Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 20:59:54 EST

From: Larry Horn LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU

Subject: Re: Thanks for the lavatory



From Rudy Troike:



The "No. 1/2" terms I first learned from reading

an article about St. Thomas in the Caribbean, where fresh water

is scarce, and people in hotels were advised with a note posted in the

bathroom: "In this island of the sun, don't flush after Number 1."



Cf. the color-coded jingle popular during the California drought of the late

1970's:



If it's yellow, let it mellow,

If it's brown, flush it down.



Larry