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Husband Forgets to Flush Toilet December 16, 2014. Marty McDonough is the talk of the town after he forgot to flush the toilet on Sunday afternoon. SHILLINGTON, PA – At least once a week Andrea McDonough has to remind her husband Marty not to leave the toilet seat up, but Sunday represented a first – he forgot to flush following a sizable mid-afternoon bowel movement. The mistake was not discovered until later that evening while the couple was watching “60 Minutes.”
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- One of my kids simply doesn't flush the toilet. It's not like she's 2 and just recently learning how to use the toilet. She's nearly 6 years old and forgets all the time. There is nothing more offensive than going to the washroom to find that the toilet hasn't been flushed. Ahhh.
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- At my parents house you have to hold the handle for it to flush completely. My little brother often forgets this. Here's the problem, we both live away from home, but we occasionally are in the area and stop by my parents at different times.
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Who Invented the Toilet? No one knows for sure how the first human beings on Earth managed the daily process of going to the bathroom. However, if you’ve ever been out hiking and had to go and there was no bathroom around for miles, then you probably have some idea of how things might have worked back then.
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Phantom Flush: Does Your Toilet Have A Ghost? Phantom Flush: The Flapper. The most common culprit to this “phantom flush,” is the toilet’s flapper. The flapper is what seals the hole from the tank to the bowl. These do, unfortunately, wear out over time. If it’s worn, it doesn’t seal the tank’s hole completely and gradually seeps water into the bowl.
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The History of Plumbing 1 In 1596, a flush toilet was invented and built for Queen Elizabeth I by her Godson, Sir John Harrington. 2  The first patent for the flushing toilet was issued to Alexander Cummings in 1775. 3  During the 1800s, people realized that poor sanitary conditions caused diseases.
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10 Common Toliet Problems & the Solutions If the toilet was made before 1994, hard water deposits in the syphon jet hole or the angled bowl rim swirl holes may be the source of your frustration. You can try to clean them out with wood sticks and oversized toothpicks, but a muriatic acid wash will really do the job. Mix one part acid to 10 parts water.
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How Dual Flush Toilets Work In 1980, Bruce Thompson of Caroma Industries created the first two-button flushing system, a convenient method of manually selecting the water volume of each flush -- a half flush for liquid waste and a full flush for solid waste -- with the push of a button [source: Biotechnology Innovations ].
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- 1 On December 19, 1973 comedian Johnny Carson causes a three week toilet paper shortage in the USA after a joke scares consumers into stockpiling supplies.  The average American uses 57 sheets of toilet paper a day or more than 20,805 sheets a year, and is a $2.4 billion dollar industry.
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Bath Salts (But Were Afraid to Google) Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Bath Salts (But Were Afraid to Google) After discovering that it was bath salts that turned 31-year-old Rudy Eugene into the face-eating Miami Zombie, we did some crowd-sourcing -- ie. asked our colleagues at The Atlantic Wire -- and realized we don't know much about these bath salt things.
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Toilet paper Joseph Gayetty is widely credited with being the inventor of modern commercially available toilet paper in the United States. Gayetty's paper, first introduced in 1857, was available as late as the 1920s. Gayetty's Medicated Paper was sold in packages of flat sheets, watermarked with the inventor's name.
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Do Toilets ReallyFlush the Opposite Way in the Southern Hemisphere? You’ve almost certainly heard about this before. The idea was used as the basis for an episode of The Simpsons, about toilets flushing the opposite way in the southern hemisphere. I’ve also written about this many times, including in my first book Bad Astronomy, and also here on the blog.
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF TOILETS In Medieval castles the toilet was called a garderobe and it was simply a vertical shaft with a stone seat at the top. Some garderobes emptied into the moat. In the Middle Ages wealthy people might use rags to wipe their behinds. Ordinary people often used a plant called common mullein or woolly mullein.hey too built drainage systems, which also took sewage. Toilets were flushed with water. The Romans also built sewers to collect rainwater and sewage. (They even had a goddess of sewers called Cloacina!).
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- 8.5. By pudgebyrd722, Mar 12, 2012. Thomas wants to pull a passenger train for once, and despite the doubt of the other engines, he gets the opportunity when Henry falls ill. But he performs one of the most embarrassing acts experienced by any engine in the series when he forgets the coaches. I want to know why his own drivers didn't notice anything.
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- While Thomas Crapper is commonly given credit for inventing the first flushing toilet in the late 1800s, the first version can actually be traced back to 1596. At this time, a British nobleman, Sir John Harrington, first engineered and invented a valve that could release water from the water closet (WC) when pulled. Sir Harrington, who was also the godson of Queen Elizabeth I, recommended pulling the valve (“flushing” the toilet) once a day for sanitary purposes.
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The Quick 10: 10 Undignifed Deaths 3. Elvis, of course. No, he didn't die on the toilet, like everyone says, but it was pretty close. He was sitting there when he became ill (the placement of vomit and vomit stains indicated this in the official report, anyway) and then stumbled a few feet away to where he died.
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Obituary: Richard Griffiths Richard Griffiths, who has died at the age of 65, was one of Britain's most celebrated character actors and will perhaps be best remembered for his role as the predatory Uncle Monty in cult classic Withnail and I. A popular stage and screen actor, he also had many starring roles on television and the West End.
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Bill Peet, Author of Children's Books Other children's books by Bill Peet include The Wump World, Cyrus the Unsinkable Sea Serpent, The Wingdingdilly, Chester, The Worldly Pig, The Caboose Who Got Loose, How Droofus the Dragon Lost His Head and his last book, Cock-a-Doodle Dudley. Bill Peet died on May 11, 2002 at the age of 87.
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Lea Thompson It's widely regarded as the WORST MOVIE OF ALL TIME -- and even Lea Thompson, star of the 1986 catastrophe, agrees ... Howard the Duck was a steaming pile of animatronic crap.The 51-year-old… READ MORE >.
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Toilet Wonât Flush All the Way? A Florida Plumber Explains Why If your toilet still isn’t flushing completely after this, there may be a clog in the toilet flange or drain, which will require a professional. Blocked inlet holes. Your toilet’s inlet holes are located just under the lip in your toilet bowl. When the toilet is flushed, water pours from these holes.
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The History of the Flush Toilet By: Maureen K. Francis In the article, he described in detail his invention, the first flushing water closet. He erected one at Kelston, near Bath, England. The water closet, for the most part, worked, and the Queen had Sir John install a water closet in the Royal Palace.
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Scatman Crothers Talk0 Share. Benjamin Sherman Scatman Crothers (May 23, 1910 – November 22, 1986) was an American actor, singer, dancer and musician known for his work as Louie the Garbage Man on the TV show Chico and the Man, and as Dick Hallorann in The Shining in 1980.
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- For most people, the modern toilet doesn't cause any problems, she says. But if you're to believe Slate's Lametti, squatting on top of the toilet could be a time-saver — he managed to drop his 10-minute routine down to a minute. 1  hemorrhoids. 2  Women's Health. 3  Share. 4  Facebook. 5  Twitter. 6  Google+. 7  Email.
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- 1 Try to avoid using your bare hands to touch anything (i.e. faucet handle, toilet flusher, door handle, etc.). 2  Always be sure to wear some sort of footwear, whether they are sandals, thongs (flip-flops), or your favorite pair of sneakers.  Hold children (girls) above the toilet or use or make a liner for them.
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- Ok, this may be a bit of a rant but... One of my kids simply doesn't flush the toilet. It's not like she's 2 and just recently learning how to use the toilet. She's nearly 6 years old and forgets all the time.
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Art Carney Arthur William Matthew Art Carney (November 4, 1918 – November 9, 2003) was an American actor in film, stage, television and radio. He is best known for playing sewer worker Ed Norton opposite Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden in the sitcom The Honeymooners, and for winning the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Harry and Tonto.