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Ever hear of the rare metal, Unobtanium? It's the physical equivalent of vaporware.
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Would you like fries with that sir/ma'am?
This reminds me of my uni days (yes, halcyon ones at that) where toilet graffiti written above the roll of toilet paper read: "Arts degrees - Please take one"
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toilet graffiti written above the roll of toilet
paper read: "Arts degrees - Please take one"
At Portland State University, some people took to writing in the grout between the tiles in some men's toilets such slogans as,"Grout Expectations," "The grout wall of China," "No grout about it," "The Grout Gatsby," "Groutcho Marx," etc. I found that reading them assisted my using the facility for its intended purpose greatly!
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[blueWould you like fries with that sir/ma'am? AAUUGH! I shoulda known.  It now looks as though we have the beginnings of a graffiti thread here. Anyone want to post such an animal? or maybe I will.....it's just.....my threads seem a little.....threadbare, these days.....! O what the hell. Here I go.
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In a major Northeastern university, which shall remain nameless unless of course you know the territory, undergraduates generally use the John D Rockerfeller Library. Or at least they did so before computers were so rampant. It was thus common for arrangements to be made to "meet you at the Rock."
The Administration didn't approve. Disrespectful, they said. And so a decree went out that the aforementioned Library should not be referred to as "the Rock" any more.
And so it came to pass. The undergraduates obligingly changed their custom, and instead arranged, "I'll meet you at the John."
Needless to say, the Decree was quickly rescinded.
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Is that how bathrooms started being called johns?
They started calling them johns in loo of calling them Crappers.
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