Update Update

[tbn.al]

"slightly?" C'mon Joe, be honest....................

[bort]

The mall shooting in Maryland happened at a place where I probably went 100 times as a kid, and later as an adult. Really scary to know exactly where something like that happened. People suck.

[Heavy_Metal]

The mall shooting in Maryland happened at a place where I probably went 100 times as a kid, and later as an adult. Really scary to know exactly where something like that happened. People suck.

Only a matter of time before this started happening in places other than Baltimore City.

[bisontuba]

Nice!!
Mark

[MartyNeilan]

The toilet in my new domicile has a very narrow "throat" (or whatever you might call it.) Within the past couple of months that I have lived there, I have produced sufficient quantity of stool as to completely clog it on at least three occasions.

After a year of stopping up the toilet nearly once a week, I finally went shopping for a new toilet today. I was wanting the American Standard Champion 4, but nearly all the toilets at Lowes and Home Depot were the ADA compliant "tall height."
At 5'7" my feet barely touch the ground on those, and my wife's legs dangle. You just can't get the leverage to dig in and push out a good one when your feet are dangling.
They only had two "standard height" toilets, one of the cheapest and a mid-grade Kohler. While the Kohler Wellworth didn't have quite the ability to flush sixteen golf balls at one time like the Champion, it was still advertised as "Plug Free - no more clogs." We shall see.

You have been updated.

[Dan Schultz]

.... After a year of stopping up the toilet nearly once a week, I finally went shopping for a new toilet today. I was wanting the American Standard Champion 4....

Shades of Al Bundy!

In my days as an automation engineer, one of my customers was HooverLine... a manufacturer of toilet flush valves. Some of the most interesting stories were told to me by an engineer there who was an expert on 'toilet tests'. 'Larry' clearly identified the older American Standard toilets as the last true 'turd-busters'. I have three bathrooms in my house and still have those old commodes in full service. I haven't had a stopped-up toilet since I built those bathrooms in 1976. They've even survived the gigantic wads of toilet paper were used by two daughters and an occasional 'white rat'. I think it was George Carlin who said "women use huge wads of toilet paper even when they don't poop'!

I don't care about the multiple gallons per flush. I want to hear that KAAAAA-WOOOSH!

http://turdbusters.com/

[Heavy_Metal]

They only had two "standard height" toilets, one of the cheapest and a mid-grade Kohler. While the Kohler Wellworth didn't have quite the ability to flush sixteen golf balls at one time like the Champion, it was still advertised as "Plug Free - no more clogs." We shall see.

You have been updated.

If the Wellworth is the current version having a 3-inch-flapper-style or a tower-style flush valve, you shouldn't have any trouble with it. If it's the older type with a 2-inch flapper, you never know.

But after watching the video, I'm surprised you didn't get a Viper- but they don't sell these in big-box stores.

[bort]

The mall shooting in Maryland happened at a place where I probably went 100 times as a kid, and later as an adult. Really scary to know exactly where something like that happened. People suck.

Only a matter of time before this started happening in places other than Baltimore City.

Yeah... and I also just saw the story about the guy who got his head smashed in with a brick while walking home at 2am. I never thought I would feel *safer* in New York than in Baltimore, but the difference is night and day.

Even with it's problems though, Baltimore is home, and the good outweigh the bad. Funny thing is, if Baltimore ever became crime free and a pleasant and friendly place, it wouldn't feel like home anymore.

And thus is the classic Baltimore apathy...

[Jose the tuba player]

I just picked up a decent Yamaha 103 for a great price

[Donn]

At 5'7" my feet barely touch the ground on those, and my wife's legs dangle. You just can't get the leverage to dig in and push out a good one when your feet are dangling.

http://www.squattypotty.com/

This afternoon I bought a toilet tank "trip lever" for an American Standard toilet, at an excellent local plumbing supply place. Yesterday, when I dropped by one of the more local (walking distance) hardware stores in search of one that would fit, the guy uttered a rather coarse word when I told him my toilet was an American Standard, and followed it up with some more coarse words. Sounds like a lot of people come in looking for parts, and nothing fits but the specific part made for that specific model. Hardware stores carry parts like Lasco, not parts lines for each toilet manufacturer.

[tofu]

They only had two "standard height" toilets, one of the cheapest and a mid-grade Kohler. While the Kohler Wellworth didn't have quite the ability to flush sixteen golf balls at one time like the Champion, it was still advertised as "Plug Free - no more clogs." We shall see.

You have been updated.

If the Wellworth is the current version having a 3-inch-flapper-style or a tower-style flush valve, you shouldn't have any trouble with it. If it's the older type with a 2-inch flapper, you never know.

But after watching the video, I'm surprised you didn't get a Viper- but they don't sell these in big-box stores.

I'm surprised Home Dump didn't have a special going on one of these beauties they've been selling.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/toilet-part ... g-reports/

Nothing but(t) fun when the old commode explodes.

[TubaRay]

This is just the kind of "****" that we should read about in this thread!

Shiite? Are you certain it isn't Sunni?

[windshieldbug]

This is just the kind of "****" that we should read about in this thread!

Shiite? Are you certain it isn't Sunni?

Just the sort of veil we need thrown over this thread...

[scottw]

I just learned that a cashew is not a nut. You have been updated.

[Tubajug]

Today is my daughter's 3rd birthday. It is also the 75th anniversary of the first flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning. One of these days I keep telling myself I will build a model of a P-38 and paint her name on the side to commemorate both events.

Happy Birth/Flight-day!

[windshieldbug]

I just learned that a cashew is not a nut.

Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don't.
Sometimes you have been updated. Sometimes you haven't....

[bearphonium]

This week I had to water the trees we planted last fall. In Oregon. In January, which is unheard of in my lifetime here. We are 5" down for the month of January, and 20" down for the rain year, which begins in October. Mount Shasta has almost no snow on it.

In spite of the dry weather, I have not ridden my motorcycle...since we've had freezing fog!

You have been updated!

[TubaRay]

We are 5" down for the month of January, and 20" down for the rain year, which begins in October. You have been updated!

I have never before heard of a "rain year."

You have been updated!

[tbn.al]

Just finished celebrating my 46th anniversary in the most relaxing spot on this earth. Don't know if I can go back to the real world.

[bort]

Just finished celebrating my 46th anniversary in the most relaxing spot on this earth. Don't know if I can go back to the real world.

Whoa, East St. Louis was that good? Yuk yuk yuk

Congrats!