George W. Bush Memorial Urinal

As most of you adventure clubbers know, we here at Potty Mouth (tm) usually steer clear of politics, but we just couldn't resist spotlighting the latest piece by artist Clark Sorensen: a George W. Bush urinal! Hurry and pick one up, San Francisco residents, and maybe you can have the singular honor of sending your pee through the Presidential Potty straight through to the proposed (renamed) George W. Bush Sewage Plant, on the ballot next week in the City by the Bay. It's a positively poetic thought!

George W. Bush Urinal by Clark Sorensen

Ultra-Realism from Japan

Hmm, this is the kind of graphic art we don't need to see in the morning... It's a poster telling people to scoop their dog's poop and...well, you can see for yourself. That ain't special effects, folks.

Courtesy of the wonderful blog Tokyo Mango.

Ultra-Realistic Japanese Curb-Your-Dog Poster

French Man Sucked Into Train Toilet

A guy on a high-speed train in France dropped his cellphone into the train's toilet. Not thinking about--or not knowing--the fact that those toilets have an automatic flushing mechanism stimulated by the presence of, er, objects in the toilet bowl (heheh...I didn't say "poop"!), the guy reached in for his phone, the flusher kicked in, and his arm was trapped in the toilet bowl!

Follow the link below for all the gory details. We are reminded, of course, of two somewhat related stories: the infamous obese woman supposedly stuck on the airplane toilet (investigated later by Mythbusters, as reported here by Poop Report), and our own classic Potty Mouth episode, "Bowls on the Go". Though luckily, we didn't stick any appendages in the (admittedly low-tech) Thai train toilet. Oh yeah, and we would be remiss without a Trainspotting reference as well (see photo above)...

Man's Arm Trapped in Train Toilet

Another Potty Mouth Episode Online!

That's right kids, yet another classic episode from the Potty Mouth Archives has been unleashed. In this 2002 classic, On is on her own (as it were) in Tokyo, where she visits her friend Dave and gives us a tour of his high-tech Japanese bathroom.

Remember that you can download the entire Potty Mouth Colllector's Edition DVD (tm) here as a disk image. It contains not only snazzy "interactive menus" (don't you love when they list that as a "feature" on all DVDs?!) and all Season One and Two episodes, but also secret extras you can't get anywhere else, like Potty Mouth in Laos 2005 and the fabled "Ancestral Crapper" episode, banned in Syracuse.

Direct Link to the Potty Mouth Episode 11

Fart and Lower Your Blood Pressure

It's all here in this latest study (by scientists, using mice, so it's gotta be true): your stinky farts may help to lower your blood pressure. Great news for many Americans, who have high blood pressure because they're overweight, and have stinky farts because they eat so much junk...

Stinky Farts May Lower Blood Pressure

Sit or Squat

This is exciting: a much-needed website not only telling us where the public restrooms are, but whether they're actually worthy of lowering one's butt to the seat!! And now, soon to be an iPhone App!! The title kinda reminds us of a classic Potty Mouth Episode, too.

Sit or Squat

The Butt-Sprayer vs Toilet Paper Debate Rages On

Today, we have this lovely essay from the blog Utter Insanity on the important butt-sprayer vs. TP question that has plagued humankind throughout the ages (you know where Potty Mouth weighs in on the debate!), with a link to yet another interesting article on the subject within the blog article. The writer also mentions something I hadn't really heard of or thought about before--though it makes sense that it exists--"moist toilet paper"! Check it out and decide for yourself.

Butt-Sprayer vs. TP vs. Moist Toilet Paper

Poop Power for the Future

As we're always telling you here on Potty Mouth (tm), the secret to "green" power of the future is the limitless energy of our poop...proven here once again. This time they're thinking of using sewage as a kind of battery:

Sewage-Powered Fuel Cells

Cat Flushing The Toilet

No, not just one, a whole bunch of them! A whole bunch of cats, that is, flushing a whole bunch of toilets. Two of our favorite things here at Potty Mouth, united at last! And dig that crazy They Might Be Giants-style music! You can't go wrong!

Here's the direct link

"Everybody Poops": Political T-Shirt

Just in time for the upcoming US presidential election, the folks at Threadless T-Shirts have a special poop-themed little number that covers the bases for both major parties.

"Everybody Poops" Political Party T-Shirt

Futuristic Toilets

I don't know about the design of these futuristic bowls from a Russian design competition, but I'm diggin' those crazy colors... From Yanko Design.

Futuristic Russian Bowls

One-Handed Toilet Paper Dispenser

Leave it to our friends the Japanese, potty-mouths (and potty-minded) that they are (and you know I mean that in a totally positive way!) to come up with the latest advance in low-tech toilet paper dispense mechanisms. Though I don't know about you folks, but I already only use one hand when performing my toilette, as it were... From Diginfo.

New Advances in Toilet Paper Dispensing Technology

Optimal Toilet Paper Length: A Scholarly Analysis

If you can understand British English, you may enjoy this "article" on professors coming up with an equation to compute the ideal length of toilet paper required to remove all of the "poo" from one's "backside". Cute.

Optimal Toilet Paper Length

Fish in a (Working) Urinal

Now, we reported to you last month about the aquarium flush-tank toilet, but this one is a bit much...kinda cruel to the fish, I'd say! From Wired for Strange blog.

Chinese Restaurant Keeps Fish in Urinal

Outhouse Racing

Well, we've seen the jet-powered outhouse, and this weekend in Virginia City, Nevada, they held a potty-fest complete with outhouse races! Potty Mouth approved!

Outhouse Racing in Nevada

Put Down That Toilet Seat!

C'mon guys--just like your wife or girlfriend is always telling you. And NO, it's not so they don't accidentally sit down on cold, piss-covered porcelain in the middle of the night (eeewww!), this time it's to save the environment.

Seems the Japanese environmental protection agency has launched a campaign to get folks to put the toilet seat down...something about reducing CO2 emissions. Now if only we could harness all that methane gas...

Put the Toilet Seat Down and Save the Planet

Briefcase Toilet

Continuing our movable toilet theme, check this one out: for the busy executive or traveling salesperson, I guess! Hopefully you won't leak poop or pee onto that important document you have to get signed by the client in Amsterdam...!! From Trendhunter Magazine.

Toilet-in-a-Briefcase

Toilets to Go--With "Dignity"

Here's the latest in "green toilets" (and NO, I'm not referring to how it will look after you use it!): a portable toilet you screw into the ground, use for about a week, and then unscrew and move to a different location! Crazy!

Portable "Dignity Toilet"