Toilet humour
Public reference to bodily functions such as urination and defecation is taboo in many cultures and thus arouses intense anxiety in many people. For this reason, there is a whole sub-genre of humour, toilet humour based around excretion. This genre is particularly popular with children.
Many artists have made their names promulgating toilet humour. Much of the lyrical content of avant garde rock musician Frank Zappa's songs revolved around toilet humour, eg, "Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow" (from the album Apostrophe). The humour of the animated series South Park also consists largely of toilet humour, even going so far as to have a talking piece of excrement as a major character. Dr. Slump, a manga from Akira Toriyama (the creator of Dragon Ball), also had a strong scatological bent.
Toilet humour also refers to jokes around modesty, such as if one is seen naked or in his/her undergarments. It can also refer to jokes revolving around the incontinence of infants and young children.
Many forms of toilet humour involve euphemisms for excretion, such as the following:
- Freshen my Snapple
- A French whistle
- Breaking the seal
- Change water on the goldfish
- Draining the dragon
- Draining the main vein
- Draining the radiator
- Draining the one-eyed monster
- Draining down the system
- Go pee pee
- Going to water my horse
- Leak the lizard
- Lower the water level
- Number one
- Pass water
- Piddle (considered a coarse expression in some quarters)
- Pit stop
- Pointing Percy at the porcelain
- Punish the porcelain
- Release the pressure
- Refresh the body
- Relieve yourself
- Seeing a man about a dog (or a horse)
- Shaking hands with the vicar
- Shaking the dew off the lily
- Siphon the python
- Sprinkle
- Tinkle
- Steering Stanley to the stainless steel
- Syphon the python
- Taking a leak
- Taking a pee
- Taking a piss (considered a coarse expression in some quarters)
- Taking a slash
- Taking a whiz
- Training Thomas on the terracotta
- Twinkle
- Visit Uncle Charley
- Void my bladder
- Going to walk my snake
- Water my weasel
- Write my name in the water
- Doing some spring cleaning
- Back one out
- Blasting a dookie
- Cutting rope
- Poo Pooing
- Dropping anchor
- Dropping the weights
- Dropping a bomb
- Dropping a deuce
- Dropping a hoopsnake
- Dropping bass ("base" as in the opposite of treble. Not the fish.)
- Dropping some friends off at the pool
- Dropping the Browns off at the Super Bowl
- Dropping the kids off at the pool
- Feeding the seagulls (politer version of "Feeding the shitehawks")
- Filling the bowl
- Giving birth
- Going poop poop
- Launching torpedoes
- Laying a cable
- Laying a turd
- Lose some weight (Also used in urination)
- Making logs (or a log)
- Making waves
- Makin' bears
- Number two
- Pebble-dashing the porcelain
- Pinching off a loaf
- Pinching a yam
- Taking a brew
- Taking a crap (see also Mr. Thomas Crapper)
- Taking a dump
- Taking a shit (a coarse expression, not a euphemism)
- Unloading a batch of cigars
- Anal thunder
- Ass-music
- Fart
- Beef-cloud
- Blow a big one
- Blow off
- Botty burp
- Break wind
- Bull snort
- Bust ass
- Choke a donkey
- Chemical warfare
- Cut the cheese
- Drop one's guts (as in "Who dropped their guts?")
- Erupting the anal volcano
- Grunt (as in "Who grunted?")
- Launching a growler
- Let off a howler
- Let off a stinker
- Let 'er rip
- Man Queef (Extremely vulgar)
- Number four
- Pass gas
- Pass wind
- Dirty bomb
- Trouser cough
- Barfing
- Blowing chunks
- Bow down before the porcelain god (On some occasions, the worshipper vows to the god never to drink again.)
- Chunder
- Date Porcelain Patty
- Driving the porcelain bus
- Feed the fish (when seasick)
- Food Escape!
- Hurling
- Make like Mount St. Helens
- Number three
- Paint the sidewalk
- Regurgitate
- Revisit dinner
- Park the tiger
- Puking
- Snow bank pizza
- Spewing
- Spraying McDonalds (as in "Did somebody spray McDonalds?")
- Calling Huey (or Ralph) on the big white phone
- Talking to the porcelain telephone
- Talking to the weeds
- Technicolour yawn
- Un-eat
- Upchuck
- Yakking
- Yorxing
- Throwing up
- Jason Pollock
- Make a hideous jiffy bag
Ambiguous
The following are used as intentionally ambiguous terms for a visit to a bathroom/toilet to urinate, defecate, or both:
- Going to hit the head (Naval Term)
- Going to the can
- Going to the loo/bathroom
- Going where even the king goes alone
- Going where even the emperor must go on foot
- Paying a visit
- Powdering one's nose
- Taking a biological break
- Taking a constitutional
- Using the facilities
- Answering nature's call
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