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Subject:Re: Re[2]: Minimalism From:"Wayne J. Douglass" <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 4 Feb 1997 09:16:03 -0800
At 08:52 AM 2/4/97 -0700, karen otto wrote:
> I know of at least one European toilet (commode, john, latrine,
> convenience, head, privy) which had its flush activator located within
> the pipe which led to the water tank, mounted high on the wall.
>
>
> Sketch:
>
> ==============
> | | Tank
> | |
> --------------
> | |
> | | smaller pipe
> | | nested inside
> | | larger pipe
> | |
> | | Pull upper pipe down
> | | to activate flush
> | |
> ++++++++++
> + +
> + +
> + +
> + +
> ---------------++++---------------
>
>
Sounds like the Microsoft Bob of crapper interfaces.
--Wayne Douglass
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