Comments on: Some days it is blessed relief

By: dr_zoidberg

dr_zoidberg — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:39:02 +0000

Excuse my limited Mandarin (I have only two semester equivalent of Japanese lessons), the Chinese text there is : “One place, one dream/wish”.

By: yufan

yufan — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:16:53 +0000

it’s funny both in the original Chinese and the translation!!

By: hollyr57

hollyr57 — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 04:01:31 +0000

The toilet seat issue is almost as devisive as the Un Civil War. I’ve seen both sexes in several marriages or partnership nearly come to blows over it. Both partners claimed that the other was spoiled and arrogant and neither partner could see the other side. We settled the question very easily at my house: if he leaves the seat up and sit in the toilet water (alswys enjoyable at 2 am) I just get a glass of water and pur it on his bu tt. Quiet strength and dignity, that’s me.

By: hollyr57

hollyr57 — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:55:57 +0000

I think you mean the Japlish site, about three menu choices to your right.

By: hollyr57

hollyr57 — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:50:31 +0000

Because it’s a good song, from a good movie, with a good singer, and a good dream. Ellen Green didn’t sing about the one toilet but you just know she was dreaming about it.

My favorite song was “Dentist” though. I tried hard to work it into a comment last week but it’s kind of obscure.

By: DR Mac

DR Mac — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:23:01 +0000

Welcome to the Toilet zone…..

By: b

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:44:51 +0000

This is a joke sign you can buy from almost every market stall in Hong Kong …. they have millions different ones there…

By: buckinarut

buckinarut — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:35:17 +0000

And it’s so refreshing.

By: buckinarut

buckinarut — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:33:20 +0000

Wasn’t sure about the colts thing, except for the ones from Baltimore. And Indianapolis.

The bulls, however, I know all about their feelings of possesiveness towards their pastures. Seen it and ran from it firsthand. Well, I ran on my firstfeet, not my firsthands. Though I might have done that if I had tripped. Would’ve looked like a Tex Avery cartoon.

By: PoodleGroomer

PoodleGroomer — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:50:03 +0000

Western style toilets. One place. One dream. Fulfilled.

By: PoodleGroomer

PoodleGroomer — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:47:30 +0000

I tried it both ways. I left the lid up. She went into the bathroom half asleep, and sat down into the bowl. I put the lid down, so the dog wouldn’t drink out of the toilet while we were trying to sleep. She went to the bathroom in her sleep and urinated on the lid. She checks the seat status now.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:48:10 +0000

Oh, and besides, it’s newborn babies who poop rainbows, although the smell of violets is nowhere in evidence.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:47:33 +0000

My habit is to bring in a spare roll when the one on the dispenser is less than half full. So much for your presumptions regarding male behavior!

By: JohnB

JohnB — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:46:13 +0000

Colts can sometimes take exception to strange humans making deposits upon their pastures. As can bulls!

By: buckinarut

buckinarut — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:24:06 +0000

I did that one time. I translated the phrase “it’s all water under the bridge” directly into Spanish, and no one knew what the hell it was I was saying. Luckily, a bilingual friend was nearby, shook his head and said, “que no se traduce”; I was trying to be a smart ass and obviously failed. I realize all I had to say was “no es importante” and there would have been no problems.

By: dr handle

dr handle — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:59:49 +0000

Because we poop rainbows. And our wee-wee smells of violets. Now, just do what you’re told. We shall move on to the difficult issue of Replacing The Loo Paper When The Roll Runs Out later.

By: dr handle

dr handle — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:57:25 +0000

I prefer the Mona Ogg, as described by Terry Pratchett. Uncannily, the teeth are said to follow you around the room.

By: buckinarut

buckinarut — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:10:36 +0000

But you do live in horse country, so you could jump a fence and leave a deposit in a pasture, and no one would be the wiser. Except a mare or two, and a foal.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:48:37 +0000

What I’ve never figured out is why females get so irritated when we don’t put the seat down after urinating, when THEY often don’t put the LID down when they are finished!

By: JohnB

JohnB — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:37:52 +0000

As an IBS sufferer myself, I sympathize! My dream is toilets built in to car seats. Living in rural Kentucky, I find it often hits me when I am in the middle of nowhere, with not even one toilet available for many miles!

By: PoodleGroomer

PoodleGroomer — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:58:32 +0000

In Nicholson’s “About Schmidt”, his wife would yell at him to sit while urinating. After she died, he starts to sit, and in an act of defiantly reclaiming his life and manhood, he remained standing. My wife didn’t catch the punch line. I was laughing so hard I slid off of the couch.

By: dr handle

dr handle — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:54:00 +0000

I wrote it when I was 14 – it’s long since gone wherever secondary school essays go to die. I may have eaten it just to make sure that the teacher’s comments about my carefully reasoned theory, meticulous presentation of supporting evidence and daring synthesis were never seen again.

By: PoodleGroomer

PoodleGroomer — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:58:25 +0000

They just found a nude Lisa, similar pose. One for the hall, one for the library.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:10:32 +0000

Well, Galileo didn’t have good PR if “PR” means “Papal relations”! Actually, the original idea was from a poor illiterate peasant, Goldberg Whoopee, who did not have the ability to obtain a patent for his device, although it bears his name to this day.

By: buckinarut

buckinarut — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:34:07 +0000

Didn’t Galileo get the idea originally from Copernicus? Galileo just had better PR. Except with his PR campaign with the Pope.

By: buckinarut

buckinarut — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:32:06 +0000

Only thing is, from what I recall about Signore Da Vinci was that he was partial to males and not females. Maybe if his zoetrope showed the Vitruvian Man doing something interesting with certain elements in the drawing I might think it more plausible. Not that he wouldn’t have done the Mona Lisa thing.

By: Droll not Troll

Droll not Troll — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:41:10 +0000

You can’t insult the Holy Farter!

Sorry.

By: Droll not Troll

Droll not Troll — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:36:43 +0000

Haha! When I read “the helicopter screw thing” I thought, “Leonardo p0rn?”, then I remembered a sci-fi story I read years ago.
The plot, set in the 20th century, centres around 2 or 3 paintings of the Mona Lisa, which are naturally assumed to be fakes, but are then proved to be genuine, even though there are slight differences between them.
Long story short, two people track them to a cave in Italy, where they find a large wooden zoetrope with more Mona Lisa paintings. When they set it going, Mona Lisa flips down the top of her bodice and winks! Leonardo invents the first p0rn movie!
@ dr handle: When can we read the Whoopee Cushion story?

By: JohnB

JohnB — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:22:32 +0000

Silly! Everybody knows it was Galileo who invented the whoopee cushion. That’s why he got in so much trouble with the church, since he unveiled it by putting it on the Pope’s throne.

By: buckinarut

buckinarut — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:50:31 +0000

Hey, I thought I saw that in his sketchbook, after the helicopter screw thing and before his sketch of a cadaver’s uvula.

By: dr handle

dr handle — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:22:49 +0000

LOL will find a way.

By: dr handle

dr handle — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:32:24 +0000

Thank you *blush* But I’d check the facts somewhere reputable; I failed history regularly in high school, and dropped it after Year 9. Apparently, making up something more interesting that what actually happened doesn’t get you extra marks in history. Unless you happen to be a politician, a CEO or clergy. Which is a pity, because my essay on “Leonardo da Vinci – Father Of The Whoopee Cushion” was (in my 14-year-old estimation) utterly brilliant.

By: Gorgon Medusa

Gorgon Medusa — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:17:56 +0000

As a Protestant myself, now I have a glimmer of understanding of what goes on in the confessional.

(Brillaint post, Dr Handle, btw)

By: Ally

Ally — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:49:37 +0000

One: the sign is Chinese, not Japanese.
Two: unless someone can find the meaning of the idiom, “one place, one dream,” I have to say it is correctly translated cause that is exactly what is written. It doesn’t make sense. But it is technically correct.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:39:37 +0000

Amen! Women seem to insist upon civilized urination.

By: PoodleGroomer

PoodleGroomer — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:44:38 +0000

No they were XL and fit over the 12-16 lb messy diaper I changed out of that machine. If they were any good, I wouldn’t be changing diapers.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:14:46 +0000

accidently hit the “inject comment” button too early. anyway, that spanish phrase is a litteral translation of “it’s raining cats and dogs.” If you said that to a spanish speaker he’d think you were crazy.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:11:29 +0000

You raise a very good point about how word for word translations can be ineffective at getting the point across. For example, if you said to someone who only speaks Spanish “llueve gatos y perro

By: buckinarut

buckinarut — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:18:48 +0000

Do you put’em over those funny cotton things in the vending machine over there?

By: buckinarut

buckinarut — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:17:25 +0000

If somebody goes to sleep on the toilet long enough, then circulation to the lower extremities will be cut off.
*can’t feel my legs*

By: buckinarut

buckinarut — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:14:53 +0000

Betcha it won’t be for long… one fellow who forgets to put the seat up before beginning or one fellow who forgets to put the seat down after finishing is all it would take for the ladies to request a ladies room to be built.

By: Czernobog

Czernobog — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:21:27 +0000

You’re a moron. Die.

By: Rick

Rick — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:48:29 +0000

ONE VISION! ……(Queen circa 1985)

By: LeonimuZ

LeonimuZ — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:30:45 +0000

This is not the problem…it’s a unisex bath. ONE PLACE!

By: Huey

Huey — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 07:21:25 +0000

This translation is actually correct; it really does say “one place, one dream”.

By: Lllll.

Lllll. — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:53:34 +0000

…’These hands, this knife, that ass’…

By: Droll not Troll

Droll not Troll — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:39:30 +0000

If there’s only one place, nobody better be sleeping/dreaming in there! *crosses legs*

By: robowarrior

robowarrior — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:00:27 +0000

ONE MAN, ONE MISSION, ONE PLACE, ONE DREAM

By: PoodleGroomer

PoodleGroomer — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:38:43 +0000

The smooth hard surfaces make for great resonance when they get going. Hearing protection is available outside.

By: Enginese

Enginese — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:06:54 +0000

Oops sorry no. Either it was translated into odd Japanese, or maybe into Chinese. Was this sign seen at a ramen joint or a lomin site?