Guess you all missed John Crappers Sept. 28th birthday

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Although Crapper didn’t invent the toilet, he did once install 30 very fancy ones at for Queen Victoria’s oldest son, Prince Edward (later Edward VII). He spent much of his career promoting the idea that people should install flushing toilets in their own homes, in an era when most people didn’t. He also invented the manhole cover, which gives city workers (and occasional crime-fighting mutant turtles) easier access to the sewers. If you visit London, you can still see Crapper manhole covers around Westminster Abbey.

Popular legend has it that that we derive the modern slang term “crap” from the work of Thomas Crapper, but the enterprising Victorian plumber can’t take credit for the word any more than he can take credit for inventing the flush toilet. The word actually comes from the medieval French word for waste, rubbish, or chaff: “crappe.” It took until 1846 for people to start applying the word to bodily waste. We can hardly blame then ten-year-old Thomas Crapper for that.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2019/09/28/happy-birthday-to-the-much-maligned-thomas-crapper/#746e94cb7d14

[htuttle]

1. I honored his birthday in the usual fashion

As I try to most every morning.

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Me too!

Perhaps I should have played the kazoo to better commemorate the occasion.

[Sneederbunk]

3. And David Pecker's birthday was on the 24th.

[mbusby]

4. LOL...

...LOL...

[MontanaMama]

5. So speaking of crap...

There’s a good documentary on Netflix called Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates....the first installment is about the Gates Foundation’s mission to improve sanitation in developing countries. It was fascinating.

[Dagstead Bumwood]

6. A toast then to Thomas Crapper!

Every morning begins with my own small tribute to you, good sir!

[Ron Obvious]

7. So who is this "John" crapper then?

Methinks this is a Freudian misnomer.

[Laffy Kat]

8. So next, you'll be trying to convince me that the inventor of the brassiere wasn't..

Otto Titslinger?

[diva77]

9. I had an encounter with a Thomas Crapper toilet -- in a public restroom at

Alnwick Castle in Northumberland. Heavy duty cast iron, made to outlast the human race; and somewhat of a showpiece with the fancy decor situated on the rim of the bowl and inside the bowl. Kind of a shame to do your business in a work of art.

This isn't one of the ones from the castle -- probably a newer model, but similar detail in the bowl: