{"quotes":[{"text":"Passing their toilet training is the very last thing that some adults did that has made their parents proud of them.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","ashamed","child","children","comfort-station","embarrass","embarrassed","funny","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","joke","jokes","lavatory","loo","parent","parenthood","parents","pass","potty-training","powder-room","pride","proud","restroom","satire","shame","toilet","toilet-training","toilets","urinal","washroom"],"id":38212,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"For breakfast to be called ‘in bed’ instead of ‘on top of a bed,’ the house in which it is about to be eaten has to have at least two rooms (excluding the kitchen); (at least) three, if it has a bathroom.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["anniversary","ate","b-b","bathroom","bathrooms","bed-and-breakfast","breakfast","breakfast-in-bed","breakfasted","breakfasts","chase","court","courtship","eat","eaten","food","hit-on","hitting-on","house","houses","kitchen","kitchens","marriage","marriages","meal","meals","morning","nutrition","poor","poverty","pursue","restroom","restrooms","romance","romantic","room","rooms","toilet","toilets","wedding","weddings","woo"],"id":115200,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Most people would rather eat inside a windowless room in which they have just defecated than eat inside one in which someone else has just farted, even if the room does not have a toilet.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","comfort-station","defecate","defecation","faeces","fart","farted","farts","feces","funny","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","joke","jokes","lavatory","loo","narcissism","powder-room","restroom","satire","shit","toilet","toilets","urinal","vanity","washroom"],"id":265038,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Writers often have the cleanest windows, floors, fridges and toilets, the most up-to-date filing system or the best record for returning calls or e-mails because, in the moment, just about any task seems more palatable than sitting down to write.” (p.136).","author":"Mark David Gerson","tags":["e-mails","filing","floors","fridges","returning-calls","toilets","windows","writers"],"id":300007,"author_id":"Mark+David+Gerson"},{"text":"There probably was a time when the idea of having a toilet inside a house was repulsive.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","comfort-station","convention","culture","custom","disgust","disgusting","funny","hilarious","house","houses","housing","humor","humorous","humour","idea","ideas","innovate","innovation","invent","invention","joke","jokes","lavatory","loo","powder-room","repulsive","restroom","satire","shelter","shelters","toilet","toilets","tradition","urinal","washroom"],"id":320730,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"I used to think that size does not count, until I realized that most people either find other people’s faeces more disgusting than a bird’s droppings, or they do not find the latter disgusting at all.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["animal","bathroom","bird","disgust","disgusting","droppings","excrement","faeces","feces","food","nutrition","shit","size","size-counts","size-does-count","size-does-matter","size-does-not-count","size-does-not-matter","size-doesnt-count","size-doesnt-matter","size-matters","sustenance","toilet","toilets"],"id":429712,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":6,"pages":1}}