It is a sickness, people.

Gay Activists Want to Clean Up Mayor’s Mind

Flush Naugle

Help us wipe-clean Mayor Naugle’s dirty mind by sending a roll of toilet paper to city hall today!
LGBT organizations are asking everyone to let the Mayor know what you think about his outrageous characterization of our community by mailing a roll of toilet paper to his office.

Subject: Clean Up Your Act

I am sending you this roll of toilet paper in the hopes that it will help you clean up your mind and act. In the future please be more respectful and honest in describing the LGBT community instead of trafficking in stereotypes that even your own law enforcement officers dismiss.

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FLUSH NAUGLE’S BIGOTRY!

CC: Commissioners Christine Teel, Charlotte E. Rodstrom, Carlton B. Moore, Cindi Hutchinson

Sincerely Happy and Gay,
[Your name]
[Your address]

QUERY:

How can it be “bigotry” when what the mayor says is merely the TRUTH?

Gay Rights Group Launches Toilet Paper Campaign Against Florida Mayor
Monday, July 09, 2007

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Mayor Jim Naugle may be getting a lot more paperwork.

Gay rights activists in the state have launched a drive to engulf the Fort Lauderdale mayor with toilet paper to mock his comments about gay sex in public bathrooms.

“We are encouraging people to mail either a roll or several sheets of toilet paper to the mayor at City Hall to help him to wipe his dirty mind clean,” said Brian Winfield, spokesman for Equality Florida, a gay rights organization that helped start the toilet paper protest Friday.

The uproar started after Naugle’s comments in a July 4 article in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel about the city’s plan to buy a $250,000 self-cleaning robotic toilet for beachgoers. The device could be programmed with a time limit, after which the door would fly open.

In the article, Naugle was quoted as saying the toilet could prevent “homosexual activity” that has occurred at other public restrooms.

“Sometimes (public restrooms) are used for sexual activity — most of it is men meeting men because it’s same-sex people in the bathrooms,” Naugle said.

Equality Florida has provided a link on its Web site to send Naugle a virtual roll of toilet paper and listed his City Hall address for those who want to send a real roll.

Naugle said no actual toilet paper rolls have arrived at his office. However, more than 300 people have e-mailed the mayor a virtual roll, Winfield said.

“It’s an e-mail — some juvenile diagram of a toilet,” Naugle said.

Last year, police made one arrest for such activity in a beach bathroom and another at the Coral Ridge Mall, Naugle said.

marc@hubsandspokes on July 9, 2007 at 11:36 AM

I can see why so many Japanese are having mental problems these days. I’m sure glad I don’t live there.

Their robo-bathrooms had a button that you could press if you needed more time. I don’t think there was a limit to how often you could press it. I think the thought was that, if you were asleep (or, perhaps, otherwise ‘occupied’) you would not think to press the button to get more time and the door would open on you – whereas, if you were simply going to the bathroom, you’d have no problem remembering to hit the “I need more time” button.

Like I said, Japanese game shows…

marc@hubsandspokes on July 9, 2007 at 11:36 AM

If they tried that stunt in America, it would be a major lawsuit.

Well at least I learned something new which I could have lived the rest of my life without learning, and that is:

The “cracks” run in the same direction.

I would suggest just pumping some horrible music into the stalls to drive them out… although I’m having trouble coming up with any musical genre that would drive away gay men.

saint kansas on July 9, 2007 at 10:20 AM

Definitely don’t want to play any music by Judy Garland, Bette Midler, Barbra Streisand, Barry Manilow, and/or the Village People for it will be “standing room only” in the stalls. A “friend of Dorothy” extravaganza! FABULOUS!

Speaking of Kansas (Some cut & paste excerpts):

Without doubt, the first celebrity to be famously considered a gay icon was Judy Garland. Gay men of the 1950s and 1960 would use the phrase “friend of Dorothy” taken from her role in the Wizard Of Oz as an undercover password to denote their sexuality. Her film and stage appearances electrified and unified gay audiences while her personal struggles with dugs and multiple husbands (at least one of whom was gay) gave her yet more tragic appeal.

She was probably the most famous of all gay icons, a status she knew about and acknowledged. Her Carnegie Hall concerts in the early 1960s were major meetings of gay men. Her death days before the Stonewall Riots has been cited as part of the reason for intense emotions among the NY gay community in June 1969. According to legend, the famous 1969 riot at New York’s Stonewall Inn broke out on the night of Garland’s funeral. The drag queens were indeed revolting.

Bette Midler’s link to the gay community was more direct – she started her career performing in New York’s gay bath houses, earning her gay-icon immortality and the nickname “Bath House Betty.” Bizarrely, Barry Manilow was her piano player at the time while Midler managed to be funny, camp and entertaining – qualities that would have appealed to the gay community when they weren’t in a cubicle shagging.

Barbra Streisand

Streisand became a nightclub singer while in her teens. She originally wanted to be an actress and appeared in a number of Off-Off-Broadway productions, including one with then-aspiring actress Joan Rivers, but when her boyfriend Barry Dennen helped her create a club act — first performed in a gay bar in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village in 1960 — she achieved success as a singer. It was at this time that she shortened her first name to Barbra to make it more distinctive.

Gee I was getting all “flushed“!

Did someone say iToilet?

CrazyFool on July 9, 2007 at 12:55 AM

That was a great ad for the itoilet which I may get as my next purchase.

I like the Windows XPtoilet myself! See video.

I tried the Windows VistaUltimatetoilet, but it kept asking me over and over is I was sure I wanted to flush. So I went back to the WindowsXPtoilet.

Did someone say iToilet?

CrazyFool on July 9, 2007 at 12:55 AM

That was a great ad for the itoilet which I may get as my next purchase.

I like the Windows XPtoilet myself! See video.

I tried the Windows VistaUltimatetoilet, but it kept asking me over and over is I was sure I wanted to flush. So I went back to the WindowsXPtoilet.

Did someone say iToilet?

CrazyFool on July 9, 2007 at 12:55 AM

Hey CrazyFool thanks for the iToilet link.

It was a very funny and informative web page and a must read.

I looking to buy an iToilet within the near future.

Right now I’m using the Windows Pentium based XPtoilet SP-2. I tried out the Windows VistaUltimatetoilet, but got aggravated with it when it kept asking me OVER & OVER if I was sure I wanted to flush. I also had turned off that feature, but even after that I was not much impressed with the Windows VistaUltimatetoilent. The Windows XPtoilet SP-2 is more reliable, but I still tire of having to keep going back to Microsoft update to patch the XPtoilet; yet it still has leaks.

For extra security, I bought the Windows Toilet Seat Cover Dispenser. With all the viruses out there, it is a must have.

I’ve upgraded the XPtoilet with a SoundBlaster flush card and a Mira flat screen display for Windows mounted to the back of the door..

You can see the WindowsXPtoilet video here.

Like the itoilet which comes only in beige; WidowsXptoilent only comes in white as you will note from the video.

It can be embarrassing to take a call on the WindowsXPtoilet as will note from the video and yes you still get the blue screen of “death” which always happens when I overload it.

But as a side note, this might be a good idea in -high school- bathrooms…

Next step – program robo-toilet to issue only a single square of paper according to Cheryl Crow’s initiative.

Kill 2 birds with one stone and bring about world peace in the process!

Wingo on July 9, 2007 at 9:01 AM

Hey didn’t you know that the paper on the roll is for the sole purpose of passing notes between the stalls!

Gee…LOL

Kill 2 birds with one stone and bring about world peace in the process!

I now recommend we change all references to taking a dump to “conversing with a liberal.”

It’s basically the same thing, with the less enjoyable bean burrito and indian cuisine style one’s being closer to the analogy.

That Florida scenario sounds even more disturbing when you realize a large portion of Florida’s population is senior citizens.

BKennedy on July 9, 2007 at 8:37 AM

I hope you are not referring to me as a liberal when you said:

I now recommend we change all references to taking a dump to “conversing with a liberal.

For I note I have been doing a lot of the talking (posting).

I don’t care much for insults this early in the morning.

You further said:

That Florida scenario sounds even more disturbing when you realize a large portion of Florida’s population is senior citizens.

True…so true! Most of the men that I have prosecuted in the past as an Assitant State Attorney or defended as a criminal defense attorney are “old” men of which many are married, some are priests, some are teachers or school officials, and some are Republicans.

69 seconds.

csdeven on July 8, 2007 at 10:03 PM

The correct format for answering the exit question is this:

“You have 69 seconds to comply.”

It’s basically the same thing, with the less enjoyable bean burrito and indian cuisine style one’s being closer to the analogy.

That Florida scenario sounds even more disturbing when you realize a large portion of Florida’s population is senior citizens.

I wouldn’t recommend watching those specials about “How clean are your hotel/motel rooms?”

Bradky on July 9, 2007 at 7:56 AM

True there is almost just as much “body fluid” there on the bed coverings as there is in the backroom video booths of an adult bookstore.

Once when I was young, poor at the time, and travelling late, I stopped at a hotel in a bad part of Baltimore. The hotel room had indoor/outdoor carpet. The whole floor was so sticky I never took my shoes off and slept with my shoes on.

You haven’t lived until you’ve walked on carpet that was more like fly paper than carpet. Although this was my first and only one night stay in Baltimore as I was driving through the area, it wasn’t hard for me to figure out why the hotel floor was “sticky”. Thank God I wasn’t a woman for if I had been, I would have had to take a pregnancy test.