# Don't Brush Your Teeth With The Toilet Brush!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 7, 2005, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-brush-your-teeth-with-the-toilet-brush/283513 "2005-01-07T03:58:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-brush-your-teeth-with-the-toilet-brush/283513/1 "2005-01-07T03:58:53Z")
> [@](#): > > A flushable toilet brush that warns users, “Do not use for personal hygiene” has been identified as the nation’s wackiest warning label in an annual contest sponsored by a consumer watchdog group. > > The Wacky Warning Label Contest, now in it’s eighth year, is conducted by Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch, M-LAW, to reveal how lawsuits, and concern about lawsuits, have created a need for common sense warnings on products. Source: [http://www.mlaw.org/wwl/](http://www.mlaw.org/wwl/) Geez, talk about potentially very bad breath after brushing…! Sheesh! > [@](#): > > The $250 second place award went to Matt Johnson of Naperville, Illinois for a label on a popular scooter for children that warns: “This product moves when used.” > > Third place and $100 went to Ann Marie Taylor of Camden, South Carolina who found the following warning on a digital thermometer that can be used to take a person’s temperature several different ways: “Once used rectally, the thermometer should not be used orally.” > > Fourth place was a label on an electric hand blender promoted for use in “blending, whipping, chopping and dicing,” that warns: “Never remove food or other items from the blades while the product is operating.” Sent in by Ken Stein of Berkeley, California. > > In fifth place was a label on a nine- by three-inch bag of air used as packing material. It carries this warning: “Do not use this product as a toy, pillow, or flotation device.”Sent in by Christen Millard of Westerville, Ohio. ---
**Author:** ![NotNow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7cd45c/32.png) [@NotNow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotNow)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-brush-your-teeth-with-the-toilet-brush/283513/2 "2005-01-07T04:04:31Z")
but those packing pillows work great in a pinch… :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Claude\_Remains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@Claude\_Remains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claude_Remains)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-brush-your-teeth-with-the-toilet-brush/283513/3 "2005-01-07T16:28:00Z")
this is posted somewhere else also. Just had to chime in to say that the visual that I got was NOT tooth brushing, but someone reaching back to use it as a “bottle brush” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-brush-your-teeth-with-the-toilet-brush/283513/4 "2005-01-07T16:31:03Z")
If I’m stupid enough to use a toliet brush for personal hygene, I’m not going to let a little sticker stop me. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-brush-your-teeth-with-the-toilet-brush/283513/5 "2005-01-07T16:35:56Z")
“Once used rectally, the thermometer should not be used orally.” _Once in the hips, never on the lips._ ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-brush-your-teeth-with-the-toilet-brush/283513/6 "2005-01-07T16:48:08Z")
> [@NotNow](#): > > but those packing pillows work great in a pinch… :smack: Hell yeah…we did 90% of our Christmas shopping online/via catalog this year, and dozens of the packages we received had those air-filled cushions. I tossed them all the couch and lounged. It was a little slice of inflated heaven. Until the cats got to 'em, of course. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-brush-your-teeth-with-the-toilet-brush/283513/7 "2005-01-07T16:48:26Z")
[quote] Third place and $100 went to Ann Marie Taylor of Camden, South Carolina who found the following warning on a digital thermometer that can be used to take a person’s temperature several different ways: “Once used rectally, the thermometer should not be used orally.”\* Other than the “eeewww ichy” factor, think about this a little deeper. If the thermometer is cleaned of organic debris, disinfected, etc. there is no real reason for this. Back in the day, school nurse types would use the same oral thermometer over and over. The hemostat used during your apendectomy may very well have been used for Mr Johnson’s subtotal colectomy. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-brush-your-teeth-with-the-toilet-brush/283513/8 "2005-01-07T18:41:32Z")
Don’t use toilet brush for personal hygeine? Oh fuuuuuuuuuuuck! ::::::running to bathroom to gargle mouthwash::::::::: ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-brush-your-teeth-with-the-toilet-brush/283513/9 "2005-01-07T19:17:26Z")
> [@The Chao Goes Mu](#): > > ::::::running to bathroom to gargle mouthwash::::::::: Just make sure you don’t use toilet cleanser. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-brush-your-teeth-with-the-toilet-brush/283513/10 "2005-01-07T19:34:22Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#): > > Just make sure you don’t use toilet cleanser. Ohhhh fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck! ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-brush-your-teeth-with-the-toilet-brush/283513/11 "2005-01-07T19:50:16Z")
> [@bob fortuna](#): > > this is posted somewhere else also… [=\> Here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=292840) in **Rayne Man** ’s poorly titled (IMHO) thread _'It’s Not An Urban Myth , It’s True_’ which includes 3 pages of moronic warning label’ ---
**Author:** ![Claude\_Remains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@Claude\_Remains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claude_Remains)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-brush-your-teeth-with-the-toilet-brush/283513/12 "2005-01-07T20:12:57Z")
Thanks **JohnBckWLD** , but I was thinking of a thread by **ivylass** that was posted just this a.m. on this very board. I am not able to cite it because I am a dumbass and have not figured out how to do that yet. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-brush-your-teeth-with-the-toilet-brush/283513/13 "2005-01-07T20:29:50Z")
[Here you go, Bob.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=295695)