"Gary" > wrote in message ...
> Hank Rogers wrote:
>>
>> Julie Bove wrote:
>> > I'm not poking around for the model number. It's the cheapest
>> > American Standard with the round seat. Commonly put in construction
>> > here. My neighbor offered me one for free when he bought the house.
>> > He put in some kind of oval seat toilet. I have two toilets, both
>> > the same and both put in *after* we bought the house.
>>
>> I'm surprised. Popeye says american standard are the finest terlits
>> in the universe.
>
> Back before all the "save the water" nonsense, we all had full
> flush American real toilets. In order to do my part, near the
> end I did have gallon milk jug filled with water in my tank.
> That reduced the flush by one gallon and it worked well.
>
> Then they replaced all here with the nifty enviromental
> low flush toilets and mine would occasionally clog a bit.
> Solved that problem by learning to flush twice during an
> especially messy poo. haha So much for "save the water."
>
> Back around that time (circa 1990), G.Gordin Liddy
> (of Watergate fame) had a talk show on the radio.
> One day he was talking about that and said that he
> still had the GOOD OLD American high-flush toilets
> in his home. "When I flush my toilet, the tide in
> the Potomac River rises." Funny comment.

My parents had a low flush toilet that frightened guests. It flushing was so
violent and loud, people would come out of the bathroom,. terrified. Never
seen another toilet like that.