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Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Pooper Tuesday

posted by on February 5 at 16:46 PM

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Does this happen to other people: You have to take a dump, and you go sit on the toilet. And you feel yourself… part with something significant. Something considerable. You’re sure of it. You were distinctly conscious of its leave taking—distinctly—and it was no small matter.

But when you look down into the toilet… there’s nothing there.

I assume this phenomenon has something to do with trajectory and velocity, with form and function, with bowl design and bottom position. Does this happen to others? Or is it just me? If it does happen to others, it seems to me that ought to be a term for this phenomenon.

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Your butt is supposed to sit on the toilet, not your head.

Posted by Boomer in NYC | February 5, 2008 5:49 PM
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Yeah I am not Alone!!!

Posted by mickey in AR | February 5, 2008 5:50 PM
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A "huckabee" perhaps?

Posted by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me | February 5, 2008 5:51 PM
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This phenomenon is often referred to as "ghost shit," or as my high school world history teacher Mr. Malchow called it, "ghost poopie."

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ghost+turd

Posted by Chris | February 5, 2008 5:51 PM
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Posted by banjoboy | February 5, 2008 5:54 PM
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santorum

Posted by adrian | February 5, 2008 5:55 PM
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Sometimes it's hiding down the pipe. Fluash and watch. Please keep us posted.

Posted by left coast | February 5, 2008 5:57 PM
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Very often caused by dehydration. Not enough fluids to move things along, so something small feels like something very big.

Hydrate, D.

Posted by Bauhaus | February 5, 2008 6:00 PM
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Aside from the sock missing in the dryer, this has been one of the great mysteries of my life. I was always too afraid to discuss it. You, Dan, in a Huffingtonian way, are fearless. Thank you. This was a personal breakthrough.

Posted by Jubilation T. Cornball | February 5, 2008 6:01 PM
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I'd call it a Giuliani - like his campaign, it disappeared without a trace.

Posted by Mr. X | February 5, 2008 6:02 PM
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That's the old phantom feces... or maybe its "phantom pheces". Though, I don't think that misspelling for the sake of alliteration makes for good nomenclature.

Posted by Andrew | February 5, 2008 6:09 PM
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Posted by chicagogaydude | February 5, 2008 6:11 PM
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yes Dan, this happens to others - it's called ghost poopie.

Posted by mike long | February 5, 2008 6:16 PM
14

Yeah, I've always called it "the phantom"

Posted by blah | February 5, 2008 6:20 PM
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That, sir, is the finest euphemism I've heard in recent memory. I submit "part with something significant" to the "reasonably popular but not annoyingly so" vaults of the English language.

Posted by mac | February 5, 2008 6:28 PM
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No.

Posted by Ryan | February 5, 2008 6:33 PM
17

Pics, please!

Posted by Ari Spool | February 5, 2008 6:42 PM
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We knew this was coming - just a matter of time, and Dan wanting to share tooooo much.

I have no answers, and can't even conceive what you are talking about.

Taking a shit is taking a shit. And the shit is just there with the glory of a thousand variations.

Talk to your doctors...both the butt doctor and the head doctor.

Posted by Essex | February 5, 2008 6:44 PM
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I don't need to hear about another bowel movement of yours Dan.

Posted by MrEdCT | February 5, 2008 6:45 PM
20

Are you stoned today?

Posted by Gitai | February 5, 2008 6:48 PM
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It's blatantly and obviously a side effect of getting fucked up the arse. Ahem.

Posted by AshPlant | February 5, 2008 6:52 PM
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You're shitting out pieces of your soul.

Posted by sockknome | February 5, 2008 7:00 PM
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This is a classic case of a "ghost shit"

Posted by poop fairy | February 5, 2008 7:02 PM
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My college roommate had a Shit List poster that accurately accounted for every possible type out there, with illustrations. No, you're not alone. Yes, it's the Ghost shit. Not to be confused with the Phantom (that's when it appears mysteriously and noone will admit who put it there).

The real head scratcher is: why is your pee so freakin green, Dan?!?

Posted by Iceberg | February 5, 2008 7:14 PM
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D:

Posted by Lee | February 5, 2008 7:33 PM
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The Immaculate Defecation?

Posted by Brooklyn Reader | February 5, 2008 7:45 PM
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It only happens to bottom boys.

Posted by Catman | February 5, 2008 7:50 PM
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Seriously, thanks for bringing this up. It's happened to me on a variety of toilets the last few years.

Posted by Catman | February 5, 2008 7:51 PM
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What's really weird is how often the 'phantom faeces' coincides with the cleanskin wipe. Spooky.

Posted by Bento | February 5, 2008 7:55 PM
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I generally call it constipation. Try eating more fiber.

Posted by MRP | February 5, 2008 8:30 PM
31

Obama just said: "The movement is real" to great applause.

Posted by hairyson | February 5, 2008 8:51 PM
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I agree with the Poop Fairy, except I use a slightly more delicate term: "ghost poop." Dan, you are NOT alone.

Posted by sarita | February 5, 2008 9:06 PM
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I agree with the Poop Fairy, except I use a slightly more delicate term: "ghost poop." Dan, you are NOT alone.

Posted by sarita | February 5, 2008 9:06 PM
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In my family we call it "sending a message to michael."

Posted by Gurldoggie | February 5, 2008 10:10 PM
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Yes, we are not alone, we all huckabee from time to time (depending on toilet design).

Proposal: "To huckabee"-a have a bowel movement that apparently has disappeared into a toilet due to the design of the exit pipe and the trajectory of extrusion.

Posted by Robert | February 5, 2008 10:19 PM
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LOL of the day. Thank you Dan.

Posted by Mrs. Jarvie | February 5, 2008 10:27 PM
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It's called flatulence.

By the way, I have a new word:
crap'nel: n. The popcorn hull you find when you're washing your butt after a night of eating popcorn.

Posted by SeattleBrad | February 5, 2008 10:29 PM
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Who's the woman whose book titles all begin with an initial - Sue Grafton? "X-Creta U-ve S-caped A-gain". Must B A D-laid Superbowl Phenom. Your post sounds as if it were written by William's sister, Sharon Tell. Stop it!

Posted by RHETT ORACLE | February 5, 2008 10:36 PM
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As anyone who has ever accidentally dropped a coin in a toilet can tell you, it was probably an exceptionally dense turd that sank straight to the bottom like a quarter, settling neatly in the very bottom of the bowl. As you flush, watch. I wouldn't be surprised if your turd gives you one last peek before beginning her long trip to the Pacific. It's kind of like tapping the glass of an eel exhibit at the aquarium to get the nasty buggers to poke their heads out.

By the by, your toilet water is green like antifreeze...

Posted by Shit ANALyst | February 5, 2008 11:16 PM
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Call it an ECB


A big ole' turd hiding from the real world.

Posted by ecce homo | February 6, 2008 12:58 AM
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christ, savage.

Posted by Aaron | February 6, 2008 1:04 AM
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Yeah, I've been there: feeling empty, with a poignant longing for closure.

Posted by saxfanatic | February 6, 2008 3:05 AM
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Perhaps you should talk to Kimya Dawson for some advice.

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=121734

Posted by mattro2.0 | February 6, 2008 7:36 AM
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Huckabee: When shit disappears.

Instead of asking "do you swallow?" You can simply ask "Huckabee?" so you know it's ok to shoot in the strangers mouth behind the bushes.

When you're getting a blow job in a video booth and all your jizz disappears into the mouth at the side of the wood paneling, he's Huck-a-beed all of your semen.

When a prostitute/hustler/Rent-Boy steals all of your belongings you can simply say, "he Huck-a-beed all of my shit."

Posted by Alex | February 6, 2008 8:03 AM
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I call those "Hoffas", as in Jimmy.

Posted by michael strangeways | February 6, 2008 10:30 AM
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or Earhardts...or, if you're in the mood to be really obscure, "Judge Craters"

Posted by michael strangeways | February 6, 2008 10:31 AM
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Or the opposite, when you think not much has happened, only to find a baseball bat has somehow appeared in the bowl.

Posted by John_Bigboote | February 6, 2008 11:17 AM

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