All hail Thomas Crapper!

Despite the urban legend, Crapper did not invent the flush toilet (the myth assisted by his surname).

Darn.

However, Crapper did much to increase its popularity and came up with some related inventions.

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One of my cousins (I think it's a cousin--his name is John and we have the same last name)

If he is some sort of relative in a way that's difficult to explain which sometimes may even require drawing diagrams, then I'd say he's a cousin. At least, that's what I actually say in such descriptions instead of delving into way-too-similar-to-knitting-instructions explanations.

I did get to scare my parents a bit with the following "well I was looking at the composting toilets..." They have little to no ability to know where my wacky and joking dividing line is. I mean, sure a composting toilet if I had a yard, but not in NYC.

Awesome and surreal purses: [link]

At least msbelle didn't have to deal with this: Hailstones blasted man off toilet

An Austrian man, Martin Bierbauer, was blasted off the toilet when huge hailstones started shooting out of it.

The crazy weather in Austria where the temperature dropped over 30 degrees centigrade in just a few days has led to freak hail storms in the country.

Martin Bierbauer said: “I heard the pipes rumbling a bit, and suddenly hailstones the size of golf balls started exploding out of the toilet like it was a popcorn machine.

“There was an avalanche of ice that quickly filled the toilet, then the entire flat, and eventually the entire building.

“I ran down the stairs with the hailstones following me, and other residents did the same.”

The incident was caused by hailstones flooding into a local drain during a torrential downpour, which became blocked. The pressure become to great and the hailstones had to go somewhere and they came out through the toilets.

With pictures.

If he is some sort of relative in a way that's difficult to explain which sometimes may even require drawing diagrams, then I'd say he's a cousin.

It really just shows the tenuous grasp I have on my family relations. I'm pretty sure he's a first cousin, I'm just shaky on this particular branch of cousins. I have 38 first cousins, and some of them I've only met once or twice. This guy, I think, is from the family of 15, most of which I have only met once.

Funny cat video: [link]

No really, it's really funny.

::staggers in, waves, goes to collapse in corner::

I'll be here for the next week or so. Carry on. Did I miss anything? (she says wryly)

And juliana, jz, and Nanita, I can't BELIEVE we didn't get any pictures together. I put it down to my brain leaking out of my left ear.

This day doesn't seem to end.

Coffee, you're my only friend now. I luv you. Yes I do. Oh yes I do.

It really just shows the tenuous grasp I have on my family relations.

Oh, I know what you mean. On my mom's side, I have first cousins whom I probably never met (way way older than me, several of them already grandparents to grown children). But then, there are the second-cousins and the honestly-I'm-not-sure-how-they're-related-to-us who are around my age who used to stay with us on occasion during summer vacations and the like, which I don't only know but am quite fond of, so there's that, as well.

[Edit:

I can't BELIEVE we didn't get any pictures together.

Barb, clearly you have to go again. And have lots and lots of fun. Just for the pictures, of course.]