Great Moments in Toilet Paper History

ABC News ^ | 2003 | Buck Wolf

[bedolido]

[Support Free Republic]

A Recall AND a Fundraiser? I'm toast.

Let's get this over with FAST. Please contribute!

[chance33_98]

Early American settlers used everything from leaves to corncobs to wipe their bottoms,

They still use one of those in Frisco...

[Tribune7]

1995: The Great Toilet Paper Caper — A Philadelphia city employee is charged with stealing $34,000 worth of toilet paper from Veterans Stadium just before an Eagles football game. The accused, Ricardo Jefferson, was fired. City spokesman Tony Radwanski said, "We don't really know how long this was going on. We only looked at a 10-month period from October 1994 to August 1995, but man, he really wiped that stadium clean."

PIng

[Chewbacca]

Fold it. Brown one side and turn it over.

[theDentist]

"I already suggested a Hall of Fame!"

[LiteKeeper]

SITREP

[mountaineer]

What? No mention of TPing our neighbors' trees? How many of us got through high school without doing this at least once?

[mewzilla]

[bedolido]

What? No mention of TPing our neighbors' trees? How many of us got through high school without doing this at least once?

We lived in the country and used to TP our country school teachers house. Problem was we didn't have toilet paper... all we had was corn-cobbs. By the time we were done with her house, ever window was broken and her dog was close to death.

[dts32041]

I thought this was the Mouse talking about buffalo soliders and I don't mean the 9th and 1oth Cav Regiments.

[r9etb]

1391: The King's Pleasure — Chinese emperors begin ordering toilet paper in sheets measuring 2 feet by 3 feet.

The mind boggles -- were their butts really that big?

[Chancellor Palpatine]

My wife's is....

[SamAdams76]

You never realize how important toilet paper is in your life until you go without it. I still remember a camping trip I took to Maine about 10 years back and having forgotten toilet paper. Wiping yourself with leaves and twigs is no fun. How did the human race manage for thousands of years without it?

[bedolido]

The mind boggles -- were their butts really that big?

Maybe they wore them like a garmet.

Still doesn't answer the big question though... How did they keep their sheets together?

[HEY4QDEMS]

I always keep plenty of coffee filters on hand just in case I run out of TP.

[bedolido]

Wiping yourself with leaves and twigs is no fun.

note to self. Learn how to spot Poison Oak.

[bedolido]

I always keep plenty of coffee filters on hand just in case I run out of TP

Hope you don't work for StarBucks

[r9etb]

No kidding: Even as we're on the topic of 2x3 foot toilet paper, I got the following message on a different list:

I couldn't let the day pass without observing the 170th anniversary of Keble's preaching the Assize Day sermon in the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford....

Proof that the Good Lord is listening, and he's got a sense of humor.... ;-)

[ArrogantBustard]

Wiping yourself with leaves and twigs is no fun.

Concur. I've observed, however, that our friends of the gentler sex have a problem which is even more repulsive to deal with under 'primitive' conditions ...

Note to married men: If you go camping with your wife or teenage daughter(s) make darn sure to bring sufficient TP. They will forget at the most inopportune times.