daeschner wisely avoids proposing any fancier theories. Instead he joins in, getting his ribs crushed while Swaying the Hood (150-a-side prehistoric rugby), denting shins at Chipping Campden and passing out in a pub toilet having tried to go whisky-for-whisky with the Burryman - who is sewn, head and body, into a suit of prickly burdock burrs so that all the ambient evils of South Queensferry near Edinburgh will stick to him. Maybe the key to the mysteries of True Brits...
...Fish have lives and feelings too." CAROL LIAN, co-organizer of the Singapore International Fish Show, explaining why unwanted pet fish were put up for adoption in an attempt to spare them from being flushed down the toilet...
Every political period has its characteristic form of scandal. During the Reagan defense buildup of the mid-1980s, the scandal of the day was "waste, fraud and mismanagement" at the Pentagon, symbolized by the infamous $640 toilet seat. Amid the general embarrassment and excusemaking, only one defense hawk was bold enough to declare that waste and fraud were actually good things. "We need more" of them, wrote Edward Luttwak in Commentary. If you're going to build a stronger defense and build it fast, a bit of corruption is a necessary by-product...
Henry I. Stern sat on Saddam Hussein’s toilet. The college senior won’t stop talking about his time in Iraq, but he’s not all that excited about the gritty realities of war. He’d rather tell about his adventures cavorting with the United States Special Forces—“SF’s” for those familiar with military jargon—hence the porcelain...
...learn lingo like "the 10-and-5 rule" (you look at hotel guests when they're 10 ft. away and greet them at 5). The execs descend the work ladder until we get to the money shot: the boss scrubbing a frying pan or a toilet. ("Some of our guests miss," a housekeeper warns Tisch as he tackles a commode...