Sunday, September 20, 2009

#10--"The greatest necessity of the age!"

2.) I searched a lot of different consumer products that yielded no results before I finally landed on toilet paper. Moist toilet paper, specifically. Charmin Fresh Mates, Cottonelle Fresh Rollwipes, and Quilted Northern Fresh and Moist Wipes, to be exact. Septic safe! But wait, I want old-school toilet paper. The twenty-first century has such strange ideas; travel back with me to......(dun, dun, dunnnnn!) The 1990s.
But the cutting-edge toilet paper R & D was prevalent in the 90s as well. In the 90s, we found out that there was no wood in toilet paper (paper is made from trees, trees are wood, toilet paper). It's very confusing.
3.) So now, I'm curious. I'm toilet paper crazy; I can't get it out of my mind. It's all I can see.


(Photo provided by Flickr & "stevendepolo")
So, I went to the Biography Resource Center, and typed in Joseph Gayetty, developer of toilet paper as we know it. Nothing. Zero articles. Wikipedia is king.

1 comment:

  1. Cutting edge and toilet paper are two words that should NEVER be used in the same sentence. *shudder*

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