SCIENCE ON THE MOVE
We salute the courageous soybean-paste flushers of Yorba Linda.
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January 22, 2006
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Mornin'
cute headline - on it's 'head'
Posted by: Sondra | January 22, 2006 at 09:38 AM
He's #1 on #2.
soybean-paste flushers: GNFARB?
Posted by: KOW | January 22, 2006 at 09:40 AM
This just too much "media" for me to take on a Sunday morning.
Posted by: Stupendous Man | January 22, 2006 at 09:45 AM
The man is sixty-seven years old. I stopped having fun flushing foreign objects before I was four.
Obviously, I am guy-impaired.
Posted by: golfwidow | January 22, 2006 at 09:52 AM
Key Quote: This led Koeller and his Canadian cohort, Bill Gauley, to start flushing gummy bears and oatmeal --tecnically (sic) called media -- down their test toilets in Toronto.
As a former member of the media (until I sell something again), I can only say...
Nope, got nothing. Guess I just like the quote. *goes to make coffee*
Posted by: WriterDude | January 22, 2006 at 09:55 AM
WriterDude...yeah, I'm pretty sure the White House was involved in devising the 'tecnical' name for this stuff. It's that nickname thing again...
But I'm more intrigued by the fact that the first Google paid link is to a miso paste vendor. Either they figure there are a lot of amateur 'testers' out here, or they think somehow the story will give us a hankering for their, uh, medium.
Ewww...
Posted by: Betsy | January 22, 2006 at 10:04 AM
Photos of the "media" are included in this important publication.
*toot*
Posted by: Leetie | January 22, 2006 at 10:10 AM
I'm so proud that this is a joint Canadian-American science project. It could only be better if the American part of the team was based in Flushing, New York.
Posted by: ArcticAl | January 22, 2006 at 10:15 AM
If you make it to the very last page of the report, you learn how you can purchase your very own "cased" medium specimens. (Does this picture remind anyone else of the oscar mayer whistles?)
Posted by: mathmom | January 22, 2006 at 10:24 AM
this explains why so many in the media have media for brains....
as Norton (allegedly) told Ralph when asked about his job... "It's not so bad Ralph, you just gotta watch out for the floaters"
Posted by: russell | January 22, 2006 at 10:25 AM
*zips in*
HEY THERE, Arctic Al - Watch what towns you're trashing! I grew up in Flushing, NY until we moved to su.so.ca. !
Posted by: Eleanor | January 22, 2006 at 10:33 AM
Yo, Eleanor - my parents are from Brooklyn and still talk like dat. I knew there was something I liked about you. Let me know if you want Artic Al whacked, or flushed, or 'misoed', IYKWIM.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | January 22, 2006 at 11:26 AM
As in misoed cod, AWBH?
Posted by: Poop Dogg | January 22, 2006 at 11:35 AM
As in misoed cod, AWBH?
Posted by: Poop Dogg | January 22, 2006 at 11:35 AM
As in misoed cod, AWBH?
Posted by: Poop Dogg | January 22, 2006 at 11:35 AM
As in misoed cod, AWBH?
Posted by: Poop Dogg | January 22, 2006 at 11:35 AM
One more and Poop Dogg would be a four flusher.
Posted by: slyeyes | January 22, 2006 at 11:36 AM
?
Posted by: Poop Dogg | January 22, 2006 at 11:36 AM
Oops, spoke too soon
Posted by: slyeyes | January 22, 2006 at 11:37 AM
*1, 2, 3, 4... *
Actually, one more and it would be a Flush, period.
(Not that I am not honored at double-posting with you, slyeyes.)
Posted by: Poop Dogg | January 22, 2006 at 11:40 AM
simulpost, that is.
Posted by: PoopDogg | January 22, 2006 at 11:41 AM
the man owns a "Toto Ultra Flush" ? does that mean he can excrete a small terrier and not cause problems?
"I just ate several pounds of soybean paste, my pretty, and your little dog, too."
Posted by: insomniac | January 22, 2006 at 12:19 PM
Wowser!
Inneresting stuff ... it does raise a few questions in what passes for my mind, however.
i.e.: Why this prejudice against "floaters"?
Why are there "floaters"?
Is there something wrong with a person who has "floaters" occasionally?
Is there something really pretty badly wrong with a person who has "floaters" on a regular (!?) basis?
Why does this testing program choose to ignore the added complication of flushing "floaters" and any compensatory or enhancatory efforts utilized to "make them go away" by adding extra paper, multiple flushes, or combinations thereof?
How many people actually use only six sheets of paper when engaged in this type of research and/or daily activity?
Do these people seem to be miserly, stingy and mean-spirited?
Does this general attitude prevail in their entire lifestyle, or is it simply a temporary manifestation inspired by the necessity of using more than six sheets of paper?
Does the "quality" of paper affect, in any signifant way, to any significant degree, the effectiveness of flusher(s) being tested.
Does anyone have any real-life experience with top-rated or "failures" so that reality checks may be used to evaluate effectiveness of this testing program?
Who give a sh!t?
Posted by: U.O | January 22, 2006 at 01:22 PM
P'Dogg - probably more Ebonic than New Yawk, "misoed" as in "Yo, mess wid my man Jack again, and I'm gonna put a miso through yo thigh, bro."
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | January 22, 2006 at 02:59 PM
U.O.: "Floaters" are caused by an abundance of fiber in the diet and are actually a good thing from a health perspective (and PLEASE don't ask how I know this).
Okay, I'll tell it's that whole monkey and poo thing. We monkeys are experts;)
Posted by: monkeyshines | January 22, 2006 at 03:04 PM
Correction in case the Punctuation Fairy is watching:
Okay, I'll tell - it's that whole monkey and poo thing. We monkeys are experts;)
Posted by: monkeyshines | January 22, 2006 at 03:06 PM
Monkeys and poo. Huh. I knew there was a reason I had to check the blog again after running errands and before returning to the work they actually pay me for.
Every day, in every way, the blog makes me better and better.
Posted by: Betsy | January 22, 2006 at 03:14 PM
Just a comment from abroad, lots of modern high-tech toilets from Germany and Holland have two buttons, (with braille no-less). one for the low-flow use, and the other for "acts of congress" Hey America, get with the program!!
Posted by: americaninprovence | January 22, 2006 at 03:39 PM
Mister Man
MOOD: In Love
Turds gotta float and f@rts gotta fly,
I've gotta love my crapper till I die.
Can't help lovin' that hiflo toilet of mine!
Hey brother,
I loves my flusher!
Tell me I'm lazy,
Tell me it's so,
Tell me I'm crazy,
Maybe I know!
Can't help lovin' that seven-gallong toilet of mine!
Posted by: U.O | January 22, 2006 at 03:39 PM
Betsy - Glad to help.
Posted by: monkeyshines | January 22, 2006 at 03:40 PM
AIP - They've got them in Italy too.
Posted by: monkeyshines | January 22, 2006 at 04:15 PM
What a hoot---look at the Google ads at the bottom of the article--they figured somehow that we are reading about soybean paste, why, we must want to BUY some. Yum. not. No kidding, an ad for Japanese miso paste, then the toilet ads. My husband, Bob thinks Dave did this article on purpose. I think it is just the randomness of google.
Posted by: Bob's wife | January 22, 2006 at 04:20 PM
King Wingbipeekaboo had absolutely nothing to do with this, he wants to make it known right now, if this is illegal.
Posted by: King Wingbipeekaboo | January 22, 2006 at 04:22 PM
Bob's wife -- thanks for confirming my earlier observation. I was afraid maybe Google had done something totally irrational and re-linked the story to something about oh, say, plumbing:)
Posted by: Betsy | January 22, 2006 at 06:28 PM
Aw media! My low-flow toliet doesn't work!
Posted by: bobndougfan | January 22, 2006 at 06:40 PM
I... I have a tear in my eye. *sniff*
Posted by: AlanBoss | January 22, 2006 at 10:28 PM
"What he does with this paste would make any seventh-grade boy bray with delight."
Hee-Haw!
Posted by: mudstuffin | January 23, 2006 at 09:54 AM
Do I need to know that a freaking water wiggler is?
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