#596 – Fipple
Posted on September 23, 2008 at 12:00 am by Chris
Years ago there was a short period where my brother and I got home from school before either of my parents did. So instead of going home to our house we rode the bus home to the house of a girl from my school that I didn’t know very well. I knew who she was but I certainly had never been to her house before. The first day we went there her mom showed us around the house. The bathroom was the most memorable room we saw. Almost every available surface was covered in a sort of plush carpeting, including the toilet lid and tank. Not only was the tank covered in lush fabrics, it also had a push button flush. I had never seen a fuzzy or handle-less toilet before. There was a trick to flushing it. Since the tank was covered, you had to know the exact right clump of fuzz to push. It’s funny how my 7 year old brain decided that the reason for the secret flush button was so that if they ever had a burglar in their house they wouldn’t be able to use the bathroom.
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I was partially right. It’s instrument week.
Oh my god I lost my recorder! And I have guests coming over! I knew I should have included a self destruct button on my toilet for this occasion!
I used to have a fuzzy toilet, but it had a handle. No carpet on the floor, though. I hate that for a bathroom.
lol can i have a lock like that installed on my bedroom?
I never understood fuzzy toilet seats, I mean there is the obvious nicety that it’s warm when you sit down, but it really seems very very dirty, I mean there is so much opportunity there for that toilet seat cover to get gross.
Inappropriate usage of musical instrument week?
And one note off-key and… reverse flush?
This kind of toilet will sell for people who like playing music. 🙂
In extremely cold or hot weather, the instrument gets off-key enough that the code doesn’t work. This isn’t a big problem while the air conditioning works, though.
If something happens so that Biff can’t breathe while he needs to flush the toilet (like a bad cough, frequent hiccups, or noxious fumes) he’s also in trouble.
@Tarrant;
Hit a wrong note, the toilet goes into lock-down, and it requires admin privileges to unlock it again…
@psymon – what KIND of noxious fumes…? 😉
hope he washes his hands before using that instrument…..
@Chris “Almost every available surface was covered in a sort of plush carpeting, including the toilet lid and tank.” He meant the lid, which you don’t really come into contact with so much. They get less dirty, though.
@starseedjenny 😆
Fuzzy bathroom. Those are two words that should not go together.
Sweet toilet. Pretty inconvenient, though.
It would have its uses 😛
“Biff searches for a way to deal with the cobra infestation in the plumbing.”
….who paints his bathroom that color?
@kenshin620: I think that’s the shower curtain.
@RG: I like playing music, but I wouldn’t want to be standing in the bathroom while playing it
@Chris Hallbeck: So far, you’ve featured 2 of the 3 instruments I’ve actually played. If you come up with the 3rd, I’ll know you’re spying on me.
@MadDavid – Give me a hint?
That’s an intresting bathroom.
Pertinent questions:
Does Biff wash his hands before playing the recorder?
Where is the recorder stored normally? Above the toilet?
His wall is made of cheese
Can you do violin?? Haha I play violin. It’s cool.
That would be a pretty awesome thing for door locks…I mean, unless someone was a music major or got clear video of you playing the instrument, they probably couldn’t replicate it.
@MoosePhysh: Those are good questions…
Not really. Since Biff is presumably the only one in Biffland, no one uses the recorder but him. And he would wash his hands after its use, and doesn’t put the recorder in his mouth.
Anyone having Ocarina of Time flashbacks, or is this just me?
@no name: have you forgotten the body armor one, or the barber, or the housejacking, or the carnies?
There are lots of people in Biffland. They just have the decency to stay off-camera.
That’s the wall? I thought it was the shower curtain.
@no name – I think there are quite a few people in Biffland, but, come on. Would you risk being in the same frame with Biff? Even me, doing my best to become the closest physically/thermodynamically possible thing to real-life Biff would have my doubts…
dude man, i love biff. This made me laugh really hard.
“Biff decides to put his snake charming skills to the test.”
EEEEEEWWWWWWWWWW
Actually, I saw the flute, and mentally heard the little notes Gene Wilder plays in Willy Wonka…
Hope one of those eleven notes isn’t the “Brown Note” – that was the oddest South Park episode I ever saw.