(OFF) Frogs in the toilet Re: [PrintOwners] plumbers

[John Gross]

Come on John, teach him to sing and feature him on utube.  Make lemonade
when you are dealt lemons man, make lemonade.  You could be famous.

John A. Gross
Technigraphics, Inc.
PO Box 1846
Iowa City, Iowa 52244
jgross at techiowa.com

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From: printowners-bounces at printweb.org
[mailto:printowners-bounces at printweb.org] On Behalf Of Jodi Bowser
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 1:23 PM
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Subject: Re: (OFF) Frogs in the toilet Re: [PrintOwners] plumbers

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This is too funny.  Sorry that I don't have a solution for you, but this was

great
reading while I had lunch.


Jodi Bowser
Pyramid Printing
Missoula, Montana
jodib at blackfoot.net
406-728-1503
fax 406-728-0505

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Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 11:46 AM
Subject: (OFF) Frogs in the toilet Re: [PrintOwners] plumbers


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>
>
> In a message dated 12/13/2007 1:12:38 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> VillagePrinting1 at aol.com writes:
>
> All this  about margins between plumbers & printers reminds me of the
> Frasier
> show.  Hmmm makes you wonder doesn't it!
>
> Yes, I too am considering a career change, thanks to Larry's disclosure of
> the huge margins to be made in the plumbing trade.... Actually, I have an
> ulterior reason as well.... For the past 2-3 years the maid keeps 
> reporting to
> Mary that she has found one or two fairly sizeable frogs in the upstairs
> bathroom on the guest side of our house.
>
> For a while, I ignored these complaints since I don't like frogs nor  do I
> sleep on that side of the house and I don't have any friends thus  no real
> worries about offending guests sleeping over there. We do have  family so 
> one time
> I did go over and investigate and sure enough there was a  good size sort 
> of
> albino-colored frog in the bowl. I flushed a couple of times  and he would

> go
> down only to reappear a few minutes later. The next time I put  half a 
> gallon
> of Clorox into the bowl, figuring it would either kill the frog or  at 
> least
> turn him completely white and if that happened he  would better blend in 
> with
> the porcelain and not even be noticed by someone  sitting on the toilet, 
> unless
> he jumped of course. I considered  using Drano one time but not sure how 
> well
> or safe that might be since we  have a septic system. The thought of our 
> 20
> year-old septic tank blowing up is  not a pretty picture or one I want to 
> chance.
>
> I figured the frogs must be coming in from one of the vent pipes on  the 
> roof
> but since the angles are steep I was not about to climb up there  myself.
> Neither could I get a good enough angle to allow me to see if  there was 
> indeed a
> vent cover. So, I had to call a contractor to come out and  check. He 
> never
> did tell us what he found, but he did send a bill which I  promptly paid. 
> This
> was a few months ago.
>
> Now we have the problem again. I mentioned this to our original builder 
> and
> speculated that there were only two ways frogs could get into the  toilet
> bowl... through the roof vent, OR albino frogs were now breeding in the 
> septic
> tank! He laughed and said the latter was impossible. I'm not so sure. Of 
> course
> if that is happening, we have the makings for one of those science
> fiction-horror movies where I envision all the frogs deciding to start 
> hopping  up the
> piping one night and invade the house. For right now, we just make sure 
> the
> cover is down all the time. The next solution will be to take one of my
> weightlifting plates (like a 45lb one) and putting that on top of the 
> toilet  bowl
> cover.
>
> I know that some night I am going to awaken to the sounds of thumping from
> the other side of the house and I will go over there only to see the 
> toilet
> bowl  cover bouncing up and down, with three or four frog legs and fingers
> sticking  out between the toilet cover and porcelain bowl. At that point 
> we will put
> the house up for sale and move into a nice Radisson on the beach. However,
> with  real estate values down all over, we may just have to live with the 
> frogs
> in  harmony, so long as they don't hop over to our side of the house. We
> still have  three other bathrooms that the frogs have not discovered. For 
> Larry's
> benefit,  expressed as a ratio, that is 75% of our home's bathrooms are 
> "frog
> free."
>
>
>
> John  Stewart
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