A few days ago at the super market. Strolling along the weekly specials isle, a jumble of blister packs next to cheap shower heads comes into view.
The package says: Toilet Spy (in anglo speak, yes).
Inside is a photo of a toilet seat in the UP position with a 2 inch plastic thingy the shape and color of the black spy from Mad Magazine stuck on the underside.
A speech bubble emanating from the dark shape says: Seat down, or I'll shoot. This one in German, Sitz runter, oder ich schieße.
OMG.
When it comes to German potty humor, the word schieße is a great candidate for swapping the letters i and e. Enough said, check a dictionary if you are puzzled.
So, yours truly is not the most innovative person around and will fess up to having worked on a book greeted by one student magazine with the question "who needs this?"
Which means, asking the question re the Toilet Spy may or may not be a good move.
Seriously, who in their right mind would design such a product, and who would buy it?
Have desperate cleaning folks petitioned the designers of crap? Have the designers of crap convened focus groups to verify appeal and usability of the product?
How many barrels of crude oil went into this crude device?
The only glimmer of hope about this thing is that carnival season is in full swing around here. And the combination of feudal uniforms and wooden guns plus booze and otherwise induced merriment just might be the reason for the Toilet Spy to appear at this point in time.
Booze does take away what little focus some males have.
Which leaves one existential question.
Assuming these peeps did a focus group, did male participants have to liquor up for added realism?
And one more question: which perv out there will be the first to stick a tiny wireless camera into it?
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