Month: March 2005

  • Houston’s glass public toilet

    Updated, see below.

    A while back, Jake posted about a public restroom in Switzerland that was made out of one-way glass. Well, apparently there’s one in Houston now; my friend Kerry sent me the pictures in email this morning.

    Here’s what it looks like from the outside:

    Exterior of Houston's glass public toilet

    And, here’s the view from the inside:

    Interior of Houston's glass public toilet

    Man, that’s just wrong. I just couldn’t use it, no way.

    Update: These are the photos from the original Switzerland toilet; looks like they’re being recycled again. So, take this all with a grain of salt. What’s funny is that I first heard of this (and then got the email) from people at work, and it’s making the rounds on other sites as well (a quick search on Google pulls them up), so there may be an actual Houston toilet; who knows.

  • Boss Hogg: Linguist

    Random fun fact for the day: Sorrell Booke, the actor who played Boss Hogg in the Dukes of Hazzard television show, was fluent in five(!) languages and served in the Korean War as a counterintelligence officer. Who would’ve guessed? All I could dig up for what languages he was fluent in were English (obviously) and Japanese; I’m curious as to what the others are.

    Sources: IMDB, Wikipedia.