EWWWW!
My first disturbing search request--I note someone has found the ol' Possumblog by entering "toilet training AND punished AND parents AND enema AND stories" in Yahoo's searchbox.

The summary, which was several entries down the page, came back with: "... leaky upstairs toilet, which will ... not been punished enough? For ... The Flaming Enema of Death ... the stories seem too ... J. Reimer Training and Doctrine ... of parents and ...

Now, for what it's worth--

1. I fixed my toilet--it wasn't the wax ring, but the valve nut on the cutoff was loose and dripping about a cup of water a day. Tightened it up, leak gone. But not before I had gone to Home Depot to buy a repair kit. Which I'm going to keep, and one day will take a picture of and post.

2. Yes, I have been punished enough for whatever it was. Please stop now.

3. The Flaming Enema of Death is another blogger I had linked to, not an aid to toilet training. Sorry.

4. The stories? Clark Bowers, The Tiger of the Khyber Pass, whose stories still seem too hard to believe. I'm sure he would be available for a speech or two, though. Call him.

5. The General Dennis J. Reimer Training and Doctrine Digital Library is touted as an electronic "library without walls." The Library is the single repository of approved Army training and doctrine information, none of which has anything to do with toilet training, although there is some stuff on punishing people, and probably a medic's field manual where there might be something about enemas. As the Army says, Know Your Enema.

6. Parents. Yes, I had two, which is now down to one, although my wife and my children all have both parents.

I hope I have cleared all of that up for anyone else who might be interested.

It's so strange to me how just a few out-of-context words can be sucked up and squirted back out in such fashion--the Internet is just so queer--seemingly innocuous words, yet put them together just right and bang! Anyway, I now have to go finish my report on Tijuana goat felching nymphettes who channel psychic Britney Spears nipple slips.
posted by Terry at 3:03:00 PM