Misc. 51: Potty is the Key

After paying our obeisance to that master of mystery Alistair MacLean  (Fear is the key) we are ready to embark on a most exciting journey……… to the Rest Room.

This is the same place that in the previous generation used to be called toilet or a little euphemistically, bathroom. Our forefathers used to refer to the facility rather grandly as lavatory. The Indian Railways preferred the quaint term latrine.

In recent years there was a concerted marketing attempt to spruce up the image of this place, notably by EID Parry who applied the appellation Glamour Room to this place of waste disposal. This I guess was meant to conjure up images of nubile nymphets in varying stages of deshabille. What these delightful creatures were doing behind closed doors is anybody’s guess. Tell me if they are in distress. I will barge right in.

Generally speaking two types of functions are performed in them but we won’t go into them , however pressing. The Bible itself with its 4000 year long history only mentions about two specific instances of the second function.

The first honorable mention goes to king Saul of Israel whose one big occupation was hunting down David. Here he was with 3000 men, and his bowels began to move – not with compassion for David-  but rather with moans of a low down biological activity.  It is just as well that we did not have Arnab Goswami around that time. Can you imagine his team of videographers descending  on the cave with arc lights and all with Goswami himself bellowing from the mouth of the cave with all his might ” the nation wants to know what the king of Israel is doing in there”!

Now why did I start on this delicate subject, in which everybody engages almost on a daily basis, but nobody wishes to discuss?

Oh, I know. I want to go!