George: What did they do for toilet paper in the Civil War?

Jerry: Why?

George: I wonder what Toilet Paper was like in the 1860's, did they carry it in rolls, in their Duffel bags?

Jerry: Everything with you comes down to toilet paper.

George: What?

Jerry: That's always the question with you, why is that always your focus?

George: Alright then what did they do?

Jerry: I don't know, maybe, they gave out big loose clumps to all the soldiers.

George: I think it would be nice if there was some sort of Historical record for it.

Jerry: Maybe they should have a toilet paper Museum would you like that?,so we could see all the toilet paper advancements down through ages,toilet paper during the crusades, the development of the perforation, the 1st six-pack!

-and-

George: Take toilet paper for example. Do you realize that toilet paper has
not changed in my lifetime? It's just paper on a cardboard roll, that's it.
And in ten thousand years, it will still be exactly the same because really,
what else can they do?

Siena: That's true. There really has been no development in toilet paper.

George: And everything else has changed. But toilet paper is exactly the same,and will be so until we're dead.

Siena: Yeah, you're right George. What else can they do?

George: It's just paper on a roll, that's it. And that's all it will ever be.

Siena: Wow.

George: You find this interesting, don't you?

Siena: Yes. yes, I do.

I love this show.

Is that for fat people who can't reach?

Eew.

Forget I asked. On second thought, I don't want to know.

Before toilet paper, people used shit rags, and no, not vile newspapers.

I realize this'll gross out most, especially those of you who've never lived around infants swaddled in cloth diapers, but I bought a supply of old towels from a defunct motel several years ago and sliced them up. I hate toilet paper and I am fundamentally a cheap bastard. Also, I live alone. My bumwipe pail has tight lid and its contents get rinse washed before they hit my machine.

tojo2000 wrote:

There was a post on the dwindling light of Cruel to a forum about just this subject, and yes, it appears that there are some people who really can't reach.  As a pretty hefty person myself, the fear brought about by that article scared me enough to start taking things a little more seriously.

Yeah, my negative experience with the extend-a-wipe pr0n inspired me, as well.


Well, that and my 4-y-o male nephew asking when I was having my baby.

choad wrote:

Before toilet paper, people used shit rags, and no, not vile newspapers.

Why do you think that the Sears Catalog was so popular in the Midwest for about 50 years?

Before that it was all dried corn cobs. Until you have scrubbed your bung with a dried corn cob in an outhouse during a 10 below Indiana winter you haven't lived life to the fullest. The experience alone would turn the most dedicated tree-sitting Earth Firster into a Central Park Left Conservative.

GooberMcNutly wrote:

choad wrote:

Before toilet paper, people used shit rags, and no, not vile newspapers.

Why do you think that the Sears Catalog was so popular in the Midwest for about 50 years?

Before that it was all dried corn cobs. Until you have scrubbed your bung with a dried corn cob in an outhouse during a 10 below Indiana winter you haven't lived life to the fullest. The experience alone would turn the most dedicated tree-sitting Earth Firster into a Central Park Left Conservative.

Is there any chance you're my mom?