The Loo
Why do the British say the “loo”?
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Why do the British say the “loo”?
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Nice toilet humor! Of course, “eau” is pronounced like a long vowel “o” in French. As for “lieu,” it is pronounced like “lyeu” where ‘y” is a consonant and “eu” sounds a lot like the “oo” in the English word “good.” I don’t know why the French would say “Gardez l’eau !” as that would mean to keep the water, not get rid of it. Unless “gardez” is a shortened form of “regardez”–though that sounds iffy to me.
think tank.
And can I say that loo is a regional word and much of Britain as far as I can tell does use the word toilet.
the loo and bathroom and W.C so what does W.C means?
W.C means is short for water closet. don’t know why though…
Water Closet (often abbrevaited as WC all across Europe) is a polite form of euphemism for the toilet, that probably came about from the “smallest room” being little larger than a closet, and having a water tank for flushing purposes.
In fact I’m going to challenge Marina on this one, because I think the derivation of Loo comes from this.
Water Closet was sometimes referred to as the Waterloo (after the famous battle) as an even less offensive euphemism, which then got shortened to Loo. QED.
BTW, I grew up near a town called Waterlooville, which was supposedly built up around a camp of soldiers returning from the great battle.
wut is da different between trip and travel
my 7 yr old brother calls it the wee wee house
awsome, sadly i have always wondered about the origin of this word, thanx teach
the John
Dear Teacher,
Oreilly has done it again, what does “Lagubrious” mean?
Dear Teacher,
Bill has done it again ! What does Lagubrious mean?
funny word
Dear teacher
“Garde à l’eau! Garde à l’eau!” which means:Get away from here, I’m gonna wash your hair with my urine
Thank you for this very interesting lesson
Amicalement
Don Felipe
How abou tthe word BURST……BURSTING…
the ‘ THUNDERHOUSE ‘
the BOG
going for a DUMP……..spending a penny
cockney slang…….Jimmy riddle …….
oxoxoxooxox
Looks like all the best and most-used euphemisms for toilet are present and accounted for except one: “the hopper.”
Luv you honey!:)
Still getting caught up. Words for toilet: can, crapper, john, head, WC, water closet, latrine, commode, outhouse, (bidet ?)
How about John, outhouse or the sand box.
Well, Marina, the military calls it a latrine and also the head. I’d like to know where the term “the head” came from?
Hi lambeausouth,
For a nice report on this subject, scroll down this page to CaptainJack’s comment of July 4th, 8:50am. It’s all very well outlined and I was surprised by what I learned there.
Cheers.
I have also heard people calling the Loo as
“the JOHN”,
“the TOILET”,
“the LAST HOUSE’,
“the HEAD”,
“the MEDITATION ROOM”,
“the TORPEDO BAY”
“the THINKING ROOM” and also
“the THRONE”.
Thanks Marina, you’ve gotten’ me much more interested in Etymology.
Keep up the GREAT JOB.
Other words for “loo”.
Americans seem to say “bathroom” or “restroom” when they come over here. Like in can I use your “restroom?” This cracks us up in England. Like you want to rest or take a bath in there!! Like you must be crazy dude - but we try not to laugh.
Other words - er -
karzy, kazi, carsey (Brit version of English - from Italian, casa = house, according to my dictionary).
Shithouse. Also brick shithouse. As in the phrase “built like a brick shithouse” - meaning - well it isn’t in my dictionary - like it was built very stoutly - often to refer to a person - presumably from the time when a lot of people had a loo at the bottom of the garden made like a shed - to have your shithouse made from bricks - well that was the bogs dollocks.
The bog
Can’t think of any more just now.
Nick
Heya Marina,
just wanted to suggest the word “farfetched” Thx if u do
from Souljablacc66
Aka (youtube acc) Vgwiz28
Yes. I remember where that came from.
Someone asked why Americans call LIEUTENANTS “loo-tenants” (lol loo tenants)
and why the British call them “lef-tenants”.
I heard somewhere that the reason is because they don’t want to have the “loo” in such a high title.
That was probably way off, but still.
Can’t believe people used to dump stuff out on the streets like that. At least the plague taught everyone a tough lessson.
Great lesson again.
As Marina stated in her loo video, “lieu” means place.
The word tenant means “holder,” such as a lease holder, or tenant, of an apartment (or flat).
Lieutenant literally translated is place-holder. It generally means someone holding the place of his/her superior, one who whose authority is to be obeyed in as if it were of his superior, or one acting as a deputy or next-in-command.
In military parlance, the rank of Lieutenant is just under Captain, but it could also be a Lieutenant Commander or Lieutenant General. Outside of the military, there are Lieutenant Governors.
Unfortuantely, I’m not able to find any information on the pronunciation of “lef-ten-ant” except that it was spelled with an F as far back as the 1300’s.
I did a lesson on that word Arx Virtus, it was pronounced with an F as the British thought they heard a WUH sound when the French said lieu.. and that gradually became became v or f sound to ultimately the f sound.
Here is the video: lieutenant
I think it might be related to the letters U and V.. and the letter W (double U???), they are Vs not Us
I will be doing a video on that shortly as well.
I wanna know where did the world “jawn” come from
How many quatloos does it take to exchange 100 flurdiflatts?
you can prolly find out either at http://www.quatloos.com/
or in Nigeria…
Depends on the strike price of 129 sickles set on the Showgart Exchange on Tuesday at noon.
It must be a guy thing..but one of my all time fun movies is the “Hunt for the Red October”
In the movie the US Navy sonar guy’s states the Russian Sub is pulling a “Crazy Ivan”
It that a real expression used by submariners or is just made up for film.?
Anyway, you are the most innovative and enjoyable website I visit every day.
Please keep up your great work!!!!
I wish you the very best!
scelfo79
Hello CaptainJack,
I’m bringing the bottom discussion about intelligence up here.
From her command of the English language and reading her comments, I venture a guess that Marina’s intelligence is above 150 or Genius level. Remember Edison’s quote; “Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration”.
On the web you can find the top most recent intelligent women. Two gorgeous intelligent women from several decades ago that come to mind, and there are many, is Marilyn Vos Savant who reportedly has an IQ of 186+ and Jill St. John, a Bond girl, with a reported IQ of over 150.
Lots of fascinating women, and we are privileged to be in the company of a new star.
Tnks pedantickarl.
Well Im sure Marina would qualify for membership in Mensa. You only need 132 or so. Regardless what her score would be she is very smart, fun, driven to goals, caring, responsible, etc. Which are all great factors I like to see in people, especially in women. It really hard to spot intelligence physically. I see a pretty girl walk down the street and automatically I think of her as being another sheeple. I see a lesser attractive woman thinking she might be smart and find out she is also a sheeple. Even when I watch Marina’s video I don’t see her intelligence right off the bat. Its only when she speaks and writes in her blog then I see the intelligence. So this total sumps me when I go out dating. Im alway thinking can I have an intelligence and fun conversation with this person? Usually I figure this out by the first or second date. I also keep sex completely out of the picture. People make a lot of exceptions when sex is involved. Going back to my original test that I do when dating someone. I use the two brains in a jar theory (you know like in Futurama show). If I can have a wonderful fulfilling relationship with a woman as just to minds in a jar, then that my test. Anything less would be just well unfair. Its just going through the motions of being a couple.
Yes there is more to that, but two minds in a jar is a good start.
Yea I see Miss Marina as a star. She will go far in her journey where ever that takes her.
Hope the my rant wasn’t boring you. I’m sorry if do. Just speak your mind and let me know.
OH I’m sorry Capitan. I fell asleep…could you repeat that please? LOL.
Did I read were Marina or someone had asked if other Countrys have 4th of July?
duH.. yes. Right after the 3rd and before the 5th. Duh..
FYI, Roadrunmch, these videos will illustrate why I urge you to get a basic background and understanding of the science you challenge before you start asking questions or coming up with logical explanations for gaps you perceive. It’s easy to step in something……
Ignore the inflammatory title, and listen carefully to the content, please - and I ask you nicely, please. I’d like to know your thoughts on it.
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS5vid4GkEY&feature =related
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=istxUVBZD2s&feature =related
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdEZTdOlGss&feature =related
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjFeVwuJB7I&feature =related
There are many more…. and they’re not exclusively about biological evolution…. but, they are apropos of your assertions that evolution says skin evolves into eyes, or that life came out of mud or that nobody proved that life could be made inside a light bulb. Those are statements that are well beyond ludicrous. And, I tell you that NOT as any type of attack or insult. I say it as a friend metaphorically pointing out when his friend has booger showing in his nose or his zipper is down. You need to know it.
“Le lieu” sounds more likely. Firstly, lieu sounds more like loo than “L’eau” does. L’eau sounds more like “lo.”
Secondly, Many English words came from French during the period of Norman rule over parts of Britannia. For example, do you know why we call meat from a cow “beef”, meat from a pig “pork”, and meat from a deer “venison”?
Beef is from Old French “boef” which is from the Latin “bos” which means cow.
Pork Old French “porc” which is from the Latin “porcus” which means pig.
Last of all, venison from Old French “venaison” from Latin “venation” (meaning a product of hunting).
The British lower classes just used the word of the Norman ruling class.
Prolly Dutch, iffin you aks me.
Hi Marina! I would like to request; where did the origination of the word “HOTEL” come from? Happy 4th of July to you!
Dobre Utra! (I think it’s spelled right this time).
Hello, my dear teacher, I would like to request the words:
1)Hat Trick.
2)Pet
3)Camel toe.
Thank you.
Hi Marina, I was wondering the origin of the phrase, “to play hookie” as in to pretend you’re sick to skip school/work. Great work as always!
It’s a Portmanteau word. It started out with high school kids skipping school to get a little nookie. Usually they went to someone’s home to do it, so it became “home nookie” and eventually hookie or hooky.
i thought it was from Peter Pan…
Peter: “How about we go play a trick on ol’ one-hand?”
Lost Boys: “You mean you want to play a trick on Captain Hook again?:
Peter: “Sure - it beats growing up.”
Lost Boys: “Alright! Let’s go play Hooky!”…
dude, I made it up. I don’t know where the word came from. Did you really think “home nookie” sounded right?
Damn, I’m good! 
The funny thing is that the French used to mark public toilets W.C. which stands of course for the archaic English “water closet”–the original English word for a flushing toilet, which is also itself weird because it’s not a closet at all!
Furthermore, our word toilet (which is considered a tacky word in Britain by the way–polite people don’t use it, but it is used) is derived from the French, toilette, which originally was not a not a word for a toilet at all, but for either the act of a woman bathing, or a woman dressing or her putting on make-up.
Finally, It is also used to refer to the total result of all of these feminine preparations (hairstyle, makeup and outfit)–the whole result of the way a woman has turned herself out. This is what we refer to now with the slang word “look,” but I can’t think of a formal parallel in English. Can you think of a term that refers at once to oufit, to hairstyle and to makeup other than look?–I can’t.
More recently of course, the French term has been influenced by the English use of the word toilet and now commonly refers to the toilet!
Another widespread English term for the loo, which is a polite term, is the familiar one of “bog.”
I forgot one addtional meaning of the French toilette–it also refers to the dressing table at which a woman would do her toilette–confusing!
The first bathrooms (toilets) were put into what were formerly closets in old buildings (W.C.), remember indoor plumbing was really an amazing structural advancement. Of course, you realize that the Romans had it–even before they had England.
well latley me and my friends have been using the word “INCOGNITO” and I got to wondering, what was the origin to thaty word I looked it up couldn’t really get anything so i was wondering if you could figure it out… and happy fouth of july!
The Latin word “cognitus” means “known.” Its where we get the words “cognition” and “recognize.” Thus, incognito means “unknown.” If you travel incognito, you travel as an unknown, anonymous or “could-be-anyone” person.
watch out….
whatch out
Here in mexico, there’s a word like “what out!” which in Spanish the meaning is “Aguas!” and the translation of this word in English is “Watter”. The root of this word, comes from the 1700’s where people used to throw through the window the contents of the recipient they used as a toilet. So, before they do this, they used to shout “Aguas” and then throw every thing to the street. YAKKK…
Marina, Is there a meaning for YAKKK?
Is that just ; “Waters” literally
You are right! that’s what I wanted to say.
hmmm…to “yak” is to talk excessively…much like many
women…’er…people do…since a yak is a Tibetan cow, i suppose “yakking” would be tossin’ ’round a lot of bull…like many
men…’er…other people do…now, “yuck” is an interesting word, it seems to me…on one hand it means, “gross” or “terrible” but on the other hand, it can mean something exceedingly funny, as in, “i get a big yuck out of some of the posts here.”…
Interesting
“Atom” comes from Greek “temnein”, to cut (temple also comes from the same word). “A” as usual means “not”. So “atom” means “unsplittable” or so. By now, we know a lot of subatomic structures, but 250 years ago this was not the case. And anyway, you cannot divide an atom without changing qualitatively the properties of matter.
As for water flowing down in opposite directions on either side of the equator, that´s a fairy tale. It would work if the closets were some km in diameter, but USUALLY they are not, so many other effects are more important than the Coriolis force. What happens at the equator, by the way? Do closets just not work at all ;-)?
You mean Atom Ant? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1Vc5wdRMQY
YOU mean Adam Ant??? Who among us remembers that Punk was brushing-up against Funk and that people really used to dance?
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=wtxuPqjSJDc&feature= related
got the word:
EMPATH! <3
xoxoxo
m
“Em” derives from “en,” which is Greek for “in”…and “pathos” means “feeling,” so an Empath is one who is “in feeling” with someone else; i.e., totally understanding how another feels…
oh, my favorite witches…
wow! thanks :*
What about some “Q” words? For example,
quewpie
quincunx
quim
quagmire
quire
quixotic
quaff
I particularly like “quincunx” but “quagmire” is great too, quixotic and quim are of interest too… I’m sure there are other “q-words” that are worth investigating as well
in french “lieu” is pronounced LIÖ (the german Ö)
and “l’eau” is pronounced LO
your investigation seems correct ( O, OO, Ö are “cousins”)
HI Marina!
What’s the origin of the word “dumbbell?”
I know it’s used for lifting weights but what’s with the dumb and the bell?
Hello my dear Techer
, i want to request the word “climax” can you elaborate your answer into a practical meaning? thank you -
Your Naughty student WOLFFENGONG
Can I request the meaning of “hardheaded” or “fad” please Marina.
Your the best
Wow Guys,
This is the best comment page yet. You even have Marina giving thought provoking answers. I went to Youtube on the 3rd and tried invite more to come by and visit ( Hope that’s not a NO, NO.) Might piss off Lisanova, No matter, If they came by today they will be impressed.
I don’t want to jinks it, so I will just read for now.
RRResting.
lol…hope you invited the polite ones, and not the droolin’ monkies…
i’m already here…
Are you suggesting that Marina doesn’t normally give thought provoking answers?
You’re Banned!
http://jigoku.studio-zoe.com/temp/banned.png
I guess so ?
She is usually apologising or appeasing one Us, A ego got bruised or someone caught a typo.
But today She is right in there having fun. And give long and thought out opions.
But Sorry …If I’ve over stepped my place….again.
3Rs
Ha! kidding!
prospero is a kidder today…
must be something in the water…
Problem with communication via text is that facial expressions are nearly completely removed. Facial expressions are very important form of communications with people. Hence the invention of emotions. I try to use them as much as I remember to. I keep forgetting them. Just like now….
Just kidding…
Didn’t they do that in Romeo and Juliet? Or they said something about dumping the toilet water out the window?
Марина, another word for the toilet is the “library”, as it is a good place to read. LOL!
How about the word “tycoon”. That is an interesting word that does not seem to have an easy to figure origin.
Tycoon is likely from Japanese tai-kun meaning a “great lord.” It eventually came to be the title for any very rich person who controlled a business “empire.”
This one is going better than the panties game we played. Every thing is just as much fun as riding in a honey wagon. Yeehaw
It would be nice if you can find something about the word “Atom”, the meaning, construction and use nowadays.
I will download the video, so I can remember it easily.
I’d like to learn more about words related to “hap.” How are “happen” and “happy” related? Where does that word stem come from?
This is a question I’ve had since I learned the word “glücklich.”
Ha! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cm1r3d2Qw4
We all like the toilet humor
It’s a LOO LOO
A bit racy… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3NpekrVXYQ
Yea Pros it might be, but the ending was priceless!!!!
That is a scream! Thanks, Prospero811. LMAO
Pros, I tried your Viking Name generator and it was frighteningly, freakishly appropriate when I used “Bob”, but if I use “Robert” I get this which I think is better suited to yourself,
:-
“Eirík , the One who will be killed before the opening credits start when Hollywood makes the movie version of this raid”
the throne
The interesting history of the water closet:
Sir John Harrington, godson to Queen Elizabeth, set about making a “necessary” for his godmother and himself in 1596 - it is the first known example of a water closet, but he never made another one.
180 years later Alexander Cummings, reinvented Harrington’s water closet. Cummings invented the Strap,a sliding valve between the bowl and the trap. It was the first of its kind.
In 1777, Samuel Prosser applied for and received a patent
for a plunger closet.
In 1778 Joseph Bramah made a closet with a valve at the bottom of the bowl that worked on a hinge,a predecessor to the modern ballcock. Heh heh…. “ballcock.”
Thomas Twyford revolutionized the water closet business in 1885 when he built the first trapless toilet in a one-piece, all china design.
The first Americans awarded a patent for a water closet are James T. Henry and William Campbell. In 1875 their plunger closet resembled some of the twin-basin water closets developed and derided in England. These units were less than sanitary and shunned by some of the industry’s earliest pioneers.
The myth that has persisted — that Thomas Crapper invented the toilet - is false!
I have a brother who’s a developer and putting in waterless toilets. He has been preaching about them for years & years and now he’s finally going to really use this great (his words) world saving device.
213th!
Ok so I can’t spell. Dang it. I am glad you corrected me. There you big bully.
346th!
Happy 4th, geronimo.
I’m curious about your career choice. How did you break into the business; did you have to get certified or attend classes to get work as an investigator? Did you start out as a process server or a law enforcement officer or something? Do tell!
Hm.. Toilet, Shitter, John, Potty. That is all I can think of
It’s my potty and I’ll cry if I want to.
Just think there are 207 comments about a Loo or toilet. That is a lot of sh1t floating around.
How is politics like a septic tank?
All the really big chunks always rise to the top!
speaking of which, you cited the wrong rule…
i have a ton of FRECKLES, where did that word come from. AND APARTMENT(why is it called an apartment if it is together)
Have you ever called Europe on the Great White Telephone?
Drop the Kids Off at the Pool?
I’ve called my friend Ralph on the big white telephone.
That second reference has an “off color” past…..the word “kids” is a replacement, much like that pesky “Tiger” being caught by the toe….
I thought that “dropping the kids off at the pool” was a euphemism for onanism.
Hmmm…. apparently that is a secondary meaning… but the primary one is “pinching a loaf.” http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dro p+the+kids+off+at+the+pool
onanism is spillin’ seed on the ground…’er…early birth control for a philanderer…
tho’ i suppose tossin’ ‘em in the bus is annudder way…
oops…that’s TMI…
How long have waited to use that word???
Onan was the Biblical inventor of the “money shot.”
Hey Marina same words > toilet, throne, wc, at Greek we say τουαλέτα or χέστρα
tHANK YOU FOR THE EXPLANATION ABOUT THE wc.
LOVE,
Claudia.
My nautical word list with first attested date. Why did I pick them? Some I use often, some were funny, some were just because. This is not a word request Marina so don’t get your skirt in a bind.
Artificial eye - 1961
Baboon Watch - 1300?
Baggywrinkle - 1961
Baldheaded - 1961
Bareboat - 1976
Beetle - AD 897
Bitter end - 1627
Bloody Flag - 1976
Blue Peter - 1823
Bobstay - AD 1100?
Booby-hatch - 1840
Bottle-screw - 1961
Breastwork - 1769?
Buttock - 1627
Chinese gybe - 1976
Cow hitch - 1867
Cut and run - 1704
Cut water - 1644
Dagger-board - 1375
Davy Jones - 1751
Dead horse - 1832
Dead Marine - 1785
Dead reckoning - 1613
Dickey, Dicky - 1801
Duck up - 1706
Dutchman - 1859
Frenchman - 1846
Galley - BC 3000
Gingerbread work - 1748
Gripe - 1627
Guy - 1620
Hemp - 1300?
Holystone - 1823
Hooker - 1641
Irish pennants -????
Jackass - 1867
Jew’s harp - 1750
Larboard - 1300
Limey - 1859
Marina - 1935
Marry - 1815
Meet her - 1776
Murderer - 1497
Necklace - 1860
Niggerheads - 1927
Petty Officer - 1760
Picaroon - 1624
Poop - 1486
Portuguese parliament - 1897
Powder-Mondey - 1682
Prick - 1595
Rumbo 1846
St Elmo’s Fire - 1561
Scotchman - 1841
Scull - 1345
Sheepshank - 1627
Skipper’s Daughters - 1390?
Snatch - 1867
Snob - 1781
Suck the monkey - 1797
Thieves’ cat - 1867
Turk’s Head - 1833
Twice-laid - 1592
Ok Jack I have to ask. What is suck the monkey.
I hear laughing in the back ground but you peaked my interest. 
And what about Kissing the Captain’s Daughter?
Maybe that happens after you shake hands with the governor?
and your baggy is wrinkled?…
Suck the Monkey - To drink from a bottle; later,to drink spirits from a coconut emptied of its milk, brought on board by West Indian woment during the War of American Independence (1775-82). ‘Suck from Old English ’sucan’, corresponding to the Latin ’sugere’, plus monkey.
I call them “Dead Sea Gerbils”, some call them Baggywrinkles
- padding to prevent chafe, made up of bunches of old rope yarn, sennet, etc., often knotted across two strands of marline. Also spelt ‘bag-o’ -wrinkle’, ‘baggy rinkle’, ‘bag a wrinkle’, etc; not applied to the wrinkeld sagging of a badly cut or stretched sail.
The spelling ‘bag-o’ wrinkle’ is the most likely etymology to offer. The word is not in the OED as far as I can tell.
Skipper’s Daughters - refers to high white-crested breaking waves. I used to call them just white caps.
Skipper strictly, a sailor qualified by examination to act as a Master, but commonly applied to captains of relatively small craft, or indeed to those who act as such, whether competent or not.
Adapted from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German ’schipper’, from ’schip’, a ship: similar words, some identical to the English (as in Frisian and Danish) exist in other related languages.
Are you familiar with this site, Jack?
I bet n****r heads draws a lot of attention. Especially if you are in port.
I don’t know about Jack’s if he even has one, but if she is old enough.
No Bob, Tnks I even bookmarked it.
Niggerheads - Bollards, and sometimes called winch heads. A nigger-headed sail is one whose leech has acquired and inward curve. from ‘nigger’ (itself and alteration of ‘neger’, from the French ‘negre’) plus ‘heads’. First attested in this nautical sense in 1927 in Bradford, Glossary.
“I don’t know about Jack’s if he even has one, but if she is old enough. :twisted:” I didn’t get the joke. Your sentence was to short or im blond headed today…
How do you think you’re going to make Teacher’s Pet by making blonde jokes, Jack?
Jack wants to pet Teacher, not be Teacher’s Pet…
which is his undoin’…
Well, don’t we all?
Bob, Im going to keep making all the bloody blond joke I want to make. I used to be blond so I have every right. I even had hair longer than what Marina has right now.
Anyways I don’t want to make teacher pet. Thats all in the history books. I like annuddermale idea. I want a teacher for a pet! Can you hear it now?”Come here Marina, come on, come Marina, come site on daddy lap. Awe thats a good girl. Your such a good girl, yea she is. Oh you want your belly rubbed? you want your belly rubbed? Your such a good girl…Yes you are!..” The only problem is Kobey would get jealous.
capman911 replied on July 4th, 2008 11:24 am:
I bet n****r heads draws a lot of attention. Especially if you are in port.
Only if He is in America. It has little more then a word used to describe a color. ie Black ( Negro )
I have a word request !
?
BlackJack.
Why it is black
There are two types of Jacks in every deck, one-eyed & two-eyed. Go figure, but it is very hard to loose if you’ve got at least one one-eyed Jack.
Would you rather if we would call the game; Jack of Spades? Spades because it is the dominate suit ie Ace of Spades is #1
I wonder if anybody’s heard of John Toiletseat as in prank calls?
Hi, here in Mexico, we tell the toilet the throne (El Trono) as a joke. I don’t know why, but is funny when someone says: Well I need to go to the throne. Saludos a Cesar.
I wonder how this ties into the old nursery rhyme “Skip to The Loo”?
HEY !!!
Confound it all - what’re all you people doing in school on a holiday ?!
That’s right !! Scram !!
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Good no more line for the voting booths ….
When school is actually fun, who wants to leave? HA!
Ah yes, Pagedoll & Capman …. Already I have boiled all the water out of soups or while making hard-boiled eggs. Anyone gone days without eating - just riveted to their keyboards?
Dave you must have snuck in the back door. So have a seat and join in.
Marina, did you get a potty mouth from the martini you were drinking?
I’m not turning in any more homework until I find out what happened to my last effort on toponyms!