TP or not TP

From BoingBoing, a lovely little bit about Victorian toilet paper:

Item of the Month, November 2010: A Victorian Paper Trail from the Wellcome Library in London.

Lately when I think of toilet paper* it brings to mind a throwaway line from The Satanic Verses (which I haven't read past the first chapter because it was a library book and whoever had read it before me had left long stringy hairs sprinkled throughout); one of the character's mothers says something about England and questions how her son will keep clean because "they wipe their bottoms with paper there." Heh. Depending on the day, I have to agree.



^{*What? Don't you think about it, too?}

Momentous Advances in t.p.

Image: Toilet Paper Cardboard Tubes ~ 4 of 9 photos, a Creative Commons
Attribution No-Derivative-Works (2.0) image from urbanwoodswalker's photostream

Today's Momentous Advance comes from American Libraries* and this little article:

No Roll Needed


^{*The magazine of the American Library Association, for those of you not in the know! Obviously where you'd expect to find all your t.p. information. (We can find info on anything, okay?)}

Hey, Sheryl Crow!

From my cold, dead hands!

You should seriously rethink your stupid-ass statement.

Perhaps all that highlighting shit seeped through your skull and curdled up your brain. If you get your wish that all people should use one square of toilet paper (two or three in those emergency situations doesn't fucking cut it, not when an average UC emergency is a bucket load more than you may be used to), you better tack on a damn good alternative for those of us who don't poop like environmentalists aresupposedto.

I think that global warming is REALLY caused by the excessive brightness reflecting off your lovely golden tresses; the ice caps will continue to melt unless you put a hat on.


Pic attributed to Patapat - Link