World Toilet Day: Obama Speech Marks Occasion
Ladies and gentlemen, today is World Toilet Day as if you did not know it already. Read the history of this important day and tell us what you think in the comments after reading the Obama speech (spoof) which marks the dedication of a brand new public bathroom in Washington DC.
World Toilet Day is one of those nanny state days that should never have come to be, of course, But it is here so there is nothing to do but celebrate it. The day is sponsored by the World Toilet Organization (smile) which educates the world about the importance of toilets and proper sanitation. Go figure.
They claim that one in every five children die of diarrhea, which is the sort of claim that an organization makes that wants to pump up it’s relevancy. Read for yourself here. No worries. It is their day after all.
Did you know that archeologists believe that the first toilets were used in the Indus River Valley civilization of Mohenjo-daro some 2,500 years ago? An entire history of the toilet can be found on the the Museum of Toilets right here including a timeline of milestones in the development of potties. Don’t miss it!
Oh and there are more and more links which could be shared with you today. Notice that it is a world wide phenomenon garnering more interest than the economic crisis.
As the nation has whimsically come to realize, no occasion or issue, no matter how great or small, has escaped the interest of our commander in chief. One can easily imagine the official White House greeting cards in honor World Toilet Day, a ribbon cutting ceremony with the World Toilet Organization, and a speech to mark the consecration of a new bathroom given by a president who takes speaking more seriously than governing.
We have such an Obama speech below. If it sounds a little familiar to you, it is spoofed from a far greater president’s most famous speech which also occurred on this day in 1863.
They claim that one in every five children die of diarrhea, which is the sort of claim that an organization makes that wants to pump up it’s relevancy. Read for yourself here. No worries. It is their day after all.
Did you know that archeologists believe that the first toilets were used in the Indus River Valley civilization of Mohenjo-daro some 2,500 years ago? An entire history of the toilet can be found on the the Museum of Toilets right here including a timeline of milestones in the development of potties. Don’t miss it!
Oh and there are more and more links which could be shared with you today. Notice that it is a world wide phenomenon garnering more interest than the economic crisis.
As the nation has whimsically come to realize, no occasion or issue, no matter how great or small, has escaped the interest of our commander in chief. One can easily imagine the official White House greeting cards in honor World Toilet Day, a ribbon cutting ceremony with the World Toilet Organization, and a speech to mark the consecration of a new bathroom given by a president who takes speaking more seriously than governing.
We have such an Obama speech below. If it sounds a little familiar to you, it is spoofed from a far greater president’s most famous speech which also occurred on this day in 1863.
President Obama Speech
Bathroom Dedication on World Toilet Day
Washington DC, November 19th, 2010
Four score and some 2,500 years ago our fathers brought forth on this world, a new device, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all asses are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great war on indigestion, testing whether this nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We here meet on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here give their bodily wastes that that nation might live better. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — but we can defecate — in these toilets. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled to bring them here, have consecrated them, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who invented it have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these rows of latrines we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that BMs shall not be given in vain — that each movement, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that flushes of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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