# Don't Flush After Dark! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 29, 2004, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-flush-after-dark/242694 "2004-04-29T16:37:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2004, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-flush-after-dark/242694/21 "2004-04-30T14:55:52Z")
> [@Master Wang-Ka](#): > > …light switch? _Noisy light switch?_ (envisions this huge steel Y-switch, like Dr. Frankenstein habitually used to charge up Boris Karloff, or like the ones executioners always used on old gangster movies, when they’re about to strap James Cagney into the electric chair…) Dr. Frankenstein: “Throw the third switch!” Igor: “Not the THIRD switch, master!” Dr. Frankenstein: “Throw it!” Igor (shrugs): “OK” _Electrical panel explodes_ Dr. Frankenstein: “Damn your eyes!” Igor (looking popeyed at camera): “Too late!” ---
**Author:** ![sperfur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@sperfur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sperfur)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2004, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-flush-after-dark/242694/22 "2004-04-30T15:03:32Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > One could probably take a sucessful durf while wearing night vision goggles until you looked down and saw green poop. Then I think the scream would pretty much defeat the initial quest of the stealthy poot. Heh heh - got me a new sig line… ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2004, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-flush-after-dark/242694/23 "2004-04-30T15:06:04Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > What have the English done to light switches that makes them so loud? The just _had_ to go and replace their perfectly good steam driven light switches with those obnoxious, clanky, exhaust-spewing diesel models ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2004, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-flush-after-dark/242694/24 "2004-04-30T15:21:29Z")
> [@The Devil's Grandmother](#): > > Maybe she’s the woman who used to live downstairs from me who complained about the excessive noise my cat made as he ran from room to room. Hummmm, I had the same downstairs neighbor. She once asked me if I had a Great Dane. Said it sounded like horses running around. In reality it was three 10 week old kittens. ---
**Author:** ![Marsie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Marsie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marsie)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2004, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-flush-after-dark/242694/25 "2004-05-04T00:11:02Z")
Okey, dokey. I can die happy. Surely now I’ve heard it all. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2004, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-flush-after-dark/242694/26 "2004-05-04T00:22:45Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > Hummmm, I had the same downstairs neighbor. She once asked me if I had a Great Dane. Said it sounded like horses running around. > In reality it was three 10 week old kittens. That’s why at my house, when they start running back and forth, it’s called “Elephant Races.” ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2004, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-flush-after-dark/242694/27 "2004-05-04T00:23:56Z")
I wonder if it was one of those push button old style light switches- anyone know what I mean? My gramma used to have them, and you could hear them loudly from floor to floor, like a loud _SNAP_. Weird, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-flush-after-dark/242694.md?page=1)