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Boy Invents a Foot-Powered Toilet Lid Lifter

Posted November 05, 2007 2:52 PM

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Jake Wulf is a gifted 9-year-old boy from Odebolt, Iowa who has but one weakness: he can't remember to lower the toilet seat after he's done. Tired of his mom getting mad at him, he decided to invent the Privy Prop, a foot-powered lever sort of like the one you see for trash cans: It was during a visit to a doctor's office that Jake's idea for the "Privy Prop" began to take shape. He noticed the lid to a small trash can, which opened and closed with a foot-powered lever. He went home and told his parents that he wanted to design a similar device for the toilet. […] Jake built plywood base and then cut thin pieces of steel and fashioned a teeter-totter at the bottom. You step on it and the seats raises. You step off and it closes.

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11/05/2007 4:45 PM

I swear with God as my witness that I have the sketches for this in my idea-book. Son of a gun out done my some industrious nine year old! I bet his dad helped!

Oh, yeah. well I've kissed agirl and I have a car! so ny nya nya!

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OK - OK. A sincere congratulations to the young Mr. Wulf. Wishing you the best you little, er I mean carry on.

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11/06/2007 2:57 AM

PMSL !

(PS. I have a girl and I've kissed a car!)

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11/06/2007 6:56 AM

Frank Hornby was right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meccano

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11/06/2007 10:06 AM

How does Jake remember to press the pedal ? I'll bet he can't multitask and use the flush handle whilst his foot is on that pedal. Anyway, why do women whine on about the seat, when closing the lid would be more sensible to argue about. Perhaps all men should be forced to sit down and do it girlie style ( a bit hard some mornings if ya know what I mean). His mom and others probably only complain because of the fun chaps can have directing the flow. They'll be sorry when sitting down they accidently put a foot in the wrong place.

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11/06/2007 10:46 AM

Kris wrote:-

They'll be sorry when sitting down they accidentally put a foot in the wrong place.

What if the young man had made it powered? The ladies could be thrown in the air or crushed even!!!!!

No more complaints about the seat being up after that!!!!!!

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11/06/2007 11:03 AM

LOL ! Quick, somebody mail Jake advice on high powered motors ! Maybe even some kind of wind up spring-loaded thing. There is huge potential here for the young fella to create an 'ejector toilet'. Crank it up while you take the ****. If the lad didn't already have intellectual copywrite, KrisDel Products Ltd would be right in there, except we're normally up to our necks in **** anyway.

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11/06/2007 11:07 AM

What does LOL mean? "Lots Of laughs" or what? tell me so that I know when to use it too......

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11/06/2007 11:13 AM

LOL = Lid oop* lad.

*UK dialect, oop = up

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11/06/2007 12:33 PM

LOL is Laughing Out Loud.

ROFL is Rolling On Floor Laughing.

On the other hand - Del, what's PMSL??
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11/06/2007 12:45 PM

Your question to Del looks dangerous, it might be something to do with PMS!

!! WHO SAID THAT OUT LOUD? !!

Andy, go sit in the corner!!!!

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11/06/2007 3:35 PM

You need this ... it has all the good 'uns

Dunno if they have my scathing and rarely used BWFT ?

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11/06/2007 5:43 PM

Perfect, our Lady Guest might get upset though as PMS is down as Pretty Much Sucks, which of course could describe the situation very accurately too.....

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11/07/2007 6:14 AM

<PLBKAC - Problem Lies Between Keyboard And Chair>

Now there's a thing!

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11/07/2007 7:35 AM

Here's another thing;

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11/06/2007 12:42 PM

I always go..... here... AG for all those terms. Next I'll show you where I go for all of PblMk's latin signatures.

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11/06/2007 12:56 PM

Thats a good place to know, many thanks for the tip!

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11/06/2007 12:46 PM

I'm thinking more like 12V dc....something like this....

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11/06/2007 1:01 PM

...it may have started out at 12volts, but by the time it gets on the fence, it can be quite a "OUCH" lot more!!

Saw a video (taken from quite a distance!) of the effects of someone actually peeing on one.

Not to be repeated if it is ever to "Stiffen up" again, I would think.....as good an effect as saying "PMS" out loud I would think!!!!

I have two daughters and when you have 3 women all with PMS at the same time, "Dear God!!!!", luckily one moved out some years ago......and one has now got menapause....one left I can handle!!!

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11/06/2007 1:05 PM

Boys -

You think it's tough to deal with it?

Try actually HAVING it.

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11/06/2007 5:41 PM

Dear Anonymous Girl,

from what I have seen, most women think everything is "Hunky-Dory" and normal when they are having their PMS "fun".....so you know when its there and try and deal with it in some way....my compliments, but you are probably 1 in 100 or less.....

Margaret Thatcher was the only one who never seemed to have it show.....so you might get to leading the country as well one day!! Good luck!

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11/06/2007 11:13 AM

Nice try. It's halfway to the ultimate Seat & Lid problem.

Forgot to add a feature to close the lid too and to raise only the lid for the setters.

Next job is to invent a TP holder where the tissue comes off the roll without consideration as to whether it is from the front or back of the roll.

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