"Commode"

[Jonathan Lighter]

'Round here that's about all it's ever called. "Commode," I mean.

JL

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> The voiceover to a commercial for Clorox Toilet-Bowl Cleaner includes
> _commode_ first in its list of synonyms for "toilet." It must be over
> sixty years, since I last heard the word so used. Or used at all, for
> that matter. Even in Saint Louis BE, the word on the street was
> "toilet."
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