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