IT'S SORT OF LIKE AN ENDOWED CHAIR

Key Quote: "Sometimes my best ideas have come to me while I'm in the bathroom."

(Thanks to Matt Filar)

Comments

[pogo]

Mom would be so proud.

[Steve Haller]

Riiiight. I can just imagine Archimedes jumping up from the toilet crying "Eureka!" ...

[Meanie the Blue]

Then I must be a genius.....

[Bãrön vønKlýff]

I think the plaque should have read:

"Welcome to the Brad Feld Memorial Crapper."

[Annie Where-but-here]

Don't be silly. Guys don't multitask.

[CJrun]

For $100,000 they'll name a lift station after him.

[Siouxie]

"The best ideas often come at inconvenient times. Don't ever close your mind to them."

...just let them flow...sorta like diarrheah...

[MOTW]

It's a quiet moment.
I'll flush to that - bah-WHOOSH!

[DeskDiva]

Hey - it's where Luther did most of his writing and other business. Er....

And *gaspchokesnorksnorksnork* @ "Endowed Chair!" OMG - Dave that is HYSTERICAL!

[Siouxie]

"It's a good time to reflect. It's a quiet moment."

Not at the mudstuffin household.

[Meanie the Blue]

Say, you don't suppose ... nah....

[Annie Where-but-here]

Yes, Meanie. It was originally titled, "The Stinker."

[The Dread Pirate Chris]

Is it my immagination or does Brad look a bit like a Muppet?

[insomniac]

i have gone on record as saying i want one of the bathroom stalls in the building where i work named after me...with a scriptural quote "Do this in remembrance of me."

[circuit7]

That room, and the time spent therein, has saved my job on more than a few occasions...

...this, too, shall pass...

[Annie Where-but-here]

insom - "This doo, in remembrance of me."

[ellie]

What's the big deal? I have my name on bathroom stalls all over TX.

[JEC666]

Windows by Gates?

[daisymae]

snork @ ellie

Endowed Chair = toilet seat

Not sure that's what the college admin had in mind.

[Lizardbreath]

A lot of times I have a great idea while on the crapper, but later I realize damn, that was just $h!t.

[padraig]

Annie, you are officially excommunicated.

Not to mention evacuated.

[Eleanor]

I'd rather have a sewage treatment plant named after me. ;)

ellie, does it say, for a good time, call........? I've been told I have a few of those here in su.so.ca. :)

[padraig]

Annie: "Don't be silly. Guys don't multitask."

Not true. We can multitask anything, as long as one of the tasks is reading the sports section.

[Meanie the Blue]

Well, it looks like Mr. Feld tried to get some help, but found his own somewhat lackluster saying most inspiring in the, um, end , and rejected a lot of, ahem, input. (There's even a single post way down in his thread combining my and Annie's thoughts above).

[Siouxie]

I’m shooting for something that combines entrepreneurship, bathrooms, and the various things people do in bathrooms and is witty while not being obscene or grotesque.

So I'm guessing that "Here I sit broken-hearted, tried to sh!t but only farted" won't make the cut??

[queensbee]

i like the idea of an endowed chair. makes sense.

[Annie Where-but-here]

padraig, you poor misguided Dubliner.... I'd buy you a Guinness, but I'm too busy multitasking elsewhere.

[Afkat]

Brad Feld could have been a little more creative with his quote.

"We aim to please...you aim too, please" would have been my choice...

[Annie Where-but-here]

Afkat - good one! And I'm not gonna ask where you came up with that idea.

[Richard the Weasel-Hearted]

"Venture capitalist Brad Feld donates gets plaque in ATLAS building"

Aaand another paper looks for a new proofreader.

[Annie Where-but-here]

pssst, Richard - in this case, 'gets' is short for 'gastro-enteritis throne stool.'

[Eleanor]

Annie, Akfat's quote is probably older than Dave (nothing personal, Dave!). I've heard it from guys for years and years, or from women who have to clean men's rooms.

[Annie Where-but-here]

Sheesh. Those Canucks can't come up with anything original.

[slyeyes]

*waits for MKJ to find an "endowed chair" on e-B@y*

[Richard the Weasel-Hearted]

AWbh - Yes, well, it should be capitalized in that case, no? They don't get off the hook that easily.

[Afkat]

"Sheesh. Those Canucks can't come up with anything original."

Well geeez, Annie, I never said it was original...just my choice.

But in my defence, having just shovelled 6 inches (screw metric) of white, not-so-fluffy "global warming" off my driveway, here in the supposedly temperate 'burbs' of Vancouver (advertised as having the same climate as San Francisco), I should be forgiven for any lapses in disclosure...

(By the way, Al Gore can kiss my A$$).

Yesterday was the eighth significant snowfall here this year, in a place that has NO snowplows...and more coming tonight and tomorrow.

ARGGGHHH!

I moved here to get away from the snow...spent three times the money for half the house. And what do I get? Snow....

[slyeyes]

Afkat, as they say, "Be careful what you wish for."

I realize that makes no sense. It's my way of preparing for the SOTU.

[Annie Where-but-here]

*snork* @ slyeyes! Nuuuucular....

easy, Richard, or you get GETS.

[Afkat]

OK Sly...not being a 'merican, it took me a few minutes to figure out "SOTU"...but I'm guessing it relates to what George W. is delivering tonight...

[slyeyes]

Yes, it's the "State of the Union" address.

*sigh*

Now you've made me type out the whole thing. I need to go lie down and rest.

[padraig]

I must admit, when I saw the headline about an "endowed chair", I thought it was about a piece of furniture to go with the vagina couch from the other day.

Imagine my embarrassment.

[Danny]

Narrowmindedly, MIT rejected Feld's offer. But the University of Colorado gladly accepted it. Clearly, when it comes to men's rooms the latter school takes a wider stance.

Speaking of which: Does anyone know if the Minneapolis airport sells naming rights?

[DeskDiva]

*whopping big snork for padraig!!!!!*

Also, I made this suggestion to our library dean for the next time our acquisitions budget is low. I mean - we have FIVE FLOORS of restrooms!

[Dusty Kornpharts]

so is it a well endowed chair? I' sure the girls would want to know. Comes with a years supply of butt glue.

[Rosie]

"Sometimes my best ideas have come to me while I'm in the bathroom."

So taking a crap stimulates the brain?