You can sell your urine? I'm such a moron -- I've been throwing mine away! The body is a goldmine!

Lubriderm Seriously Sensitive is pretty nongreasy

I guess we all have our own tastes :p

maybe they do the "Ivy League" wash?

The student paper linked to seems to mainly be supported by the work of Charles Gerba. The student paper references this story, where Gerba is quoted as saying:
Well, I went to Wal-Mart tonight and bought a $1 bottle of red food coloring. After putting much much more than was neccessary in my toilet, I held a blank piece of printer paper directly over the toilet (about 1/2 inch above the seat). After flushing the toilet, the paper turned out to be completely blank.

So, it did not work for me.


(edit:

I forgot to mention -- I stirred the toilet water up with an unused drinking straw, so as to mix and distribute the red dye evenly)

Let's hear it for empiricism!!

I discovered an error in your lab procedures, Juju. You would have gotten positive results if you'd used the correct media.

Since you used food coloring, you should have held a cake with white buttercream frosting over the toilet. Food color sticks to frosting really well ...

Maybe it's a microbiological thing.

congratulations, juju. you have officially supplanted elspode as the poster of the funniest thing i've ever heard.


kudos!

Maybe it is the type of toilet. With the low-flows and all that non-sense today, maybe there isn't enough water flow for piss mist to happen. We should attempt the same experiment with a gas station public toilet. You know the kind: no tank, rocket engine thrust, will eat entire oranges with no clogging, etc.

Yeah, I thought about that. I have a "low flow" toilet, so perhaps that is why it didn't work?

The guy definitely seems to be for real. His homepage is here, and it lists the insane amount of scientific articles he's published. The article in question seems to be:<blockquote>Gerba, C.P., C. Wallis, and J.L. Melnick. 1975. Microbial hazards of household toilets. Droplet production and the fate of residual organisms. Appl. Microbiol. 30:229-237.</blockquote>But unfortunately, my university library account only allows me to access articles from 1998 to present (via the internet, that is).

I guess I could try it with a gas station toilet, but I'd feel kind of silly sneaking in there with a piece of paper and a bottle of food coloring. What would I say if I were caught? "Just an incognito FBI operation on your toilet, ma'am. Nothing to worry about."

Put the items in your coat pocket on the way in. Throw the stuff away in the bathroom trash can.

Yes, yes, of course.

I'm sure as hell not braving the freezing cold for it, though. If I decide to, it will be at a more opportune moment. :)

While living in the dorm, we had one of those gas station-style toilets go completely insane on us. Someone flushed it, the valve broke, and we found ourselves with an ever-flushing toilet.

At first, we were a bit frightened -- it isn't every day that you come across something of this nature -- but after a coming to the conclusion that the campus repair guy wouldn't be around for awhile, we decided that a constantly flushing toilet might be a good thing to have around.

It is not. All the positives of a never-ending water stream are nulled by the fact that while sitting on it you are sprayed with, yes, a fine mist. My roommate was the first to try it and return with the bad news: yes, everything is swept away without any need to push a button, "but you're going to walk away with a drippy ass".