Frazz by Jef Mallett for February 25, 2019

My bowl runneth over…

Oh, one of those. Okay, that’s bad.

That’s just plumb awful! Well, Frazz, just plunge right in—and wear your waterproof boots!

Toilets won’t flush means the handle isn’t releasing water. work. Toilet is plugged means the drain isn’t working.

A disadvantage of toilets in the basement.

If you can’t get near the toilet, then there’s no need to flush it.

Been there, Frazz. Time for the BIG plunger, lots of bleach and the floor mop. It’s not going to be pretty. :P

Those things can seriously drain your mood.

Apres moi, le deluge. Otherwise what we high schoolers used to call ‘water sports’

“Bubble, Bubble, Toilet Trouble, Some moron flushed down a towel…”

in school preferred the keith moon method of dealing with toilets

we had a toilet at work that was notorious for doing that. We learned quickly to turn the water off or it would flood the place. We called the building handy guy in, he proclaimed we were wrong without going in to look at the offending throne, it wasn’t malfunctioning, the problem with the toilet was that someone had turned off the water, and did we flush it wrong (yes, apparently all my life I just lucked into flushing a toilet right but lost that ability when I went to work, sigh). After the third time on the same day someone used the toilet and it bubbled up like it was possessed, he admitted that maybe there was a problem and actually went over to do some diagnostics on the toilet . Monday morning we had a new toilet and the system had been freshly snaked too, so I guess it wasn’t in our flushing technique that we were going wrong . Still scratching my head that we had to explain our rationale for turning off the water though.

When I was in high school, we set up a tape recorder (one of the reel-to-reel kind) to play a tape loop of solid objects plopping into water, then turned it on in a bathroom stall and waited for the janitor to come in. It took him about 3 minutes to become curious enuf to actually knock on the stall door to ask if the person inside was all right. During that time, there must’ve been about 60 sounds of stuff landing in the bowl but 0 flushes.

Toilets do weird things in high-rise buildings; my son’s dorm tower is 16 stories, and the toilet at ground floor looked like a fountain, with water coming up at least three feet out of the bowl.

Everyone has an off-day once in a while. (By which I mean Mr. Mallett.)

This kid is back… she reminds me of Peanuts’ Marcie.

To a custodian, the most dreaded words imaginable.

Is the toilet half-full or half-empty?

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Everybody knows that in poker a flush beats a pair every time. But outside of poker, I guess a non-flush can wreak havoc on a pair as well.