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From: Bobbie Giordano
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 17:22:02 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: More on Why Harp Players Seem Inferior To The Band

On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Harmonica John Frazer wrote:

> At 2:48 PM 9/12/96, Bobbie Giordano wrote:
> >
> >if this confrontation took place during break in the restroom, would that
> >make you a John Popper?
>
> I would like to go on record as not liking the bathroom called a "john"
>
> BTW did you know that term is used because the guy who invented the flush
> toilet's name was one John Crapper. I vote we call it a crapper instead.

Sorry, but you'll have to find another reason why "john" is used to refer
to water closets [toilets, commodes, or the rooms in which they reside.]

The man's name was not John, but "Thomas" Crapper, an Englishman in the
plumbing business living from late 1800's to the early 1900's. Although
he held several patents for plumbing devices, [including a manhole cover...
what a guy!] three for water closets, in fact, there is no known proof
that he actually invented the "flush toilet". Another guy named Giblin
held the patent to the "flushing device" for the toilet, which Crapper
may have bought, in order to use in his own products.

In fact, oddly enough [and certainly odd enough to appear on Harp-L,] it
seems the Brits have been at the fore of flushing, or rather, is that
four-flushing? Whatever, here may be your answer John...the first person
credited with inventing the water closet was Sir John Harrington in 1596,
a godson of Queen Elizabeth [Hmm... a Royal Four-Flusher.]

Take my word for it, I have a degree in Interior Design. I know these
things. I also know how to find them on the Net...the URL is:
http://www.lick.pvt.k12.ca.us/Lick/courses/intro/h2/plumbing/Water.html

How to relate this to harps is the tough question, apart from journeying
back to those wonderful days of Rocket's Pocket in the Bathroom. Except,
as I have been interested in Bernoulli's theory of fluid dynamics and
stuff like the related Venturi Effect, air pressure differentials, and
such as relating to note bending and overbending [sorry about the term;
I use it cuz it's easier to use than overblowing/overdrawing, and cuz I
think it describes what's happening anyway,] I'll just throw this one out.

An interesting thing is that as the pressure drops below the water when
you flush the commode, the fluid's natural tendency is to begin swirling
in counterclockwise direction. Try and see...I've yet to find a toilet
do otherwise. Learned that from a local meteorologist years ago while
discussing hurricane wind patterns, which are counterclockwise around a
low pressure system, BTW. Now I wish I could apply that to, say, reed
layout in a harmonica. Hmmm.......

Well, gotta go! And when ya gotta go...........

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