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FEEDBACK'S random-access piling system has thrown up Wayne Plummer's intriguing photograph of a sign in a hotel in Saffron Walden, UK. "This en-suite bathroom," it declares, "is fitted with a Saniflow toilet which will not allow alien products to pass through its system..."
Has the European Space Agency been informed of this advanced detector of extraterrestrial matter?
Max Lang was the first reader to forward a photo of a sign in a cycleway reading "Caution: signage in cycle way". Yes. Tautologies are true. Why, though?
RESPONSES to our sceptical inquiry into figures for annual consumption of toilet paper (3 May) continue to fill our virtual mailbag. Ian Buchanan follows up on an observation we quoted that "the British Army stocked toilet paper on the assumption that the soldier would use three sheets per ...
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