[19] in Humor
HUMOR: A great gift idea?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (abennett@MIT.EDU)
Mon Jan 24 15:37:33 1994
From: abennett@MIT.EDU
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 94 15:33:29 EST
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From: ckleinja@Novell.COM (Connie Kleinjans)
From: john_snyder@ccmail.com
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Someone just sent me this:
alt.peeves #30569 (71 + 473 more) [1]
From: cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy)
[1] Just when you think you've seen it all....
Late night TV(*): The ad comes on that is so unbelievable that I keep waiting
for the Energizer Bunny to come on and let me know that it's all a joke.
It didn't happen.
The product in question is called, get this.... "Potty Light(tm)". No, this
is not some low-cal toilet-bowl cleaner. This is a battery-operated box
with a light sensor and a long, ?-shaped piece of fiber-optic plastic on
it. Hang this over the edge of your commode, and when you turn out the
bathroom light, the toilet lights up. Really. No, I'm serious. Honest.
Oh, stop it.
The commercial talks about how much easier it will be to toilet-train little
Tommy or Susie when the commode is lit up. The commercial talks about how
aging, incontinent folks won't have to wake up their spouses by turning on
the bathroom light in the middle of the night when answering nature's call
(this is not my interpretation, they show a gray-haired gentleman turning on
the light and then looking penitently back at his spouse, who is frowning,
turning over irritably, and pulling the covers over her head). The
commercial makes references to "accidents" that can happen because people
*don't* turn on the bathroom light. The commercial informs me about how easy
it is to clean my Potty Light (tm). Just warm, soapy water and a sponge
is all I need. The commercial tells me that (and this just may be the best
part) Potty Light (tm) is a "practical and inexpensive gift".
1) I don't want my commode to glow in the dark, especially if I'm sitting
on it. The imagination bogs a bit at the shadows that would be cast
by the eerie glow spreading up from one's nether regions.
2) I don't want to clean a Potty Light (tm), no matter how quick and easy
it is.
3) The only thing that I can think of that might be worse than receiving a
Potty Light (tm) as a gift would be to be known as a person who actually
*gives* Potty Lights (tm) as gifts.
Idea: What we need is a Potty Light (tm) that will hook up to a Clapper (tm).
Then one could simply head in the direction of the bathroom, clap their
hands, the john would light up, and then you could clap it off once you
were situated.
(*) Apologies to all of you non-USAns who don't have the pleasures of such
marvelous late-night entertainment in the form of this particular
advertisement.
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|Dave Cochran, Data General Corporation, RTP, NC |
|cochran@dg-rtp.dg.com |
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|"Dr. Pavlov's distinguished career came to an |
| abrupt end one day when the doorbell rang and the|
| dog ate the Avon lady." |
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