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Pantuzzi: He's been kissing ass so long, he wipes his nose with toilet paper...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: The Bronx Through Blue Eyes | 2/20/1981 | See Source »

...Tsars. In pre-revolutionary times "6" served as a "public house" where public women offered their services to the Tsar's officers. We used to joke that the plumbing probably hadn't been fixed since that time and that when the women left they probably took the toilet seats and hot water with them...

Author: By Ethan Burger and Frederick Schneider, S | Title: From Russia....with Ambivalence | 2/19/1981 | See Source »

Meanwhile, back in the dining hall, Horne and her cohorts are reminiscing over last weekend's roadtrip to Princeton. It seems the resourceful hoopsters held a party in one of the hotel rooms, keeping Coach Kleinfelder preoccupied while Horne snuck back and smeared her doorhandles, toilet seat, and phone with Vaseline, switched her luggage, stashed her squash racket and other belongings under the sink, telephoned the desk and switched the morning wakeup call to 6 a.m., and then waltzed back nonchalantly to the party...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: PAT HORNE | 2/19/1981 | See Source »

...awakened late the next morning by a guard, who had no idea of what had happened to me that night, summoning me to breakfast. I still could not speak. I finally got one word out: "Toilet." Holding the wall, I slowly made my way to where he indicated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Is to Happen to Me Tonight? | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

...ways to communicate with each other. In the early days they were taken to the bathroom with a guard; initially the guard would enter the bathroom with a hostage, but the Iranians themselves were embarrassed and soon stood outside. So a hostage would scribble a quick note on toilet paper and leave it to be read by the next captive to enter the bathroom. The hostages also worked out a code of raps with the knuckles on a wall at the Mushroom, as do prisoners the world over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran Hostages: Tales of Torment and Triumph | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

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