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

Thu Dec 13 15:19:05 EST 2007

Solution:

Light an M-80 or one of those 1/8 sticks of dynamite, put in toilet  
then flush!  Oh and don't forget to close the toilet lid!

Very funny story, John!

Thanks for the laugh!

Greg

On Dec 13, 2007, at 1:23 PM, Jodi Bowser wrote:

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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
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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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