'Government Property' bog paper was fantastic for moulding filler on car renovations! When applied shiny side to the filler it left a superb flat and shiny surface on removal! :ok:

Does one therefore assume that you were working on crappy cars?:D

Jack

Why was Government Property Toilet paper used on the Star Trek USS Enterprise?

Union Jack

How could you possibly know that!? :ok::D

That paper was waterproof too. Like magazine paper reusable.

Scatology for ever !
 

Alan Mills,

To encourage voluntary constipation ! (first man who uses the Elsan has to empty it).

Also known as Army Blank Form, which was the original "Bumff" (Bum Fodder): this later was extended to cover all official paper work.

Tended to fold into sharp creases, could inflict painful scrapes on Piles.

Widely also used was the old (2d) Radio Times, which was slightly more flexible than newspaper.

In the Raj, a plantain leaf made an acceptable substitute. The locals often carried round a little brass pot of water to help matters. They performed al fresco, usually beside railway lines. :*

The Roman legionary had a small sponge on the end of a stick, which he dunked in water. Suppose the Centurions had a better class of sponge (and olive oil to finish off ?).

A fascinating subject.

Anything else you'd like to know ?

Danny42C.

EDIT: Just remembered, the trade name of the stuff was IZAL

I'm getting slow in my old age & only realised the video was a spoof, halfway through.


I joined up in early 1970 & was terrified of having the training staff find soft bog roll in my locker (I imagined it to be a chargeable offence) assuming the 'Government property' paper being there to toughen us up & make men of us.


It didn't work very well with me, the rebound being that I often like to go out & strut my stuff in my favourite Cheongsam. Horses for courses & all that.

Alan Mills asked: The answer to this well-known schoolboy query is simple - to defeat Klingons!

My boarding school in Jamaica did not provide bog-roll ... it was part of your tuck-box kit each term. Referred to as "toosh-pops', it was either "Sandrex" or "Softrex", and it was always a joy to see a Prefect rushing around trying to beg a sheet or three from the junior boys after his supply had expired. *

* memories of an episode of "Porridge" there.

You should have sold it to him, you could have cleaned up :O

I trust that was wild salmon and not farmed:p

Tom

Beagle, #28

Thanks for that, you just put the question to something I've known the answer to for years , if you see what I mean!!

Smudge:ok: