Toilet humour
Public reference to bodily functions such as urination and defecation is taboo in many cultures and thus arouses intense anxiety in many people. For this reason, there is a whole sub-genre of humour, toilet humor based around excretion. This genre is particularly popular with children.Many artists have made their names promulgating toilet humor. Much of the lyrical content of avant garde rock musician Frank Zappa's songs revolved around toilet humor, eg, "Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow" (from the album Apostrophe). The humor of the animated series South Park also consists largely of toilet humor, even going so far as to have a talking piece of excrement as a major character. Dr. Slump, from Akira Toriyama, the creator of Dragonball, also had a strong scatological bent.
Toilet humour also refers to jokes around modesty, such as if one is seen naked or in his/her undergarments. It can also refer to jokes revolving around the incontinence of infants and young children.
Many forms of toilet humour involve euphemisms for excretion, such as the following:
- A French whistle
- Breaking the seal
- Change water on the goldfish
- Draining the dragon
- Draining the main vein
- Draining the radiator
- Draining the one-eyed monster
- Draining down the system
- Go pee pee
- Going to water my horse
- Leak the lizard
- Number one
- Pass water
- Piddle (considered a coarse expression in some quarters)
- Pit stop
- Pointing Percy at the porcelain
- Punish the porcelain
- Release the pressure
- Relieve yourself
- Seeing a man about a dog (or a horse)
- Shaking hands with the vicar
- Shaking the dew off the lily
- Sprinkle
- Tinkle
- Steering Stanley to the stainless steel
- Syphon the python
- Taking a leak
- Taking a pee
- Taking a piss (considered a coarse expression in some quarters)
- Taking a slash
- Taking a whiz
- Training Thomas on the terracotta
- Twinkle
- Visit Uncle Charley
- Void my bladder
- Going to walk my snake
- Write my name in the water
- Back one out
- Blasting a dookie
- Cutting rope
- Dropping anchor
- Dropping a bomb
- Dropping a deuce
- Dropping a hoopsnake
- Dropping bass ("base" as in the opposite of treble. Not the fish.)
- Dropping some friends off at the pool
- Dropping the Browns off at the Super Bowl
- Dropping the kids off at school
- Filling the bowl
- Giving birth
- Going poop poop
- Launching torpedoes
- Laying a cable
- Laying a turd
- Making logs (or a log)
- Making waves
- Makin' bears
- Number two
- Pebble-dashing the porcelain
- Pinching off a loaf
- Pinching a yam
- Taking a brew
- Taking a crap - see also Mr. Thomas Crapper
- Taking a dump
- Taking a shit (a coarse expression, not a euphemism)
- Anal thunder
- Ass-music
- Beef-cloud
- Blow a big one
- Blow off
- Botty burp
- Break wind
- Bust ass
- Choke a donkey
- Cut the cheese
- Drop one's guts (as in "Who dropped their guts?")
- Grunt (as in "Who grunted?")
- Launching a growler
- Let off a howler
- Let off a stinker
- Let rip
- Pass gas
- Pass wind
- Trouser cough
- Barfing
- Blowing chunks
- Bow down before the porcelain god (On some occasions, the worshiper vows to the god never to drink again.)
- Chunder
- Driving the porcelain bus
- Feed the fish (when seasick)
- Food Escape!
- Hurling
- Make like Mount St. Helens
- Number three
- Paint the sidewalk
- Regurgitate
- Revisit dinner
- Park the tiger
- Puking
- Snow bank pizza
- Spewing
- Spraying McDonalds (as in "Did somebody spray McDonalds?")
- Calling Huey (or Ralph) on the big white phone
- Talking to the porcelain telephone
- Talking to the weeds
- Technicolor yawn
- Un-eat
- Upchuck
- Yakking
- Yorxing
- Throwing up
- Going to the can
- Going to the loo
- Going where even the king goes alone
- Going where even the emperor must go on foot
- Paying a visit
- Powdering one's nose
- Taking a biological break
- Taking a constitutional
- Using the facilities
- Answering nature's call