The Daily Teaser — 19-11-2015: World Toilet Day

Hmmm … 

I rarely get involved in politics, these days.

It’s just why too explosive a subject.

But Radio’s Four’s Today programme has just interviewed David, Lord Blunket, former Labour Home Secretary.

Who’s sounded very dubious, about party leader, Jeremy Corbyn.

Who I, personally, think is possibly the only principled party leader, currently in Parliament.

But there you go!

Actually, while we’re on politics?

The sign in the lower picture is on the fence surround the un-developed patch of ground: the one I’ve always felt should have no further development — commercial or residential — built on it.

If you, like I would wish to object, feel free to do what I did.   Go to the listed pay on Brentwood Council’s site — http://www.brentwood.gov.uk/index.php?cid=47 — click on ‘View Applications,’ feed in the relevant reference number — 15/01084/FUL — then leave a comment‡: making sure to tick the ‘Send Me an Email’ box, so they send a confirming email.   Then you can forward that to planning@brentwood.gov.uk.

The more the merrier, frankly … !

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The Brentwood Gazette’s Weekly Teaser — 19-11-2014: World Toilet Day

Well, THAT was embarrassing: I managed to mix up my shifts … !

Basically, I thought I was working, today: and it turns out I wasn’t … !

BOY, did I feel like a lemon … !

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The Daily Teaser — 19-11-2012: World Toilet Day … !

You know, I’ll be frank — and why not — and tell you my nephew, Jude — that’s him, over there ☞ — has learnt all sorts of things, these past couple of years.

Including — at last night’s family dinner — the fact he knew how to play Peek-a-boo.   From behind the curtain … !

You’ve got to love that, haven’t you … ?

Bless ’im … !

Let’s get moving on, shall we … ?

It IS a themed Teaser, after all.

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Yesterday’s Teaser saw both Tim and Debbiº putting in their answers.

With Debbi tell us about her history of watching Dr Who, yesterday saw her bagging 6 out of 6, and Tim bagging 4.

Let’s see how they — and you — do with today’s rather lavatorial questions*, shall we?

Here they are, along with the ‘How To’, License and video … 

Q1) 19th November is — obviously — World Toilet Day: according to whom … ?

Q2) More to the point, this year’s World Toilet Summit is to be held in which South African city … ?

Q3) Garderobe was a Medieval word for toilet: especially ones in castles.   The term — or room, depending on who you ask — ALSO described a storage room for what … ?

Q4) What — usually — would be the first thing activated on the Space Shuttle, once astronauts unbuckled themselves in orbit … ?

Q5) Honey trucks and honey wagons are terms used for the tankers that empty what … ?

Q6) And finally … in which year did the Great Stink — guess what of — prompt Parliament to build the London sewer system …?

And here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …

Q1) 18th November, 1307, saw who famously shoot an apple from his son’s head … ?

A1) William Tell.

Q2) This was what’s now in which country … ?

A2) Switzerland.

Q3) Many years later, 18th November, 1963, saw the first push button telephones go into commercial use.   Which company’s labs designed them … ?

A3) Bell Telephone.

Q4) 18th November, 1978, saw the date of the notorious Jonestown Massacre: when 918 followers of Reverend Jimmy Jones killed themselves with poisoned what … ?

A4) Cyanide laced Flavor-Aid.   (Although I’ve seen mentions made, over the years, to Kool-Aid: it’s a similar product, from what I can see, and I’m assuming those references to have used “Kool-Aid” as a generic term.)

Q5) 18th November, 1987, saw 27 people killed in a fire: in which London station … ?

A5) King’s Cross.

Q6) And finally … 18th November, 1903, saw the US and Panama sign a treaty: giving the USA control over what … ?

A6) The Panama Canal.

Enjoy those, everyone.

I’ll leave you with this quote from Sir Joseph Bazagette, the man who designed London’s sewerage system.

“The principle, in building a sewer system, was of diverting the cause of the mischief to a locality where it can do no mischief.”   

Sir Joseph Bazalgette.

And with THIS tune, I found on YouTube … 

I SHOULD add tha both Grub and Kevin D suggested alternatives.

Kevin suggested Up and Around The Bend … 

And Grub put in Yellow River … 

You can SEE a theme, can’t you … ?

*        There’s actually a serious side to all this, of course.   There’s parts of the world with seriously bad sanitation.

º        I have to admit, I started watching it, several years earlier: I still have vague childhood memories of the nightmares I had, after watching Jon Pertwee in Infernoª: I’d’ve been Jude’s age, when that one was broadcast … !

ª        Actually, Debbi … ?   I’ve recently managed to see another of Jon Pertwee’s earlier stories, called The Ambassadors of Death.   It’s WELL worth watching: you LITERALLY wouldn’t believe it’s the same series, it’s so very different: on a par with Edge Of Darkness, in terms of feel … 

The Ambassadors of Death 1-7 by GOLDTARDIS