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Ray's Japanese Toilet Monday, November 5, 2007 • read strip Viewing 179 comments:

At this point I am awaiting some sort of Germany-esque trip to Japan. Ray can enjoy weird shit, and Teodor can... well, Teodor can cross his arms and look all kinds of furious the whole time.

I think every shit would be weird with this thing.

Not one comment about the helmet. We are completely unphazed by the helmet component to the Japanese toilet.

Says the guy who's never received a serious toilet-related head injury.

Also, says the guy who didn't bother to read as far as comment 12.

I should have said, comment 12 .

REAL, serious, old school Japanese toilets are more like sideways urinals that you have to squat over to use, and in public places they usually don't have toilet paper (you have to provide your own)

I hope that isn't foreshadowing the decline of the free toilet paper market in the US. I, for one, don't want to have to remember that when I leave the house...

Tomorrow has made a phone call to today.

You'll get used to the three seashells after a while.

rhododendron leaves also work quite well.

NOW I HAVE TO THINK ABOUT SLY STALLONE'S BOWEL MOVEMENTS.

At his age, I bet that's pretty much all he thinks about too.

wow. the above comment isn't chubby worthy until you read it out loud a couple times, putting emphasis on different parts of the sentence.

If not there's always the swearing fine machine. Or Sandra Bullock's face.

Murder Death Kill!

[IMGS OFF]

Vomiting in said toilets is one of the best parts of all night drinking binges in tokyo. It's very difficult to get all of the vomit in the toilet, and if you do, you sir, are a bar star.

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Yeah he usually has trouble apologizing sincerely. Here, Ray gets hell of emotional when his foreign toilet purchase go awry.

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I'm pretty sure that they spent the entire day standing around the toilet, waiting for it to give them another word.

Still, Teodor has been pretty judgmental lately for a guy who plays his guitar into a computer website about meeting girls.

"...The Smiiiths..."

I didn't interpret it as crying; I thought he was just covering his face in embarrassment. Also an unusual emotion for Ray, though.

Maybe the fancy toilet is just putting kissing in the proper context.

As opposed to say, eating a burrito with some other orifice.

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re: This.

With the new Taco Bell Cheesy Beefy Suppository Melt!

I think pretty much all of us thought exactly this when we heard about that Cheesy Beefy thing

I miss that thing already.

the hell is with taco bell these days, they introduce a specialty product (complete with ad campaign) every two weeks and the minute somebody likes it they get rid of it

Fortunately, those products never disappear from the breast man menu.

The breast menu.

Both of these get chubbies. There needs to be more old-strip reference love around here

I was just thinking that. I was just thinking about how not many people do that.

Within the last 9 months of a strip that's 6 years old qualifies as "old." Huh.

okay now I'm starting to understand why

That explains why 90% of their menu is substantially unchanged since the chain began.

Oh yeah, the "ingredients" 90%? (i.e. lettuce, sour cream, tortillas, beef and "sauce": it doesn't really matter whether you call that a "melt", a "taco" or a "gordita".

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Ok, this is good, but where is the fucking bacon-blog?

EXUSSUMSUSLINGUS. NOUN. MEANS, EATING BURNT BACON WITH THE MOUTH.

THE READERSHIP DEMANDS BACONLINGUS

Tomorrow's blog: Bacon!

Today's bacon blog: Awesome! "...as American as Tom Sawyer lighting a corncob pipe off a tightly rolled Indian treaty." You cannot say it better than that. You cannot say anything better than that thing was said.

skoora is the maddest anyone has ever been while demanding any kind of update of anything related to bacon

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You get a chubby just because Charlie White equals awesome.

And since AssetBar is being saucy and never letting me post more than one comment on this page ever, I shall take this time to point out how much I do not care for this type of toilet.

This is a type of toilet I do not care for.

speaking of electronics being saucy, I wonder what would happen if toilet toilet revolution ever talked to Click Robot. I think it would learn sauce pretty fast. Next time someone disses its word of the day -- next days word is neither useable in polite company, nor would you be able to shoe polite company where it is branded.

WHERE'S PHILIPPE? This is the toilet of his dreams!

The bowl actually kind of looks like Philippe without a torso...

Homolingus: cannibalism
Linguslingus: kissing with tongues on the mouth
Linguslinguslinguslinguslingus: kissing with a jazz soundtrack

That's exactly what I thought! I was thinking, "Gee, Philippe looks a tad flat this morning." I can see -lingus as a suffix Philippe would get stuck on.

Actually, I think kissing with a jazz soundtrack would be Minguslingus.

lingus and lucy?

Dude, that's Guaraldi. Or really gross, I don't know which.

Chubbied, you bastard. You fuckers on the East Coast have a three hour jump on me.

Hingislingus: kissing a tennis star with the mouth, but where you kiss her is not specified.

dinguslingus: kissing a dingus with the mouth.

Pringlelingus: oh, fuck it.

ding-a-lingus: being a dope who runs on at the mouth

blingus

Aer Linguslingus - Flying on an Irish airline with your mouth.

Alternatively, interacting with the mouth of a hot Irish flight attendant.

Autooralingus: kissing one's own mouth

It's more of a 'kiss concept'

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At first glance, I just took it for granted that it was Phillipe in an anti-marijuana commercial.

Herboralingus. Noun. Putting heated-up marijuana cylinders in your mouth. Toilet Toilet Revolution does not endorse children getting jolly on H.U.M

Lingus, you are...our suffix of the week.

Yuenglingus!

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I think that no one stated it because it is obvious.

The helmet has speakers in it. They play sounds scientificaly proven to enhance the evacuation experience. This is the natural descendent of Gastro-science.

Homolingus is a good name for my next band. I'm pretty sure the definition isn't cannibalism, though.

No, it would be tonguing someone of one's own kind.

That last one should be "Minguslingus".

Damn my lack of scrolling. Still, great minds :)

The last one is MingusLingus really...if you know your Mingus albums...

Thank God someone else said this, or I was gonna have to. It is my favorite, too.

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The best part is the rad helmet. Obviously its sole function is to enable the wearer to relieve oneself while wearing a rad helmet.

...to look Rad and not hear the unbearable noises of your rice-rich diet escaping your system.

It says the word of the day up your ass, that's pretty cool.

Additional feature? Promotes accuracy by having two small holes through which to 'do your business' rather than one large one.

'Do your business' is the least crass way of saying 'take a shit' as I could think of at the moment.

but then you went ahead and said 'take a shit' anyway

It is the eighteenth hole in the mini-golf of taking a dump.

Toilet Toilet Golf Golf Golf Revolution

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I thought the toilet was Deflated Phillippe at first. I can't unsee it. The toilet still has a mouth and eyes.

Thanks for the nightmares Onstad

*Philippe

Six months later and I still see the haunting gaze of Steamrolled Philippe in that toilet every time I read this strip. Christ.

Funny that people should associate a talking toilet with Philippe.

THAT IS NOT THE STRIP TO WHICH I WANTED TO LINK AAUUGH FUCK

Let me just try this again.

There is something very wrong about the shit-hole of a Japanese toilet saying the word "oralingus" to you.

... and yet something so right. Seven-kinky!

If Lie Bot had been made in Japan, this is what he would have been.

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"Post passionate?" Isn't that just a fancy term for marriage?

Ah hah hah! Lamed, I guess, by all the married dudes who no longer get any...?

I want to say Lie Bot is continually performing mytholingus, but he doesn't have a mouth.

Was the toilet obsessed with the mouth before it became Ray's toilet? Maybe those are the only English words it knows.

the only question that matters is did he keep the receipt?

the obscure punchlines lately remind me of the days when Philippe was standing on something, neat

also I'm sure that helmet is soundproofed to ensure burritolingus goes right up your pooper

-lingus is a most ruinous suffix.

The worst part is, Japan actually has word of the day toilets. They don't have helmets and are shaped closer to regular toilets, but they do the word of the day thing.

Also, I'm told that in Japan you have to buy toilet paper from vending machines, and they come in little packets like you used to get for kleenex when you were in 4th grade.

dude, havin your own little packet of TP in Japan is totally worth it. nearly every public restroom you come across don't have it, and if it does, it's only in like a restaurant or something.

I mean, i know it sounds weird, but it's actually great. Since TP in publics isn't a standard thing, there's a market for it, which means there's competition to get product sold. So you end up with some hella nice toilet paper. Stuff practically wipes your ass for you.

chubby for knowing something about japan.

Your blood will run quick and bright when the Toilet Paper proletariat rises against you.

I don't want anything to do with toilet paper that makes you bleed.

Living in Japan must be like living in the future!

Well, tomorrow has made a phone call to today...

True, except no one actually buys the tissue, because there are people passing out packets of them with advertising inserts every couple of blocks.

Correction: no one sane does. There are snobby brand obsessed fuckers with too much money on their hands who consider it crass to get caught carrying the free kind. I want to punch these people.

The question now is: how would Toilet Toilet Revolution work?

...I mean, would you have to synchronize smells?

...I just made myself puke a little bit.

There is almost certainly a real Toilet Toilet Revolution in Japan, and I pray it never makes it to the West

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I. Pulled. Up to the house about seven or eight
And I yelled to the cabbie,
"Yo homes, smell ya later!"
I looked at my kingdom;
I was finally there
To sit on my throne
As the Prince of Bel-Air.

hahahahah buritolingus is what i am going to do this afternoon for lunch

doesn't that front hole pretty much ensure that ray's pepper gonna touch the rim?

Toilet Toilet Revolution is all about improving one's accuracy.

Are you referring to the rad chilies?

I am more referring to Ray's pepper touching the rim.

Hello! I am the toilet!

I am relieved to learn that "oralingus" is not a real word.

Oh, the alt text. TTR!!

We haven't seen Colonel Angus around these parts for years..

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The helmet, foot rests and hole placement will all prevent Ray from riding that bad boy side-saddle.

Two holes, even!
This thing is an organized, systematic, hydro-matic waste processing machine .

The voice comes right out of the rear hole.
Design flaw... or feature ?

It's like the absolute opposite of talking out of your ass - someone talks up yours.

Feels like the last seven years all over again.

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Why does it have to be the elderly?

I'm wary of knowing the answer, actually.

Teodor seems to store quite a bit of fat on his back. Is paying homage to Superintendent H. Clemens on his way to his 2012/2019 physique?

Burritollatio

Burritollatio interruptus.

Premature burritojaculation.

Burrittile dysfunction.

Burritoral Stimulation.

Ain't no need for a simulation, just eat it!

There's got to be a hidden camera show which features that thing. I'm already envisioning the pixelated junk of some Japanese business man as he jumps from the toilet in terror.

All with a Bob Saget voiceover and such as a cheesy 80s sitcom laugh track

in japan, hidden camera shows do not involve momentarily startling people in moments of privacy.

in japan, hidden camera shows involve a very stern, almost terrifying-looking gangster film director bursting in on you suddenly and spraying you in the head with a firehose while you're going about your thing. if you can finish your business, despite this intrusion, you win a prize.

and in england, the voice-over for this hose-weilding gentleman is done by 'lister' from red dwarf.

Au contraire. I saw a Japanese hidden camera show where they put a port-a-potty on a hydraulic lift in public places. The roof would pop open, the seat would rise, and the walls stayed put. When someone went in and sat down, they raised them up in the air for everyone to see.

Then the guy with the firehose blasted them off the seat.

No, I made that last part up. The first part was true, though.

I saw a thing like that, except I don't think it was in Japan, and while the person was in the portapotty, the crew would build an office around it and classily-dressed people would come in and sit down like they were in a business meeting, so that when the person came out of the bathroom they were stepping into an office meeting. It was hilarious.

I have also seen what you are talking about, though.

It's the opening of the Japanese version of "Big Brother".

Damn, I'm out of chubbies. If I were not, I would certainly give you one for the Takeshi's Castle reference.

Takeshi Kitano is the fucking man.

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Burritolingus is the best made up word ever. So good, we should start using it so that it is no longer made up.

"Burritolingus" was enough for a 5 all by itself. The rest of the comic was just gravy... er, salsa.

Chubbied for the idea of something becoming no longer made up.

Is the helmet for safety reasons or for a virtual reality-like toilet experience?

It's Japanese, so it can do both, plus groom your eyebrows.

It's Hanguri-Gusaru!

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Dude. Those toilets are no joke.

that was the creepiest thing I've seen in a fortnight. Chubby for terror.

does anyone else think that toilet seat looks a bit like philippe? I could never use a toilet seat that looked like philippes face. not only is that sick and wrong, its just not appealing in the least, especially witht the way the kid opens his mouth!

That conjured a terrible, terrible image in my mind. I am damaged goods now.

Didn't someone on this board express a desire for a Philippe-shaped dildo?

why would you remember that

why

Yep it was everyones favourite poster, retardo. He wanted it to weep as well.

I really feel like engaging in some burritolingus now.

Wouldn't Oralingus and Burritolingus be verbs as they are doing words?

No, they are nouns, because they are the act itself. They are something you perform. You don't say "Oh man I just burritolingused all over that Taco John's, dude."

I dunno, I might say that. Also, hell of props for mentioning Taco John's. Awesome place. I wish there was one in my state.

Isn't a toilet that talks about burritolingus a kind of Taco John?

HAH!
Chubby for you. That was good.

You, my friend, have made a good pun. This is a happy occasion.

I am confused and somewhat (oddly) offended that a place called Taco John's exists. How good could the food be there? Would you trust "O'Reiley's authentic Szechwan Cuisine."

Taco John's is actually about a billion times better than Taco Bell, if you ask me. Something about their food just tastes less cheap than Taco Bell's. Which isn't to say it doesn't taste cheap, hell, it's a Tex/Mex fast food place. But goddamn if Potato Oles aren't tasty as the dickens.

[IMGS OFF]

I think you did a great job personifying Oralingus and Burritolingus there, and how they're being verbs and doing words. They even look like names.

It's...Burritolingus! Homosexuals' mexican/japanese cousin.

Femmoherpolingus. Noun. Means, a woman with herpes on and around the mouth.

DINGUSLINGUS. NOUN. MEANS, CALLING SOMEONE STUPID WITH THE MOUTH.

kissing is the bomb dot com

Strip of the year, hands down.

ahh! the speaker is inside the poo hole. don't think about what it would feel like to have those gross words sent up your poop chute. it's too late for me. save yourselves.

SCRIBOLINGUS. NOUN. MEANS WRITING WORDS WITH THE MOUTH.

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Roast Beef: Doggs I Bought a Boat
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Man, I know I'm behind the times on this, but Onstad is seriously on point in this one.

I always think it's fascinating to read Onstad's writing and see the flavors of all his characters in it.

Thanks for doing all this work.

The host family I stayed with in Japan had one of these toilets, there were these arms on it with all these buttons...I still don't know what half of them did. The seat was unpleasantly squishy, like a leather arm chair.
Also, we toured Panasonic and they have a toilet that tells you what you should stop eat, how much you weigh, and then it makes fun of you in 5 different languages.