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'Toilet paper capital of world' prepares for exhibition
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| Story filed: 21:17 Thursday 18th April 2002
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Posted on 04/22/2002 11:11:13 AM PDT by vannrox
'Toilet paper capital of world' prepares for exhibition
A museum in Wisconsin is preparing to open an exhibition charting the history of the toilet and toilet paper.
Privy To The Past: Inside America's Most Private Room has a replica of a sponge ancient Romans used to share.
Green Bay's Neville Museum spokeswoman Marilyn Stasiak says the area is: "The toilet paper capital of the world."
The exhibition tells visitors about how corn cobs, leaves and newspaper came before modern-day toilet paper.
It also shows how toilet paper used to have splinters in it. Ms Stasiak told Ananova: "That would've been very painful."
She added: "We're expecting all kinds of jokes about the exhibition."
Green Bay's Northern Paper Mill is credited with creating modern toilet paper in 1902 but it wasn't until 1935 that toilet paper was advertised as "splinter-free."
The exhibition, which opens on April 27, is sponsored by Georgia Pacific, makers of Quilted Northern Bath Tissue.
TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Books/Literature; Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; History; Hobbies; Humor; Local News; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: pride; strange; toilet; unusual
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posted on
04/22/2002 11:11:13 AM PDT
by
vannrox
To: vannrox
If any Democratic congresscritters go there they will be absorbed.
-Eric
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posted on
04/22/2002 11:19:16 AM PDT
by
E Rocc
To: E Rocc
That comment sounds like a smear job! ;o)
3
posted on
04/22/2002 11:37:11 AM PDT
by
Icthus
To: vannrox
it'a all a buncha crap to me...
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posted on
04/22/2002 11:44:06 AM PDT
by
camle
To: camle
"..it'a all a buncha crap to me..."Boy....we're on a "roll" now!
5
posted on
04/22/2002 12:29:35 PM PDT
by
Icthus
To: Icthus
now don't that stink to high heaven?
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posted on
04/22/2002 12:30:22 PM PDT
by
camle
To: camle
"..now don't that stink to high heaven?.."All the up to the "White Cloud". (I know...I'm really reaching now). :o)
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posted on
04/22/2002 12:32:40 PM PDT
by
Icthus
To: vannrox
Doesn't matter how much paper they have,
one busload of women tourists and they'll run out.
8
posted on
04/22/2002 12:54:17 PM PDT
by
damnlimey
To: Icthus
oh sh!t
9
posted on
04/22/2002 12:59:21 PM PDT
by
camle
To: damnlimey; Sir Gawain; Weikel
Special Guest
To: Texaggie79
With special guest star:Domokun.
To: camle
"Personal Foul"....repeat down.
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posted on
04/22/2002 1:06:56 PM PDT
by
Icthus
To: damnlimey
Call me old fashioned
To: Icthus
repeat down?? as in sitting?
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posted on
04/22/2002 1:19:52 PM PDT
by
camle
To: Texaggie79
Call me old fashioned Just an assumption on my part....but I'm pretty sure the cobs were meant to be used horizontally...not vertically.
Of course that might be a bit more painful if you're in to that sort of thing
To: Texaggie79
I hope you plan on boiling that thing for more than 3 mins.when you're done
To: camle
LOL!
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posted on
04/22/2002 1:21:30 PM PDT
by
Icthus
To: Focault's Pendulum
And everyone always wonders why there's always corn, even though they didn't eat any............
To: Texaggie79
And everyone always wonders why there's always corn, even though they didn't eat any... ......and let's not get into the digestive process.
To: Texaggie79
Corn? I don't see any corn......
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posted on
04/22/2002 1:26:23 PM PDT
by
Icthus
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