Posted on 07/07/2009 3:45:34 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Since the dawn of time, people have found nifty ways to clean up after the bathroom act. The most common solution was simply to grab what was at hand: coconuts, shells, snow, moss, hay, leaves, grass, corncobs, sheep's wool -- and, later, thanks to the printing press -- newspapers, magazines, and pages of books.
The ancient Greeks used clay and stone; the Romans, sponges and salt water. But the idea of a commercial product designed solely to wipe one's bum? That started about 150 years ago, right here in the U.S.A.
In less than a century, Uncle Sam's marketing genius turned something disposable into something indispensable.
Toilet paper gets on a roll The first products designed specifically to wipe one's nethers were aloe-infused sheets of manila hemp dispensed from Kleenex-like boxes.
They were invented in 1857 by a New York entrepreneur named Joseph Gayetty, who claimed his sheets prevented hemorrhoids. Gayetty was so proud of his therapeutic bathroom paper that he had his name printed on each sheet. But his success was limited.
Americans soon grew accustomed to wiping with the Sears Roebuck catalog, and they saw no need to spend money on something that came in the mail for free.
Toilet paper took its next leap forward in 1890, when two brothers named Clarence and E. Irvin Scott popularized the concept of toilet paper on a roll. The Scotts' brand became more successful than Gayetty's medicated wipes, in part because they built a steady trade selling toilet paper to hotels and drugstores.
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Is that used toilet paper?
Exfoliate, exfoliate, exfoliate.
LOL........it was quite the honor to be papered in this neck of the woods.......LOL
cheap Halloween docor as well.
That's so gayetty.
Bum Guns are popular in Thailand.
It is “B” in my house ! Plus with “B”, you don’t touch the wall where as with “A”, you probably will. Plus pics of out houses, it is “B”.
I wouldn’t wish that even on.... well, maybe I’d consider HIM...
Cruel...still
LOVE IT.
Butt — butt — WHERE’S MICHELLE????
However, might want to use a photo sans the flag when production begins.
ROFLMAO
You folks are THE BEST
A real man picks “B”
I try. (I’ve been told I’m very trying.)
Obviously an A type in post 57
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