Reminds me of the story about this American businessman, goes to Japan
for a meeting in an ultra-modern office building in Tokyo. He has to
take a dump, and is told by his host to use a certain bathroom, as it
has been labeled for westerners. Host says just push the buttons in
sequence, but don't push the "ATR" button. He goes in, sits down,
takes a dump and notices no TP, just labeled buttons on the wall.
First button labeled "S". Must mean spray, so he pushes it and a
little nozzle comes out and sprays warm water on his butt. Next
button is "W", so he pushes it and a little arm comes out and wipes
his asscrack clean. Next button "BD", and yep, little air nozzle
comes out and blows his butt dry. Being the curious type, he can't
resist pushing the next button, labled "ATR".........
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The workers all look up from their desk, hearing an agonizing scream
come from the restroom. "Oh no", says the host "I told him not to
push the Automatic Tampax Remover"!

Cheers,
Jim

P.S. Don't try to visualize this, it's not a pretty sight.

J.

On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 15:37:35 -0500, William Brown
wrote:

You're right. There are a number of Japanese companies producing toilet
seats that are heated, that have an air filter, that wash your butt, and
blow dry it.

Jeff Wisnia wrote:

Reminds me of the old American Standard "Ventaway" toilets. IIRC you
pulled up on the handle before you sat down and a steady flow of water
somehow pulled air into the bowl and out down the drain or up the vent.
We used to call them "fartcatchers".

Didn't seem to be enough demand for them to keep making them, and I
suspect they'd be outlawed as water wasters nowadays.

But I bet the Japanese have this one solved, they are absolutely anal
about exotic crappers. (pun intended.)

Jeff

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Jeff Wisnia (W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)

"If you can smile when things are going wrong, you've thought of someone
to blame it on."


Bill Berdux wrote:


Ceiling fans are for removing moisture, not odors, however they do
pull gas and harmful germs up into the bathroom air. A vented toilet
seat (Miracle Seat - www.miracleseat.com) that comes equipped with a
fan vacuums toilet odors and germs from the toilet bowl before they
can escape into the air. The exhaust duct can be connected to the
dryer duct, an existing ceiling fan duct or run to an exterior vent.