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Most of the items are abandoned by jittery passengers who, rather than take a chance on electronic detection, deposit their wares in toilet bowls, rented lockers and potted palms. Thus there are few arrests. Still, the magnetometer has presumably diminished skyjacking. Its only disadvantage, mused one marshal, "is that some of the airlines, by setting up the device, might be losing some trade." Though some passengers might object to being electronically frisked, it seems a small price to pay for skyway safety...
...visited the Pathet Lao headquarters in Sam Neua: "You cannot imagine what it is like in the headquarters of these people. Never is there any halt in the bombing. Not at night: Not by day. One day we were in the cave. The bombing went on and on. The toilet was in another cave only 20 yards away. We could not leave. We could not even run the 20 yards. It was too dangerous...
...Cooper and the Chambers brothers and there were 17,000 13-year-olds there waiting to see Alice Cooper hang himself. The Chambers brothers came out all coked up and ready to go. Then we came out and plunk, I got kit in the head with a roll of toilet paper. Then there were all these kids on reds throwing bottles. This one bottle came down and hit right in front of the band and the next thing I saw was our manager up in the balcony choking shit out of somebody...
...summoned to the office of Anastas Mikoyan, one of Stalin's most durable aides and later Foreign Minister and President of the U.S.S.R., now retired and writing his memoirs. When Kaganovich was confronted with the false evidence against him, he asked permission to use Mikoyan's toilet, where he put a bullet through his head. The source of this story, as retold in Let History Judge, is Mikoyan himself...
...listening to poets reading on phonograph records. He decided to take the plumbing out of his house and completely replace it with poetry, and so he did." The poetry of John Donne replaced the pipes, Shakespeare the bathtub and Emily Dickinson the kitchen sink. The minor poets replaced the toilet. Then the lover of good verse ran into some trouble. When he went to the toilet the minor poets began gossiping about their careers. He decided that the poetry simply wouldn't do as plumbing but it refused to be replaced. The man got in a fight with the poetry...