In addition to the lady who had to have a toilet seat surgically removed from her ass, there’s a lot of medieval folklore, anthropological evidence and other facts involved here.
Even though Sir Crapp made the toilet famous, Queen Elizabeth I had the first real bathroom. In spite of all this, a room with just a bathtub is not a “bathroom.” The room has to have a toilet in it, and maybe even a sink. Go figure!
Excuse me, but I have to go to the:
Bedpan
Can
Comfort station
Crapper
Facility
Flushing closet
Handsome house.
Head
John
Latrine
Library
Ladies’ room
Lav
Lavatory
Loo
Men’s room
Office
Outhouse
Potty
Powder room
Privie (Old Eng.)
Privy (Mod)
Relieve myself.
Restroom
The necessary
Throne room
Washroom
Water closet
Excuse me, but I have to:
Be excused
Go.
Go to the bathroom
Go to the crapper
Nature calls
Powder my nose (she)
Relieve myself
Take a leak (he)
Take a dump (he)
Take a dump (she)
Tap a kidney
Tap a bladder
Utilize the facility
Bathroom - a room or building equipped with one or more toilets. It interesting to note that a room with only a bath, is NOT considered to be a “bathroom.”
Commode - A plumbing fixture for defecation and urination.
Have fear of flying to the bathroom because you can’t excuse yourself with dignity? Embarrassed? Can’t find the right words? Seriously dude, you’re not alone. Ever since Sir Thomas Crapper introduced the splendid idea of a “wash-down water closet” in a private room, this has been a universal problem. One thing is predictable: Sometime today you’ll be visiting that special place. Moreover, you will exit refreshed, ready to conquer the world. Some call it “the second-best feeling in the world,” but it implants a subconscious love for this facility, the bathroom, and a little later we’ll explain what’s involved in this “love affair.”
Kids can go to the bathroom in the car, some go to the bathroom on their lawn and some even go to the bathroom on a chair. Grownups occasionally can do the same. They go to the bathroom here; go to the bathroom there; but one thing is certain, they will go to the bathroom. Even if it doesn’t have a “bath”, it unmistakably will be in a genuine “bathroom.”
According to the Associated Press (03/13/2008), one poor lady sat on her boyfriend’s toilet for two years. He finally called the police, who rushed her to the nearest emergency room, where the seat was surgically removed. Now there’s bathroom love! No word on the facility favored by the lad. Hopefully, he didn’t “go to the bathroom” in his living room or kitchen for two years. She expected to be joined together in a state of matrimony with her toilet seat, not him. Only a surgeon could put asunder this marriage that was made in Heaven.
How about you? Can’t live without it? At the right time, the bathroom may be the most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen. Idiomatically and practically, literally and figuratively, it is universally needed. A young gentleman at an intimate dinner with his newest lady friend, felt the “go to the bathroom” urge. How best to explain this to her without sounding crude or animalistic? Finally, after sitting uncomfortably for a few minutes he said, “My dear, I have to excuse myself. I have an appointment to shake hands with a good friend, whom I plan to introduce to you very soon.”
All kidding aside, we’re lost without our bathrooms. How did this “love affair” start? Once plumbing and running water became available, our ancestors moved the bathtub into a separate room that afforded a modicum of privacy. While the tub was there, many took advantage of the new contraption made popular by Sir. Thomas Crapper (1861). This enterprising Englishman probably didn’t invent the toilet, but promoted it to such an extent that his name became associated with it. The partnership of the toilet and the bath, in the “bath”room, was a natural movement (so to speak). By the way, Crapper’s company still exists in England, not under the original family ownership, but offering reproductions of the original “wash-down water closet”, similar to Sir Crapper’s. By the way, Crapper wrote a book, Flushed With Pride, not up on the list with Pride and Prejudice, but rather interesting, nonetheless.
