How important is a toilet in your life?

MarkB · Post by **MarkB** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 11:56 am

Germans say they've found Luther's toilet

WITTENBERG, Germany -- German archeologists say they have discovered the toilet on which Martin Luther wrote the 95 Theses that launched the Protestant Reformation.

Full story here:

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst ... her22.html

Surprising what you can find when you go looking for it!

It's a Friday and I'm bored at work department.

MarkB

Father Emmet · Post by **Father Emmet** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 12:14 pm

When the septic tank is full, my toilet becomes extremely important.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 12:47 pm

At first glance, I thought this post read "How important is the toilet in your wife?"

I couldn't figure out what it was asking.

mamakash · Post by **mamakash** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 1:30 pm

Good Lord! It was a typo after all! Martin Luther was writing about 95 feces!

Was all the Catholic guilt making him constipated?

Post by **Nanohedron** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 1:40 pm

Oh, my. I foresee an object of pilgrimage for the Reformation. Plus ça change, etc.

Redwolf · Post by **Redwolf** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 1:56 pm

I always knew old Luther was full of...well...never mind!

Redwolf

TelegramSam · Post by **TelegramSam** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 2:12 pm

Rhein said the foundation would stop at letting the annual 80,000 visitors to Wittenberg sit on the toilet. "There's a point where you have to draw the line," he said.

IDAwHOa · Post by **IDAwHOa** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 3:42 pm

Gee, I wonder if they will attempt to take samples for genetic matching.

Poor technician.

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 3:48 pm

Hmm... it sounds like they're really excited about it. I reminds me of that scene in Life of Brian where that girl holds up the gourd and screams "Follow the gourd". I don't get it. :roll:

I.D.10-t · Post by **I.D.10-t** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 4:15 pm

From the article

The 450-year-old toilet, which was very advanced for its time, is made out of stone blocks and, unusually, has a seat with a hole.

As opposed to a seat without one?

Reminds me of the saran wrap joke people played in school

PS: I thought this was going to be a poll.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 4:27 pm

Paul wrote:Hmm... it sounds like they're really excited about it. I reminds me of that scene in Life of Brian where that girl holds up the gourd and screams "Follow the gourd". I don't get it. :roll:

Sounds like a reference to the slavery-era spiritual that is said to be speaking of the dipper constellation that points to the North Star, and thus "Follow the Drinking Gourd" gets interpreted as go north to freedom.

theotherleadingbrand · Fri Oct 22, 2004 4:53 pm

Let's not be too hasty and dismiss the value of a good toilet. It's a great way to make things disappear when the cops are raiding your house, the reservoir in the back is a good hiding spot for beer, and I don't currently have a mirror. Please help me.

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 4:55 pm

Walden wrote:
Paul wrote:Hmm... it sounds like they're really excited about it. I reminds me of that scene in Life of Brian where that girl holds up the gourd and screams "Follow the gourd". I don't get it. :roll:
Sounds like a reference to the slavery-era spiritual that is said to be speaking of the dipper constellation that points to the North Star, and thus "Follow the Drinking Gourd" gets interpreted as go north to freedom.

Where I come from,going North is not the way to freedom....

Slan,
D.

MarkB · Post by **MarkB** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 5:42 pm

Obvioulsy it was Luther's Stool of Repentance

MarkB[/i]

jim stone · Post by **jim stone** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 6:30 pm

'Here I sit; I can do no other!'