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Saturday, May 06, 2006

Disco Poop- Son of Jeopardy Winner wins debate

Hey Gang!
I am back and almost in fighting form after some serious stomach issues on the flight home. I will share some stories of my wonderful trip as they come, but it is not time yet. Today I was doing a little personal doctoring and Web MD wasn't really helping as much as usual. I searched bloody stools and all I came up with is that I might have colon cancer. So to google I went. At the risk of writing about low-brow stuff one too many times on this site, I would really like to share this forum that I found. It's called the Poop Report and people chat with eachother under the names of: Skiddy Poop, Disco Poop, Brown Streak and Snapper. By the way, Disco Poop's name is accompanied by a picture of Principal Skinner in a Fat Elvis costume.



To cut a long and embarassing personal story short, I have trouble going when I travel and wanted to know if I am alone in this. Turns out I am not alone and there are all sorts of theories having to do with if this is a female issue- or as my brother puts it- result of 28 years of female posturing. There are also theories about constipation when traveling coming from vibrations of cars or planes, cabin-pressure or even from your uptight, anal-retentive parents who didn't have the decency to fart around you as you as a child.

The Moderator and Über-Shitter of this site kicked off the debate saying that less-educated, rural and then blue-collar people are less likely to be shameful shitters because they had to learn to do this publically.

"I've never been that way (a Shameful Shitter). I guess, however, it's a matter of social class and occupation. Guys like me who are from blue-collar families just get used to shitting around other folks at a real early age. When I was real young, we had an outhouse (a three-holer) on the farm and my cousins and me often took a shit together. The farm schools I attended had either no stalls around the crappers or doorless stalls so you just got used to other guys being around when you took a dump."
Interesting theory...
Skiddy Poo and Brown Streak offered some pretty weak supporting material about their snobby parents resulting in their travel issues.
Then, the ultimate rebuttal that won this one came from Disco Poop. I mean, I don't think he got that name by accident:

"I don't think that your education/job necessarily has much to do with if you discuss shit or not. My dad is obsessed with shit and he's got an MBA and he won on Jeopardy. My step-dad is a doctor and he talks about shit a fair amount. On the whole I guess what you guys are saying is true a lot of the time, but not always. That or my mom's just married the two smart guys who talk about poop...."

4 Comments:

Blogger Todd said...

This issue plagued me for years. I used to go many miles and minutes out of my way to find a public toilet with some seclusion. I am recalling a particular restroom in an isolated corner of my sprawling college campus that I insisted on using if I couldn't wait to do it at home. I would be 20 minutes late for class in getting there and back, but it was worth it.

I'm over that now.

That's not Principal Skinner either, that's a character named Disco Stu:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_Stu

9:38 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

ohhhhhh Disco Stu. I have never heard of him. Silly me. I guess all those Simpsons really look a like, don't they?

2:18 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

hey kate, when i travel i think i'm stressed about forgetting stuff since i always do and that causes me to not relax and therefore a swollen belly full of hostages awaiting release.

so, my theory is stress... i guess.

9:44 PM  
Blogger Katie said...

Rudzik
Not sure if you'll ever see this comment, but you totally reminded me of when you announced that there was a pig and a turkey fighting to see who would come out first.

3:57 PM  

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