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To: Lane3 who wrote (114367)	5/17/2005 9:48:50 PM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793958

Eskimos may have many of words to snow, well we Americans have just as many words to describe what goes into a toilet! And when someone says that they flushed something down a toilet, Almost every American knows what that means (at least I think so). It means that an object was in the bowl, the bowl was flushed, and the object is no longer in the bowl. The object making a successful journey from one end of the toilet to the other (sewer pipe). Nobody I know says they flushed something "down", if that something is still in the bowl (and only those in denial claim to have flushed something "down" while the toilet is actually stopped up, or backing up and overflowing). Remember, Newsweek says that not only was the Koran placed above/near/in a toilet (which is very bad in itself) but that the Book was actually flushed down a toilet (meaning a successful flush) - the word flushed (by itself), or the word "flushed" and "clogged" were not used. I'm sure almost every American has clogged a toilet or flushed a clogged toilet and knows exactly how to describe the difference between a successful and unsuccessful flush. My guess is that tearing the pages out of a book, dropping them in a toilet, and trying to flush the pages - will be about as sucessful as trying to flush an intact book. Of course, you can prove me wrong :o)