Re: Six word SF

On or around Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:03:10 +0000, Frank Erskine
<frank.erskine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> enlightened us thusly:

On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:50:00 GMT, Guy King <guy.king@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

The message <v78ir4hgv2in82l9gsevg6cah52g3ulgd5@xxxxxxx>
from Frank Erskine <frank.erskine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> contains these words:

That's worse. If you flush with the lid down the plume of germs
spreads out a lot further (allegedly) than with the lid up.

I'll bet that varies so much with the design of that particular lid-pan
combination that it's utterly useless as advice goes.

Well it was in a textbook written about 1895 or so by a neminent
sanitary engineer.

'course, in those days you had the cistern (Iron, with weight-into-a-well to
start the siphon, and clank-ker-bong WHOOSH noise) up hihg on the wall, so
that the water, when it arrived in the pan, was moving at a rate of knots.

unlike yer modern things.
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