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[Beebo]

Blackadder II has the best description of a privie.
Mrs. Pants: But what about the privies?
Blackadder: Um, well, what we are talking about in privy terms is the latest in front wall fresh air orifices combined with a wide capacity gutter installation below.
Mrs. Pants:You mean you crap out the window?
Blackadder: Yes.
Mrs. Pants: Well in that case we'll definitely take it. I can't stand those dirty indoor things.

 

[Paulus]

As in ''some glaikit wee bampot just boaked in the cludgie''....

Translation please for us southerners

 

[classic33]

What about The Crapper.

 

[raleighnut]

As in Thomas although that's another myth (before its pointed out I hasten to add, although it did make the term more popular)

 

[Brandane]

Translation please for us southerners

Some stupid little fool has just been sick in the toilet . More useful lessons in being multi lingual at:
http://glaswegian.info/

 

[Ganymede]

As in Thomas although that's another myth (before its pointed out I hasten to add, although it did make the term more popular)

Was it nominative determinism? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism

 

[raleighnut]

Was it nominative determinism? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism

No the word crap was around much earlier (thanks Stephen Fry/ QI)

 

[Ganymede]

No the word crap was around much earlier (thanks Stephen Fry/ QI)

That's what I meant - Thomas Crapper was destined to work with crap due to his name...

From the Wiki page:

The term nominative determinism had its origin in the 'Feedback' column of the British popular science magazine New Scientist in 1994:

"We recently came across a new book, Pole Positions - The Polar Regions and the Future of the Planet, by Daniel Snowman. Then, a couple of weeks later, we received a copy ofLondon Under London - A Subterranean Guide, one of the authors of which is Richard Trench. So it was interesting to see Jen Hunt of the University of Manchester stating in the October issue of The Psychologist: "Authors gravitate to the area of research which fits their surname." Hunt's example is an article on incontinence in the British Journal of Urology by A. J. Splatt and D. Weedon.[2] (This really does exist. We've checked it)."

 

[classic33]

As in Thomas although that's another myth (before its pointed out I hasten to add, although it did make the term more popular)

Also the inventor of the dual syphon toilet flush.

 

[Ganymede]

Have to just quote most of the rest of that Wiki entry coz it's funny, though nothing to do with poo or spelling errors (from which latter theme this thread has strayed grievously):

An earlier and widely cited instance of the idea that name may significantly influence choice or behaviour is contained in Carl Jung's seminal 1952 paper on Synchronicity:

"We find ourselves in something of a quandary when it comes to making up our minds about the phenomenon which Stekel calls the 'compulsion of the name'. What he means by this is the sometimes quite gross coincidence between a man's name and his peculiarities or profession. For instance ... Herr Feist (Mr Stout) is the food minister, Herr Rosstäuscher (Mr Horsetrader) is a lawyer, Herr Kalberer (Mr Calver) is an obstetrician ... Are these the whimsicalities of chance, or the suggestive effects of the name, as Stekel seems to suggest, or are they 'meaningful coincidences'?"[4]
Jung listed striking instances among psychologists — including himself:

"Herr Freud (Joy) champions the pleasure principle, Herr Adler (Eagle) the will to power, Herr Jung (Young) the idea of rebirth…"[4]
Though various social psychologists and others may have argued that a name can indeed significantly influence a life, New Scientist itself appeared finally to adopt a more equivocal position:

"Let the last word go to Andrew Lover, who writes to us expressing the earnest hope that nominative determinism is a real phenomenon. We hope so, too, young Lover."[5]

 

[Roadrider48]

But are cyclists like Bears....

Well, mountain bikers do "go" in the woods sometimes.

 

[roadrash]

I usually just say going for an eartha kitt or a gypsies kiss

 

[stephec]

I sit on the throne to see Mr Brown off to the sea.

 

[raleighnut]

I sit on the throne to see Mr Brown off to the sea.

But does he have a periscope

 

[TheDoctor]

Dropping the kids off at the pool.