THE PORCELAIN GOD - A SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE TOILET by JULIE HORAN
Review by Ancestry Worship Genealogy
DO YOU WANT TO LAUGH OUT LOUD ? STUN YOUR FRIENDS WITH FASCINATING TOILET FACTS WHILE EATING THAT BBQ? (On the old television show MARRIED WITH CHILDREN, character AL BUNDY'S toilet flush was quite the punctuation point! Ever since we can talk about this, can't we?)
THE PORCELAIN GOD by Julie L. Horan made me laugh out loud again and again. And, after I lent the book to a male friend, he felt free to ask me what experience I had with using BLUEING in the wash - his white undies you know! Seriously, DID CIVILIZATION actually start with the INVENTION OF THE TOILET?
Believe it or not, people used to worship gods and goddesses who ruled the potty and bowels.
We all have them, we all poop, and then pretend we don't.
Get this! THE GERMANIC tribes hid valuable possessions beneath their potty trenches... sailors went naked up the "head" and held on for dear life as the boat tossed and turned so they could go poo and not stain their clothes... Kings squeezed themselves down the hole to hide from attack and some ran through the sewers below to the river... and for a time, after a female pope was discovered, popes were inspected for maleness while sitting on a throne...
Would you perhaps enjoy using a chamber pot with your least favorite politicians face down in the bottom?
OK I'll leave out the gross stuff... Go get the book!
Christine
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