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Tuesday Evening Open Thread

by Betty Cracker|  February 10, 20157:53 pm| 115 Comments

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My sister the world traveler encountered this scrappy crustacean in a toilet in the South Pacific:

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It was flushed three times (not by my sister) and kept reappearing. The persistent little crab was reported to the hotel manager, who was sanguine about toilet crustaceans but horrified by the possibility it would be Facebooked.

I once unwittingly sat on a toilet containing a Cuban tree frog. Have you ever found a crab, frog or other unexpected creature in the pot?

Feel free to discuss other topics. Open thread.

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  1. 1.

    kc

    February 10, 2015 at 7:56 pm

    I WILL NEVER USE THE TOILET AGAIN.

  2. 2.

    Quaker in a Basement

    February 10, 2015 at 7:57 pm

    I advise against cooking him.

  3. 3.

    Amir Khalid

    February 10, 2015 at 7:58 pm

    No. But there was this one time I couldn’t put my foot in my sneaker. When I gave up and put the sneaker down, a frog jumped out.

    As for your sister’s encounter in the toilet, where in the South Pacific did it happen?

  4. 4.

    kc

    February 10, 2015 at 7:59 pm

    Oh HELL NO

  5. 5.

    The Dangerman

    February 10, 2015 at 7:59 pm

    Manson’s fiance wanted his corpse for a display.

    Jeb releases emails with private information.

    Crabs in crappers.

    This day can’t get any more weird. Can it?

  6. 6.

    Iowa Old Lady

    February 10, 2015 at 7:59 pm

    Jesus Christ.

  7. 7.

    raven

    February 10, 2015 at 7:59 pm

    It’s like tryin to reason with hurricane season. . .

  8. 8.

    Buddy H

    February 10, 2015 at 8:00 pm

    About twenty years ago, a few days before Easter, I was at work. I went to the men’s room and a Peep was floating in the toilet.

    Ever since that day, I have not eaten a single peep. Simply can’t bring myself to do it.

    By the way, they float very nicely, like little yellow boats.

  9. 9.

    jl

    February 10, 2015 at 8:00 pm

    Thnx for cute pet pic.

    Cole better be able to top this.

    Edit: but don’t let it hurt the hedgehog!

  10. 10.

    kc

    February 10, 2015 at 8:00 pm

    NONONONONONONONO

  11. 11.

    dedc79

    February 10, 2015 at 8:01 pm

    I hope they at least gave that crab its freedom. It earned that much.

  12. 12.

    Iowa Old Lady

    February 10, 2015 at 8:02 pm

    @Buddy H: Was it one of the ducky peeps?

    ETA: Oh wait, they’re chicks, aren’t they? Or once in a while, bunnies. They’re all vile.

  13. 13.

    ultraviolet thunder

    February 10, 2015 at 8:02 pm

    That’s an alarming toilet crustacean.
    I found a scorpion under a hotel desk in Mexico. At least I think it was a scorpion. I was moving so fast an instant later that it was Dopplering into the infrared.

    My wife found a snail last week on a bunch of Brussels sprouts. She named it Blaze and keeps it in a jar. They grow fast on celery tops and spinach leaves.

  14. 14.

    Betty Cracker

    February 10, 2015 at 8:02 pm

    @Amir Khalid: Fiji. She had a good time, toilet crabs notwithstanding!

  15. 15.

    kc

    February 10, 2015 at 8:03 pm

    NNNNOOOOOOOOOO

    *curls up in fetal position*

  16. 16.

    Pogonip

    February 10, 2015 at 8:03 pm

    Found a rat in the toilet once in Chicago (I’m told they swim up through the pipes). That was exciting. I live in a biggish town now but it has never happened again, thank God.

  17. 17.

    Elizabelle

    February 10, 2015 at 8:03 pm

    Jon Stewart leaving later this year.

    Brian Williams suspended from NBC for six months without pay.

    NYTimes:

    Lester Holt will continue to substitute for Mr. Williams now, but finding a permanent successor will be a major problem for the network, which was not anticipating having to replace the anchor of its “Nightly News’’ broadcast for some time. In December, Mr. Williams signed a new five-year contract reported to be worth $10 million a year.

  18. 18.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    February 10, 2015 at 8:03 pm

    Wasp, and it stung me. Surprising, painful.

  19. 19.

    kc

    February 10, 2015 at 8:04 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    Fiji. I always wanted to go there. Before today.

  20. 20.

    Mike in NC

    February 10, 2015 at 8:04 pm

    Brian Williams suspended 6 months w/o pay. As if he needed the money.

    ETA – Elizabelle beat me by 45 seconds.

  21. 21.

    kc

    February 10, 2015 at 8:04 pm

    @Pogonip:

    Oh, sweet Jesus, NO.

    I’m never leaving my HOUSE again.

  22. 22.

    kc

    February 10, 2015 at 8:05 pm

    Seriously, how does a crab get in a toilet? Do the sewer pipes discharge right into the sea?

  23. 23.

    Mike E

    February 10, 2015 at 8:05 pm

    It’s probably there for the “sangria”.

  24. 24.

    Warren Terra

    February 10, 2015 at 8:06 pm

    I once unwittingly sat on a toilet containing a Cuban tree frog.

    This sounds like one of the CIA plots to kill Castro, along with poisoned cigars and booby-trapped conch shells.

  25. 25.

    Iowa Old Lady

    February 10, 2015 at 8:06 pm

    @Just Some Fuckhead: The wasp was in the toilet? Holy crap.

  26. 26.

    Napoleon

    February 10, 2015 at 8:06 pm

    Jon Stewart is leaving the Daily Show

  27. 27.

    Mike E

    February 10, 2015 at 8:07 pm

    @Elizabelle: Good on Lester, he’s a Philly guy…take that, Jersey!

  28. 28.

    Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)

    February 10, 2015 at 8:07 pm

    That’s the worst case of crabs I’ve ever seen.

  29. 29.

    Mike in NC

    February 10, 2015 at 8:07 pm

    @Elizabelle: Why not consider Jon Stewart to sub for Brian, considering what a farce network news is these days?

  30. 30.

    raven

    February 10, 2015 at 8:08 pm

    I had a tick on my unit once.

  31. 31.

    Pogonip

    February 10, 2015 at 8:08 pm

    @ultraviolet thunder: My brother was stung by a scorpion at Fort Hood and said it wasn’t much worse than a wasp sting. I have been told that big scary scorpions aren’t too dangerous, it’s the little ones that can put you in the hospital.

    My brother is a Scorpio, we always thought the scorpion should have given him a pass out of professional courtesy.

  32. 32.

    Amir Khalid

    February 10, 2015 at 8:09 pm

    @Elizabelle:
    John Cole promised us it would all be forgotten in a few days. I am disappoint.

  33. 33.

    Betty Cracker

    February 10, 2015 at 8:09 pm

    @kc: I guess it’s an individual thing; I would definitely make sure the crab was gone before alighting, but the idea of a crab in the pot per se doesn’t freak me out. Now snakes coming up the toilet or dropping out of faucets — that freaks me right the fuck out. And a rat, heaven forfend.

  34. 34.

    Warren Terra

    February 10, 2015 at 8:09 pm

    @kc:

    Seriously, how does a crab get in a toilet? Do the sewer pipes discharge right into the sea?

    I’d hardly be surprised if they did. Famously, Victoria, BC discharges its sewer waste (untreated, save for removing the largest solids) less than a mile offshore (and into the Strait of Juan de Fuca, not even into the open ocean) – and I’d rather think the capital city of British Columbia is likely to have rather more rigurous regulation and a LOT more money for infrastructure than anyplace in Fiji, and a lovely resort hotel is likely to be well away from centers of infrastructure development.

  35. 35.

    buddy h

    February 10, 2015 at 8:10 pm

    I’m not sure what’s going on with the Downton Abbey dog. Last episode, she was just lying there. At first I thought Thomas fed her one of his anti-geh pills (after all, he did lock her in a shed once) but now I don’t know.

  36. 36.

    Josie

    February 10, 2015 at 8:11 pm

    Betty: Do large cockroaches count?

  37. 37.

    buddy h

    February 10, 2015 at 8:11 pm

    @Iowa Old Lady: I had completely forgotten about until last year, when I saw a package of them at my supermarket checkout. Then the memory came flooding back.

  38. 38.

    jharp

    February 10, 2015 at 8:11 pm

    I suspect I caught scabies from a toilet seat circa 1979 whilst in college.

    Itchingest experience of my life.

  39. 39.

    raven

    February 10, 2015 at 8:11 pm

    @Josie: I have a friend that had one way down in his ear and it was NOT fun getting it out.

  40. 40.

    Pogonip

    February 10, 2015 at 8:12 pm

    @Betty Cracker: I’m not a screamer–damaged vocal cords, for one thing–but on that occasion I managed a pretty decent shriek.

  41. 41.

    TaMara (BHF)

    February 10, 2015 at 8:12 pm

    @Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant): 28 comments in before someone said that and you beat me to it by moments.

    Black widow in my sneaker. I felt the web first (they are distinctive), ran screaming from the room. Scared the crap out of the dogs. Immediately called my husband (now ex) at work to come home and fix it.

    I’m a little unnerved by the little devils. Though fine with other spiders.

  42. 42.

    raven

    February 10, 2015 at 8:13 pm

    @Iowa Old Lady: Jesus’s son. Iowa City in the 70’s. I loved it but I sort of lived it in Champaign-Urbana.

  43. 43.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 10, 2015 at 8:13 pm

    @Buddy H:

    By the way, they [Peeps] float very nicely, like little yellow boats.

    They also put on a hella production of Romeo and Juliet (yes, I have posted this before. It’s an Easter tradition, so you’ll get it again in April.)

    http://www.theplainjane.com/peep_plays/rj_scene01.html

  44. 44.

    Pogonip

    February 10, 2015 at 8:13 pm

    @Josie: No, and their spelling is atrocious.

  45. 45.

    jharp

    February 10, 2015 at 8:13 pm

    How about bedbugs?

    Anyone had the misfortune?

  46. 46.

    gogol's wife

    February 10, 2015 at 8:14 pm

    @buddy h:

    The commenters on the New York Times blog were speculating that she had to be written out because of her name (Isis). This was debunked by other commenters. I must say I’m not happy about it. Kill off any people you want, but keep the dog.

    I have no idea why I’m reading this alarming thread.

  47. 47.

    David Koch

    February 10, 2015 at 8:14 pm

    Poor Jon Stewart – working a couple hours a day, 4 days a week, with 8 weeks vacation, at age 51 was just toooooo much for him.

  48. 48.

    JPL

    February 10, 2015 at 8:14 pm

    @buddy h: Isis is old. I do hate the thought that Isis might die though.

  49. 49.

    Josie

    February 10, 2015 at 8:16 pm

    @raven: This one was about as big as my ear. Believe me, I checked carefully all around the rim after that.

  50. 50.

    PurpleGirl

    February 10, 2015 at 8:16 pm

    @Iowa Old Lady: It’s fun to “cook” them in a microwave oven. They sort of melt and burn at the same time. Modern sculpture.

  51. 51.

    ThresherK

    February 10, 2015 at 8:16 pm

    IamnevergoingsouthofCapeMayagain,IamnevergoingsouthofCapeMayagain,IamnevergoingsouthofCapeMayagain.

  52. 52.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 10, 2015 at 8:16 pm

    @Mike in NC:

    What a perfect solution that would be! It’ll never happen, of course, because it makes too much sense.

  53. 53.

    Elizabelle

    February 10, 2015 at 8:16 pm

    @Mike E: I wish they’d make Lester Holt the nightly anchor. He’s good, and trustworthy.

    @Mike in NC: Network news is a farce, and people don’t read good newspapers enough. I am seriously worried about Stewart leaving before a major election year. Although perhaps someone or someones even better will fill that gap.

  54. 54.

    Pogonip

    February 10, 2015 at 8:16 pm

    @jharp: No, thank God. I know a lady who got them from a visiting teenager’s backpack. They’re expensive to treat and tons of work–everything washable has to be laundered in hot water and run through a hot dryer, or dry cleaned, then sealed in plastic bags.

  55. 55.

    Josie

    February 10, 2015 at 8:17 pm

    @Pogonip: Okay – I actually laughed out loud at that. Of course, I am easily amused.

  56. 56.

    ultraviolet thunder

    February 10, 2015 at 8:17 pm

    @jharp:

    How about bedbugs?

    Anyone had the misfortune?

    I’d ought to have, staying in hotels 150+ nights a year. But nope. I stay in decent places 99% of the time but you never know.
    I suspect bedbugs are overhyped by the media.

  57. 57.

    buddy h

    February 10, 2015 at 8:17 pm

    @jharp: Not yet, but I live in constant fear.

    I suspected something was biting me a few months ago. My wife put some new sheets on that she’d had in storage. I took 90% rubbing alcohol and wiped it all around the bed frame. I even put dryer sheets under the mattress (not sure if that’s an old wives’ tale). I haven’t had any more bites, so maybe I scared them away.

    I can’t seem to find food-grade diatonacous earth. They say that kills them.

  58. 58.

    Iowa Old Lady

    February 10, 2015 at 8:18 pm

    @raven: Iowa City is one of the better places around here.

    @PurpleGirl: I feel a little sick.

  59. 59.

    Loneoak

    February 10, 2015 at 8:19 pm

    So how do we get the Daily Show with DougJ?

  60. 60.

    Elizabelle

    February 10, 2015 at 8:19 pm

    @gogol’s wife: Haven’t kept up with Downton Abbey, but perhaps Isis is being naturally aged out, since she would be getting old. Perchance there shall be another dog o the manor.

  61. 61.

    raven

    February 10, 2015 at 8:19 pm

    @JPL: Fuckers better not do that. Take that down in the mouth Edith, PLEASE, take her.

  62. 62.

    Betty Cracker

    February 10, 2015 at 8:19 pm

    @buddy h: They’re going to kill her off, I bet, and that sucks because she is by far the most admirable and intelligent character on the show. But she’s got to be pretty old, right? I mean in Downton years?

    @raven: Oh. My. God!

    @Josie: I’m not sure that’s rare enough to count as unexpected, at least in these parts! But I’m sure it was horrifying nonetheless.

  63. 63.

    Mike in NC

    February 10, 2015 at 8:19 pm

    @Betty Cracker: Would love to hear Samuel Jackson say, “I’m tired of these motherbleeping crabs in this motherbleeping bathroom!”

  64. 64.

    raven

    February 10, 2015 at 8:20 pm

    @Iowa Old Lady: Well, you should watch it then!

  65. 65.

    raven

    February 10, 2015 at 8:20 pm

    @Betty Cracker: Wish they had asked me that during jury selection.

  66. 66.

    Loneoak

    February 10, 2015 at 8:20 pm

    @buddy h: Look in garden stores for diatomaceous earth. “Food grade” doesn’t matter for what you want. I’ve successfully used the garden stuff to de-flea my dog and carpets multiple times.

  67. 67.

    JPL

    February 10, 2015 at 8:21 pm

    The master bath in my old house was on the third floor because of a walk out basement. While taking a shower one time, I noticed a Chameleon sticking his head out of the drain. I really did mean to tell the spouse at the time but forgot. Long story short, the next morning there were shrieks.

  68. 68.

    JPL

    February 10, 2015 at 8:24 pm

    Another bathroom story might be from “Billy Bathgate” Although my memory is fuzzy it seems there was as story about lightening striking and the electrical shock coming up through the toilet.

  69. 69.

    Roger Moore

    February 10, 2015 at 8:24 pm

    @The Dangerman:

    This day can’t get any more weird. Can it?

    I’m sure it can; I just don’t want to find out how.

  70. 70.

    Betty Cracker

    February 10, 2015 at 8:24 pm

    @buddy h: Have you looked online? My hubby swears by that stuff. It keeps our chickens debugged.

  71. 71.

    buddy h

    February 10, 2015 at 8:25 pm

    @Loneoak: I saw some non-food-grade diatomaceous earth in a hardware store, but I read the fine print, and it seemed rather unsafe to put around my bed. “do not breathe fumes, keep aways from pets” etc.

    so the garden version of diatomaceous is safe? Maybe the hardware brand I saw was for industrial use or something. I didn’t buy it because I don’t want to kill our cat, or ourselves.

    But I think if I ever got bedbugs, I’d go insane.

  72. 72.

    gogol's wife

    February 10, 2015 at 8:25 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    Some people at the NYT blog were claiming that there was initially a different dog, Pharoah, but I have no recollection of that. If Isis is the same dog, she’d be at least 12 years old.

  73. 73.

    Another Holocene Human

    February 10, 2015 at 8:26 pm

    @Warren Terra: Nobody in BC wants to pay any taxes, that’s why their infrastructure is for shit. If Alberta is Texas North then BC is Florida North, beautiful weather but stuck on stupid.

  74. 74.

    jharp

    February 10, 2015 at 8:27 pm

    @ultraviolet thunder:

    Bedbugs can be in nice hotels too. Not naming names but know of two.

    The bedbugs are out there. Myself and two friends can attest to 3 encounters.

    And we’re pretty highly functioning people.

  75. 75.

    Another Holocene Human

    February 10, 2015 at 8:27 pm

    I’ve never heard a populace whine so much about taxes in my fucking life and I lived in Massachusetts during the “tax revolts” (disingenuous at best).

  76. 76.

    buddy h

    February 10, 2015 at 8:28 pm

    @Betty Cracker: “They’re going to kill her off, I bet, and that sucks because she is by far the most admirable and intelligent character on the show. But she’s got to be pretty old, right? I mean in Downton years?”

    I agree. My wife chuckles at the beginning of every episode, because she remembers the one time I stood up, turned my back to her, then grinned over my shoulder, imitating Isis in the opening credits.

    It’s funny how Lord Grantham always thinks of her first, before the rest of the family. When that art expert was making moves on his wife, he was more outraged that he was flirting with the dog.

  77. 77.

    ultraviolet thunder

    February 10, 2015 at 8:28 pm

    Not sure how I feel about Jon Stewart. When a very popular news and satire program takes a lot of its material from news programs we have a big problem and a comedian isn’t going to solve it. More and better news is a preferable solution.
    It will be interesting to see what he does next. I’m hoping for documentary films.

  78. 78.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    February 10, 2015 at 8:29 pm

    Everyone here already heard the story of my face-to-face encounter with a black widow spider that woke my poor husband up out of a sound sleep. Apparently a spider the size of my thumbnail is considered “small.” Fuckers.

    I don’t think I would have been super freaked out by a crab, though I’m not fond of them (too spider-like). Scoop it out and toss it outside.

  79. 79.

    jharp

    February 10, 2015 at 8:31 pm

    @buddy h:

    Wasting your time with rubbing alcohol.

    Do an extremely thorough search to start. And the bites are the key. If you are getting bitten keep on it.

  80. 80.

    RSA

    February 10, 2015 at 8:32 pm

    Superb mise en place, especially ironic if that’s a scavenger species of crab.

  81. 81.

    Roger Moore

    February 10, 2015 at 8:34 pm

    @buddy h:

    I can’t seem to find food-grade diatonacous earth.

    Try spelling it “diatomaceous” instead. You can buy it from Amazon.

  82. 82.

    qwerty42

    February 10, 2015 at 8:36 pm

    Well, a friend had a rat try to come out of one. She blocked the door with a brick. And then there was this reported in Jezebel. And there was the scorpion in one of my bedroom slippers — the scorpions here have a sting more like a bee’s, not like some of those others. I thought there was a stone in the slipper — a sharp one, but I did have a sock on.

  83. 83.

    buddy h

    February 10, 2015 at 8:36 pm

    @Roger Moore: Yeah, I knew I was misspelling it when I wrote it. I have the proper spelling in a note in my winter coat. None of the local stores carry it. I’ll probably go the amazon route.

  84. 84.

    jl

    February 10, 2015 at 8:37 pm

    Thanks for link and dire warning about Cuban tree frogs.

    Is there a Cuban tree frog ass-protector if they try to jump out of the bowl and attach themselves?

    Has Cuba been covertly waging Cuban-tree-frog-war against us, while we were wasting our time worrying about stupid internet attacks, and our new Cuban policy is really a surrender?? (thanks, Obama!!)

  85. 85.

    Betty Cracker

    February 10, 2015 at 8:39 pm

    RE: The Daily Show and Stewart’s departure, SAMANTHA BEE! That is all.

  86. 86.

    JPL

    February 10, 2015 at 8:42 pm

    @Betty Cracker: I actually find the timing of Jon Stewart’s departure and Brian Williams hiatus interesting. NBC wooed Stewart before. just sayin

  87. 87.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    February 10, 2015 at 8:45 pm

    Open thread material: pronunciations of assorted shibboleth names:

    John Cowper Powys (cooper poh-iss)

    Marcel Proust (proost)

    Ayn Rand (well-fare recipient)

    I nearly hurt myself laughing.

    Did you get seated raven? We understand you’re limited to Y/N until the conclusion of the case.

  88. 88.

    dr. luba

    February 10, 2015 at 8:46 pm

    Little lizards/chameleons are pretty much standard in showers in the tropics. You see them all the time.

    When I was in the DR visiting a friend in the Peace Corps, I stayed at a house with quite the fancy outhouse. Nice curtained door, carpeting, proper toilet seat, the works. And something fuzzy that tickled my bottom. I strongly suspect it was a tarantula (they are harmless but scary looking), but didn’t look….

  89. 89.

    beth

    February 10, 2015 at 8:46 pm

    I have a friend whose clothes dryer stopped working. They pulled it out from the wall and found a dead 6 ft long snake clogging up the lint duct.

  90. 90.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 10, 2015 at 8:56 pm

    @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):

    You will likely enjoy this:

    http://gloucesterclam.com/2015/02/10/ayn-rand-dead-in-gloucester-snowstorm/

  91. 91.

    Botsplainer

    February 10, 2015 at 9:17 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    In December, Mr. Williams signed a new five-year contract reported to be worth $10 million a year.

    Think how many real life journalists could have been hired were he to give up 60% of that.

  92. 92.

    burnspbesq

    February 10, 2015 at 9:22 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    Glad to see you posting. Was afraid the shock of seeing Balotelli score (a critical match-winning goal, no less) might have killed you.

  93. 93.

    Elizabelle

    February 10, 2015 at 9:25 pm

    @Botsplainer: Yeah. The networks might do better if it wasn’t all “high paid” talent laughing it up with those they’re supposed to be covering.

    Does the BBC do this? Other respected news broadcasts around the world?

  94. 94.

    Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)

    February 10, 2015 at 9:26 pm

    When I lived in Honduras, I came home one night, after being out drinking beer with my friends, and found a bat in the toilet. I got an old ceiling fan blade out of the tool closet, and lifted the little guy or girl out of the toilet and put it out onto the grass next to the house.

  95. 95.

    Mnemosyne (iPad Mini)

    February 10, 2015 at 9:36 pm

    @jl:

    IIRC, Betty is in fact Queen of the Tree Frogs but refuses to accept the crown. They appear from all over to pay tribute to her and can’t understand why she keeps running and screaming.

    (See if you can Google to find the story of the time a frog attached itself to her boob. It’s a classic.)

  96. 96.

    Fort Geek

    February 10, 2015 at 9:42 pm

    Not in a toilet, but in 2011 I bought an in-window air conditioner. Within a month, some little red-eyed tree frog moved into the outside half of the unit and croaked at me at random times of the day or night, almost always when I was trying to sleep.

    LOUD little bastard. Nothing I did would make him leave or stop, including me pouring lemon juice on him.

    I take the AC unit down in winter; for 2012, before setting it up I opened the cabinet and put 1/4″ carpenter’s mesh over all the openings. Problem solved!

  97. 97.

    opiejeanne

    February 10, 2015 at 9:47 pm

    @Mnemosyne (iPad Mini): it’s part of the letter at the link she posted.

  98. 98.

    Fort Geek

    February 10, 2015 at 9:55 pm

    @buddy h: Lowe’s sells it in the pesticide department.

  99. 99.

    Cervantes

    February 10, 2015 at 10:04 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    Is she still in Fiji? Headed there soon for a break, after a break in South-east Asia and another break in Australia.

    Break from the snow, that is.

  100. 100.

    Lymie

    February 10, 2015 at 10:06 pm

    For our Australia friends, this was in play when I was an exchange student (OK, my dad was on sabbatical, even harder to explain)

    Since I can’t post links google red back on the toilet seat

    random is my mo

  101. 101.

    Monkeyfister

    February 10, 2015 at 10:15 pm

    While working at Interlochen Academy for the Arts, I found a chipmunk in the pot. Half frozen, half drowned, I fished the little fella out of his drink of doom, wrapped him in some clean shop rags, and warmed him in the sun.

    He revived, and hung out at the Scene Shop all Summer long.

  102. 102.

    PaulW

    February 10, 2015 at 10:22 pm

    Blog flog: my take on the whole Brian Williams scandal and the real scandal there… the failure of accountability of journalism as a profession.

  103. 103.

    PaulW

    February 10, 2015 at 10:23 pm

    @Monkeyfister:
    YAY!

  104. 104.

    PaulW

    February 10, 2015 at 10:26 pm

    @David Koch:

    Poor Jon Stewart – working a couple hours a day, 4 days a week, with 8 weeks vacation, at age 51 was just toooooo much for him.

    There’s only so much bullsh-t you can shovel in a lifetime, and nobody should be forced to watch Fox Not-News forever…

  105. 105.

    kuvasz

    February 10, 2015 at 10:38 pm

    Pffft. I’ve had rats crawl up my toilet bowl.

  106. 106.

    TriassicSands

    February 10, 2015 at 10:59 pm

    Rats. And lots of ’em. Who knew that my toilet bowl would be a vacation destination for rats?

  107. 107.

    Betty Cracker

    February 11, 2015 at 3:57 am

    @Cervantes: She is home now. She had good things to say about Fiji, though. Have fun!

  108. 108.

    terben

    February 11, 2015 at 4:43 am

    @Lymie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDAiq2-xeU

  109. 109.

    Chris T.

    February 11, 2015 at 5:14 am

    Bonvolu alsendi la pordiston? Lausajne estas rano en mia bideo!
    Could you please send for the hall porter? There appears to be a frog in my bidet!

  110. 110.

    sm*t cl*de

    February 11, 2015 at 5:38 am

    I once unwittingly sat on a toilet containing a Cuban tree frog.

    You seem to be assuming that the tree frog was there before your crap.

  111. 111.

    sm*t cl*de

    February 11, 2015 at 5:43 am

    Look in garden stores for diatomaceous earth

    Just tell them you’re making your own dynamite.

  112. 112.

    maurinsky

    February 11, 2015 at 6:38 am

    Have you ever found a crab, frog or other unexpected creature in the pot?

    Only in my nightmares.

  113. 113.

    Paul in KY

    February 11, 2015 at 9:37 am

    Couldn’t they have fished the poor thing out of the commode & chucked it outside?

  114. 114.

    Paul in KY

    February 11, 2015 at 9:40 am

    @Pogonip: My parents had them. What a fucked up, terrible experience.

  115. 115.

    S-Curve

    February 11, 2015 at 11:09 am

    During a 3am visit to our bathroom one night, my wife discovered a small white frog on the toilet seat. When it jumped at her. Wife’s heart rate is still elevated months later.

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