Toilet humour
Public reference to bodily functions such as urination and defecation is taboo in many cultures and thus arouses intense anxiety in many people. For this reason, there is a whole sub-genre of humour, toilet humour (also potty humour or bathroom humour) based around excretion. This genre is particularly popular with children. This genre also sees substantial crossover with the sexual humour genre, most likely because of the multiple-function nature of the body parts involved in both genre as well as the sexual fetishism involved with certain bathroom functions. Many artists have made their names promulgating toilet humour: Much of the lyrical content of avant-garde rock musician Frank Zappa's songs revolved around toilet humour, for example, "Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow" (from the album Apostrophe).The humour of the animated series South Park also consists largely of toilet humour, even going so far as to have a talking piece of excrement called Mr. Hankey as a recurring character.Dr. Slump, a manga from Akira Toriyama (the creator of Dragon Ball), also had a strong scatological bent.The Private Eye comic strip Barry McKenzie written by Barry Humphries and drawn by Nicholas Garland are a treasure trove of chundering, parking the tiger, splashing the boots, and draining the dragon, with much of the allegedly Australian slang created by Humphries himself.Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry, translated as King Turd, opens with the line "Merdre!" (a corruption of the French merde, translated by Barbara Wright as "shittr") and is filled with scatological humour. Now regarded as one of the first examples of the Theatre of the Absurd, Jarry was only 14 years old when he began it as a spoof of one of his teachers.The adult comic magazine VIZ has, over 25 years, built a publishing empire from toilet humour.The movie Dumb and Dumber featured a lengthy toilet scene played by actor Jeff Daniels. Toilet humour also refers to jokes around modesty, such as if one is seen naked or in his/her undergarments. It can also refer to jokes revolving around the incontinence of infants and young children or the aged or infirm. Jokes about wedgiess and tighty-whitey underpants also fall in this category. Constipation is another source of toilet humour. Screamin' Jay Hawkins recorded his "Constipation Blues" with his trademark yells after his first bout with blockage and the Bonzo Dog Band recorded "The Strain" on the same topic and with many of the same sound effects.
Euphemisms and witticisms Many forms of toilet humour involve euphemisms for excretion, such as the following:
Beating the piss out of the little guy Blasting the beast Bleeding the lizard Breaking the seal Change water on the goldfish Do a wee Draining the dragon Draining the main vein Draining the radiator Draining the one-eyed monster Draining down the system Freshen my Snapple Go pee pee Going to see a man about a dog Going to water my horse Hsi Hsi (Hawaii Local Term - Pronounced "SheShe") Leak the lizard Lower the water level Number one Pass water Pee Pee Piddle (considered a coarse expression in some quarters) Pit stop Point the Pink Pistol at the Porcelain Firing Range Pointing Percy at the porcelain Punish the porcelain Release the pressure Refresh the body Relieve yourself Seeing a man about a dog (or a horse) Shaking hands with the vicar Shaking hands with the wife's best friend Shaking the dew off the lily Siphon the python Spend a penny Sprinkle Steering Stanley to the stainless steel Syphon the python Taking a leak Taking a pee Taking a piss (considered a coarse expression in some quarters) Taking a slash Taking a squirt Taking a whiz Tapping a kidney Tinkle Training Thomas on the terracotta Twinkle Visit Uncle Charley Void my bladder Walk my snake Water my weasel Watering the flowers (outdoor) Write my name in the water
Releasing the Kraken Baiting the trap Faxing a shit to the toilet machine De-corking the borking Dropping the Mexican Boll Weevil Squirt juice Hungry Hungry Hippos Assfire Cripping A Crapple Monopoly! Tuesday Afternoons Poop McFartlene Dr. Benjamin Fartlin Giving birth to the black eel Backing the big brown motorhome out of the garage Dropping a dook Releasing a depth charge Doing some spring cleaning Back one out Blasting a dookie Boo-Boo Ca-Ca Curling one off Cutting rope Poo-Poo Deucing Doo-Doo Doodey Download a brownload Dropping anchor Dropping the weights Dropping a bomb Dropping a deuce Dropping a hoopsnake Dropping a jolst Dropping bass ("base" as in the opposite of treble. Not the fish.) Dropping some friends off at the pool Dropping the Browns off at the Super Bowl Dropping the kids off at the pool Dropping wax Feeding the seagulls (politer version of "Feeding the shitehawks") Fertilising the plants (Refers to defecating outdoors and on the ground, such as while camping) Filling the bowl Giving birth Going Boom Boom Going poop Going to number two Launching torpedoes Laying a brick Laying a cable Laying a Hank Laying a turd Laying some wolf bait Lose some weight (Also used in urination) Making a tail Making logs (or a log) Making waves Makin' bears Grahamslaw your pants Number two (a portable toilet company advertises itself as "Number One in Number Two"; a Midwest plumbing company proclaims, "We're Number One when your toilet looks like Number Two.") Pebble-dashing the porcelain Pinching (off) a loaf Pinching a yam Producing some output Taking a brew Taking a crap (see also Mr. Thomas Crapper) Taking a dump Taking a poo Taking a shit (a coarse expression, not a euphemism) Taking the Browns to the Superbowl Taking the Cosby kids to the pool Taking the morning curl Unloading a batch of cigars Poopy Woo Ring of fire Montezuma's Revenge (traveller’s diarrhoea) Going to meet Jim Davidson Giving birth to a chocalote baby boy Chocolate time! Doing brown Throwing up backwards Punishing the toilet Letting loose Becoming the porcelain assassin Letting the dogs out Dropping off the kids at the pool
All-natural fumigation Anal thunder A quick piece from the anus orchestra Ass-music Ass-whistling Anal music Bake brownies (from South Park) Beef-cloud Blow a big one Blow off Blowing out the colon Booty burp Bottom burp Break wind Bust ass Chemical warfare Choke a donkey Churning urn of burning funk Crop Dusting (while walking) Cut the cheese Drop one's guts (as in "Who dropped their guts?") Erupting the anal volcano Evacuating the second floor Explosion between the legs Floating an air biscuit Gaseous Anal Discharge (GAD) Give birth to a brown baby ghost Give up the funk Grunt (as in "Who grunted?") Honking for clearance Killing the barking spiders (helps if you stomp) Launching a growler Launch one off Let off a howler Let off a stinker Letting the Wookie win Let one go Let one off Let slip the dog of war Message from below Number four Pass gas Pass wind Rip one Step on a frog Trouser cough Watch out for those barking spiders Woofie
Alan's psychedelic breakfast Barfing Be the mother bird Blowing beets/bile/breakfast/chunks/donuts Blue chip special Booting Bow down before the porcelain god (On some occasions, the worshipper vows to the god never to drink again.) Bradding Bring it up for a vote Calling Huey (or Ralph) on the commode-a-phone Catch it on the rebound Cheektowaga scream Chow Chunder Cook up a pavement pizza Cry Ruth Date Porcelain Patty Driving the Buick to Europe Driving the porcelain (school) bus Eat backwards Feed the fish (when seasick) Feed your young (like a mother bird regurgitates food for her chicks) Food Escape! Have an out-of-stomach experience Hiccup from Hell Hock a furball Horking Hug the porcelain wishing well Hurling Inverse Gut Jackson Pollock Jump shot Kiss the can Kneel before the porcelain throne Lap lung butter Launch lunch Lose your lunch Make a crustless pizza Make a hideous jiffy bag Make like Mount St. Helens Number three Offer a sacrifice at the porcelain altar Paint the sidewalk Park the tiger Pay homage to the Irishman Huey O'Rourke Pop a gastric zit Pray/worship at the porcelain altar/temple Pray to the porcelain god/goddess/princess Puking Pulling the trigger (intentionally vomiting) Quease Ralphing Regurgitate Reverse-drink (from the Thunder Mug) Revisit dinner Ride the Regurgitron Rope pĺ elgen (Norwegian for "call the moose") Scream at the ants Sing psychedelic praises to the depths of the china bowl Snarf Snow bank pizza Soul coughing Spewing Splatterhouse Spraying McDonalds (as in "Did somebody spray McDonalds?") Talking on the porcelain telephone Talking to the weeds Talking to God on the big white telephone Technicolour yawn/yodel Throwing up Thunder-chunder rainbow parfait Toilet bowl toss Tossing your cookies Turn your guts inside-out Un-eat Upchuck Vector-spew Vomiting Warhol wail Waste good beer Yakking Yarfing Yawn for the hearing impaired Yodelling to the porcelain megaphone Yorxing
Belching Burping Ructus
Combinations
Another section of toilet humor involves combination bodily functions, which are generally the unexpected result of some forcing mechanism. While these events certainly don't have the lexicographical diversity of their single-function counterparts, they are generally considered humorous in discussion and especially in occurence. - Vurping - When someone vomits when they eructate.
- Sharting - When someone defecates as the result of overpressures created by attempting to flatulate.
- Snarting - When someone farts as the result of sneezing-induced overpressures.
- The Holy Shit - When some shits themself with a fart that came as the result of sneezing. Better if someone says "bless you" with the sneeze.
Miscellaneous Body Parts, Odors and Medical Ailments
Many of these have their own sets of slang and humourous terms and eupemisms (which should be developed as part of this article). - Anus
- Breasts
- Bromodrosis - chronic foot odor
- Constipation
- Diarrhea
- Halitosis - chronic bad breath
- Hemorrhoids
- Penis
- Rectum
- Sphincter
Ambiguous
The following are used as intentionally ambiguous terms for a visit to a bathroom/toilet to urinate, defecate, or both: - Finishing up some paper-work (wiping)
- Going to hit the head (Naval Term)
- Going to the can
- Going to the little boys'/girls' room (mostly in American English)
- Going to the loo (UK)
- Going to the "happy room" (Thailand)
- Going to the bathroom (US)
- Going to the "office" (or "cubicle")
- Going to the "little inventor's room"
- Going where even the king goes alone
- Going where even the emperor must go on foot
- Having a healthy
- Paying a visit
- Powdering one's nose
- Taking a biological break
- Taking a constitutional
- Using the facilities
- Using the plumbing
- Answering nature's call
- Seeing Mrs. Murphy
- Visiting Mr. Limbaugh
Encyclopaedic Toilet Humour
It is a tradition in the encyclopaedic business to compare other publishers of dictionaries or fact books to restrooms. A current example was Robert McHenry's essay in a web magazine. [1].
See also - South Park
- Scatology
- Gross-out film
- Lighting farts
- Blink-182
- Le Pétomane
- VIZ
- The Poopsmith
External link - doodie.com Popular website featuring cartoons of people defecating.
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