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Gadget toilet made for modern kings and queens (Roto-Rooter's 'Pimped Out John')
Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 2/8/07 | Reuters

Posted on 02/08/2007 9:56:04 AM PST by NormsRevenge

SINGAPORE, Feb 7 (Reuters Life!) - Think you deserve a throne? A U.S. plumbing firm has created a luxury toilet equipped with laptop computer and flat-screen TV which it plans to give away in an online sweepstake.

Ohio-based Roto-Rooter says its "Pimped Out John" is designed to "fulfill all your wildest bathroom dreams." Special features include an iPod music player and speakers, an Xbox video game console, a refrigerator filled with drinks and snacks and a cycling exercise machine.

"The bathroom is the perfect place for your very own throne. It shouldn't always be regarded as the room of last resort," said Steven Pollyea, Roto-Rooter vice president of marketing, in a press release emailed to Reuters.

"The average person spends 11,862 hours in the bathroom, which equals one year, four months and five days in a lifetime... a toilet should be the most wonderful location in your home."

Roto-Rooter spokesman Paul Abrams said the firm spent about $5,000 on parts and components to customize the toilet.

Any resident of the United States could win this "gleaming monument to personal convenience" by entering the sweepstake at www.rotorooter.com before April 2.

You might never want to leave your bathroom again.


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Humor; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: freepun; gadget; rotorooter; toilet

Roto-Rooter's 'Pimped Out John' in an undated handout photo. Roto-Rooter says its 'Pimped Out John' is designed to 'fulfill all your wildest bathroom dreams'. Special features include an iPod music player and speakers, an Xbox video game console, a refrigerator filled with drinks and snacks and a cycling exercise machine. (Roto-Rooter/Handout/Reuters)


1 posted on 02/08/2007 9:56:08 AM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: Junior

A throne fit for a king ping.


2 posted on 02/08/2007 9:58:24 AM PST by cjshapi (Proudly posting without a tagline since 2001)
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To: NormsRevenge

3 posted on 02/08/2007 10:02:03 AM PST by mom4kittys (If velvet could sing, it would sound like Josh Groban)
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To: NormsRevenge
an Xbox video game console

A 'Wii' would have been more appropriate, no?

4 posted on 02/08/2007 10:10:22 AM PST by atomicpossum (Replies must follow approved guidelines or you will be kill-filed without appeal.)
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To: mom4kittys

LOL.. Cute!


5 posted on 02/08/2007 10:11:41 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ......)
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To: cjshapi
Thanks. I posted the same article at DC, then went out and registered for the drawing.

I'm waiting for a pimped-out LaZ-Boy, though.

6 posted on 02/08/2007 10:23:43 AM PST by Junior (Losing faith in humanity one person at a time.)
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To: NormsRevenge

My legs just fell asleep


7 posted on 02/08/2007 10:24:51 AM PST by the_devils_advocate_666
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To: NormsRevenge

Drinks and snacks?

No thanks.


8 posted on 02/08/2007 10:48:46 AM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: NormsRevenge

Roto-Reuters had to report on this one.


9 posted on 02/08/2007 10:50:06 AM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: atomicpossum
A 'Wii' would have been more appropriate, no?


10 posted on 02/08/2007 10:58:29 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Res firma mitescere nescit)
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To: NormsRevenge

Gee, why not just install a toilet in your living room and be done with it?


11 posted on 09/11/2008 12:08:38 AM PDT by Silly (PalinLove.com)
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