A “Blast” from the Past – Yer Friday Afternoon Funny
Figuratively, anyway.
I was looking through some old e-mail the other day and found this. It’s something that was forwarded to me while I was in theater a few years ago.
When I first read it, I have to admit that I laughed so hard that I nearly fell out of my chair. It’s one of the funniest bits of bathroom humor I’ve ever read. (Yeah, ladies – we guys are kinda strange that way.) And we could really use a good laugh sometimes in-theater, so it was much appreciated.
The full text (less e-mail headers) is presented below the break. I’ve done some re-formatting for display, but other than that haven’t changed the text. I’d guess the original author was likely British and had an engineering or other technical background.
Read or not as you see fit. Fair warning: it’s bathroom humor and contains a crude word or two.
Yesterday was hell
All in all, it hadn’t been a good day. Bad traffic, a malfunctioning computer, incompetent coworkers and a sore back all made me a seething cauldron of rage. But more importantly for this story, it had been over forty-eight hours since I’d last taken a dump.
I’d tried to jumpstart the process, beginning my day with a bowl of bowel-cleansing fiber cereal, following it with six cups of coffee at work, and adding a bean-laden lunch at Taco Bell. As I was returning home from work, my insides let me know with subtle rumbles and the emission of the occasional tiny fart that Big Things would be happening soon. Alas, I had to stop at the mall to pick up an order.
I completed this task, and as I was walking past the stores on my way back to the car, I noticed a large sale sign proclaiming, “Everything Must Go!” This was prophetic, for my colon informed me with a sudden violent cramp and a wet, squeaky fart that everything was indeed about to go. I hurried to the mall bathroom.
I surveyed the five stalls, which I have numbered 0 through 4 (I write a lot of software) for your convenience:
0. Occupied
1. Clean, but Bathroom Protocol forbids its use, as it’s next to the occupied one.
2. Poo on seat.
3. Poo and toilet paper in bowl, unidentifiable liquid splattered on seat.
4. No toilet paper, no stall door, unidentifiable sticky object near base of toilet.
Clearly, it had to be Stall #1. I trudged back, entered, dropped trou and sat down. I’m normally a fairly Shameful Shitter. I wasn’t happy about being next to the occupied stall, but Big Things were afoot.
I was just getting ready to bear down when all of a sudden the sweet sounds of Beethoven came from next door, followed by a fumbling, and then the sound of a voice answering the ringing phone. As usual for a cell phone conversation, the voice was exactly 8 dB louder than it needed to be.
Out of Shameful habit, my sphincter slammed shut. The inane conversation went on and on. Mr. Shitter was blathering to Mrs. Shitter about the shitty day he had.
I sat there, cramping and miserable, waiting for him to finish. As the loud conversation dragged on, I became angrier and angrier, thinking that I, too, had a crappy day, but I was too polite to yak about in public. My bowels let me know in no uncertain terms that if I didn’t get crapping soon, my day would be getting even crappier.
Finally my anger reached a point that overcame Shamefulness. I no longer cared. I gripped the toilet paper holder in one hand, braced my other hand against the side of the stall, and pushed with all my might.
I was rewarded with a fart of colossal magnitude – a cross between the sound of someone ripping a very wet bed sheet in half and of plywood being torn off a wall. The sound gradually transitioned into a heavily modulated low-RPM tone, not unlike someone firing up a Harley. I managed to hit resonance frequency of the stall, and it shook gently.
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Once my ass cheeks stopped flapping in the breeze, three things became apparent: (1) The next-door conversation had ceased; (2) my colon’s continued seizing indicated that there was more to come; and (3) the bathroom was now beset by a horrible, eldritch stench.
It was as if a gateway to Hell had been opened. The foul miasma quickly made its way under the stall and began choking my poop-mate. This initial “herald” fart had ended his conversation in mid-sentence.
“Oh my God,” I heard him utter, following it with the suppressed sounds of choking, and then, “No, baby, that wasn’t me (cough, gag), you could hear that (gag)??”
Next door I could hear fumbling with the paper dispenser as he desperately tried to finish his task. Little snatches of conversation made themselves heard over my anal symphony: “Gotta go . . . horrible . . . throw up . . . in my mouth . . . not . . . make it . . . tell the kids . . . love them . . . oh God . . .” followed by more sounds of suppressed gagging and retching.
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Alas, it is evidently difficult to hold one’s phone and wipe one’s bum at the same time. Just as my high-pressure abuse of the toilet was winding down, I heard a plop and splash from next door, followed by a string of swear words and gags. My poop-mate had dropped his phone into the toilet.
After a considerable amount of paperwork, I got up and surveyed the damage. I felt bad for the janitor who’d be forced to deal with this, but I knew that flushing was not an option. No toilet in the world could handle that unholy mess. Flushing would only lead to a floor flooded with filth.
As I left, I glanced to the next-door stall. Nothing remained in the bowl. Had he flushed his phone, or had he plucked it out and left the bathroom with nasty unwashed hands? The world will never know.
I exited the bathroom, momentarily proud and Shameless, looking around for a face glaring at me. But I saw no one. I suspect that somehow my supernatural elimination has manged to transfer my Shamefulness to my anonymous poop-mate. I think it’ll be a long time before he can bring himself to poop in public – and I doubt he’ll ever again answer his cell phone in the loo.
And this, my friends, is why you should never talk on your phone in the bathroom.
Category: Pointless blather, Who knows
Tears……Never saw this the first time…….tears from stifling uproarious laughter so as not to confound my co-workers.
Good shit, I’m still laughing!
I cannot remember the last time I laughed so much. Awesome.
I caught a buddy on the phone with his female office manager whilst on the throne. I flushed every toilet and urinal as close to the same moment as possible. The woman got pissed that he was talking in the throne room.
As I work in an office, I sat there, laughing as quietly as I could.
I did a pretty good job of it, but I think I hurt something.
I’ve come to the conclusion that men are a little strange. Wonderful — but strange.
made my friday better.
@5 Darlin, we are more than a little strange….but thanks for the wonderful part! Perhaps wonderfully strange is appropriate in some cases.
The moral of the story of course is that more fiber in your daily diet prevents a 48 hour buildup of sludge that will require one hundred pounds of air pressure to evacuate…..steady consumption of broccoli and cabbage keeps the air pressure requirements down to about 2-5 pounds of air pressure and doesn’t allow more than a 5-6 hour buildup of unnecessary sludge….
Oh boy…reminds me of this one time..at band camp
I was a high speed young Corporal stationed at Schofield Barracks. I had been severly constipated about 3 or 4 days. The McDs right off post had been running a 2-for-1 Big Mac special all week that we had been partaking in like fiends.
Well we had the Aloha Run coming up the next day which is a 9 mile run (if I rmember correctly) that the entire 25th ID used to take part in. So I knew I had to do something.
So I traipsed down to the shoppete and bought some ExLax. “Guaranteed to work in 12 hours” the directioins said. Well I had to be on the bus, with the rest of the unit, at 0400 to head to Honolulu for the run. And that was 8 hours away at this point. So…doing some Infantry math I figured if I ate 6 pices of the little chocolate laxative that would speed the process along.
Well along comes 0400 and nothing. In fact nothing happended until the run started. The low grumbling and “sharts” (for those that don’t know a shart is a combination of shit and fart)
I made the whole run and headed for the porta johns at Aloha Stadium…and of course they were all occupied with long lines. And of course the 1SG was hounding us to get on the bus.
I was sweating and in pain by this point. I wasn’t going to make it through a 40 minute bus ride back to Schofield. I felt like I was in labor.
I moved to the front of the bus and demanded the driver pull over. My CO and 1SG were like wtf is this kid doing?
I ran out of the bus and into the cane field off the road and let loose. And used my socks to clean up. Then walked sheepishly and relieved back to the bus…sans socks.
Took me a while to live that down.
PintoNag: yeah, guys do seem to get more laughs out of bathroom humor than do you ladies.
Why? Dunno. Maybe the late George Carlin explained it. As he put it in one of his routines: “Farts are fun. Farts are sh*t without the mess!”
@8 happened to a kid at Ft Dix in 1978 they called him private turd pants or private turdison (his name rhymed with that) the rest of basic….(about 4 weeks left)
LMAO!! i just read this to my wife and she won’t stop glaring at me
I am so glad that carried a spew warning!
Oh my God. the entire building heard me laughing.
I hurt from waist up.
Can hardly see to type.
OMG my sides hurt, and I’m laughing so hard I’m crying! You made my weekend!!
Best descriptive writing I have ever read!
1. I had to close my office door I was laughing so hard.
2. As a chick, while I’ve never done something of this magnitude, I do try to flush incessantly (overflush?) when someone’s on the phone. It’s the bathroom, not the phone room. I don’t poop in your living room, don’t chatter away in the bathroom.
Hilarious, funniest thing that I’ve read in a long time!!!
Good needed laugh…sent the story via email to my better half since she loves to take her phone with her to the bathroom.
Yes, NOT to be read to the wifey (explanation not necessary).
And, I’m glad my chair has arms on it. Otherwise I’d be on the floor.
Thank you for the Friday funny.
‘technical background’
Are you saying he was a proctologist???
Thanks, I needed the laugh!
What a great way to start a weekend, thanks for the post!!!!!!!
@8 – I would like to know if you ended up with a large frog in your pants.
I only ask because the funniest thing I’ve ever seen was on “Tour of Duty” when one of the guys had dysentery, couldn’t hold it, ran into the elephant grass and when he emerged saw VC in the bush dropped his trousers to shoot. Meanwhile, a very large frog leapt into his pants and then he pulled them up.
It’s about 3:15 minutes into this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE9mfRk-KvE
I have a warped sense of humor, so I appreciate this story, as I have been victimized myself this way.
Am I the only one who thought “great, now there’s only one usable stall left”?
Holy … ahh … crap, that was hysterical!
My screen is not improved by the sudden addition of ramen.
Nope. Not one bit.
Funniest thing I’ve read in a long, long time 😀
That was great, nothing better than a good shit story. I have a good one that a heard a year or so ago. Spew Warning. I went to Home Depot recently while not being altogether sure that course of action was a wise one. You see, the previous evening I had prepared and consumed a massive quantity of my patented ‘you’re definitely going to shit yourself’ road-kill chili. Tasty stuff, although hot to the point of being painful, which comes with a written guarantee from me that if you eat it, the next day both of your butt cheeks WILL fall off.. Here’s the thing. I had awakened that morning, and even after two cups of coffee (and all of you know what I mean) nothing happened. No ‘Watson’s Movement. Despite the chillies swimming their way through my intestinal tract, I was unable to create the usual morning symphony referred to by my dear wife as ‘thunder and lightning’. Knowing that a time of reckoning HAD to come, yet not sure of just when, I bravely set off for Home Depot, my quest being paint and supplies to refinish the deck. Upon entering the store at first all seemed normal. I selected a cart and began pushing it about dropping items in for purchase.. It wasn’t until I was at the opposite end of the store from the toilets that the pain hit me. Oh, don’t look at me like you don’t know what I’m talking about. I’m referring to that ‘Uh, Oh, Shit, gotta go’ pain that always seems to hit us at the wrong time. The thing is, this pain was different. The chillies from the night before were staging a revolt. In a mad rush for freedom they bullied their way through the small intestines, forcing their way into the large intestines, and before I could take one step in the direction of the toilets which would bring sweet relief, it happened. The chillies fired a warning shot. There I stood, alone in the paint and stain section, suddenly enveloped in a toxic cloud the likes of… Read more »
oh sweet Jesus Enigma! i just read that one to my wife and have been 86’d from the house with my pot-o-chili!
Just read this to my wife. She and I were laughing so hard the cats got scared. “Honey, that sounds like on a regular day!”, was my wife’s response.
“Honey that sounds like you on a regular day!” is what I meant to type.
#27: I’ve heard that called “Crop Dusting”
“poopmate” classic. My tale o’ poop fortunately didn’t involve me but a poor guy who was with 2/6. In 1981 I was on a fire-ex in 29 Palms and my battery was fire support for them. We were in Camp Wilson, which is the temporary base set way out from mainside. It has come a long way but back then it was GP Tents,mostly Port O Johns,and very limited showers, and a PX Truck once daily. The main character in this sordid tale was PFC Cornilous. He was of Carribean decent and a Brooklyn Native. May I add he was of below average intelligence and deathly afraid of snakes. His buddies took every opportunity to remind him that rattlesnakes “were all over” 29 Palms. When this guy got up in the morning he would poke his clothes with a stick to make sure a rattler wasn’t hiding in them. After lunch there was the usual run to the port o potties before after chow formation and Cornilous had dropped trou and began his bowl movement when a gust of wind blew some pebbles against the back of the port o john. The first thing he thought was a rattlesnake was in the crapper, His first action was to try to jump up and out the door. I’m not sure exactly how he managed it, but he managed to tip the port o john over,,, on its front door. He was trapped inside screaming his head off. It finally dawned on him there was no Rattler. But there he was, pants down and a large portion of the crapper contents on his ass legs and feet. Some of his buddies ( laughing like hell) picked up the port o potty and freed him. He emerged, crap splattered from the middle of his back to his feet, and of course a huge amount in his pants which had been half mast at the time. Poor Cornelius had to do a 400 yard “walk of shame” through the BLT area, with half of the Battalion watching as he dripped shit all the way… Read more »
@32..love it…similar story
Was also Artillery. At Fort Drum with the 10th Mountain. The worst Soldier in the battalion was the Chaplain’s Assistant. The kid was a mess. And I don’t just mean as a Soldier but as a human being. And to top it off he was from a certain family of big defense contractors that VP Cheney often gets paired with. We will just call him PFC H.
So there we were…at JRTC..out in the box. We had a fire base established and by this point in the exercise were getting resupplied by air because the OPFOR had all of the roads covered.
Every time the CH-47s came in the blew over the porta johns. As the Battery XO I was sitting up by the gate on our 50 cal position. And along comes the Chaplains vehicle. The Chaplain gets out ans starts mingling and there goes PFC H over to the porta john and goes in. Along comes the next resupply and over goes all of the porta johns, on cue, door side down on ol’ PFC H.
Next thing you know the poor Chaplain, God bless him, is helping the kid wash off with 5 gallon water cans.
And I will neither confirm or deny I spent a dry if not so comfortable night in a porta john during a freezing rain storm at Fort McClellan during BNCOC.
And these weren’t the new modern, contractor maintained porta johns. These were the plywood shacks over a hole in the ground.
Nor will I confirm or deny that upon entering said porta john a few days later, I dropped my little baggie of TP down the hole and of course there was no other TP. So being the quick thinker I was I used my trusty M258 decon training kit…with its handy alcohol pad to clean myself.
And clean it did. Like a whistle.
A few hours later and the rest of the FTX I couldn’t hardly walk from the horrendous rash it gave me.
#34 O-4E
Are you SURE it was the TRAINING wipe and not the real decon wipe?
@35
Having used the real wipes numerous times…I can only imagine the damage that would have done
I found this story this morning. It is a news item that may be of interest to some of you, should you ever need a transplant of this kind, for health reasons, of cours.
http://feeds.nbcnews.com/c/35002/f/653378/s/2bc70c2b/l/0Lvitals0Bnbcnews0N0C0Inews0C20A130C0A50C110C180A242730Enot0Eglamorous0Edoc0Eis0Euniversal0Edonor0Efor0Efecal0Etransplants0Dlite/story01.htm
@37,
No Shit?
Can’t let this one go by since it was referenced in a newer thread so I contribute this lovely Internet Poop story…..(oh and vomit too) /not me..just a poor soul that posted that is now internets famous…. ……………. Now, I know that there is a lot of embellishment that occurs on this group and I am aware that a small number of things are perhaps sheer fabrication, but I have a story to tell that is the absolute truth. Funniest damn thing that has ever happened to me. A couple of weeks ago we decided to cruise out to Ryan’s Steakhouse for dinner. It was a Wednesday night which means that macaroni and beef was on the hot bar, indeed the only night of the week that it is served. Wednesday night is also kid’s night at Ryan’s, complete with Dizzy the Clown wandering from table to table entertaining the little bastards. It may seem that the events about to be told have little connection to those two circumstances, but all will be clear in a moment. We went through the line and placed our orders for the all-you-can-eat hot bar then sat down as far away from the front of the restaurant as possible in order to keep the density of kids down a bit. Then I started my move to the hot bar. Plate after plate of macaroni and beef were consumed that evening, I tell you – in all, four heaping plates of the pseudo-Italian ambrosia were shoved into my belly. I was sated. Perhaps a bit too much, however. I had not really been feeling well all day, what with a bit of gas and such. By the time I had eaten four overwhelmed plates of food, I was in real trouble. There was so much pressure on my diaphragm that I was having trouble breathing. At the same time, the downward pressure was building. At first I thought it was only gas, which could have been passed in batches right at the table without too much concern. Unfortunately, that was not to be. After a… Read more »