On the drive home I heard a radio question for a prize of a free dinner at a local restaurant, “What does Prince Charles collect?” and the answer was, toilet seats!
Now, this was not some half-assed (so to speak) radio jock…this guy is actually very intelligent so I have to assume it is true. Google it and you get all kinds of references.
So…what is the deal?
Why would someone collect toilet seats?
And is this some odd insight into Prince Charles?
Toilet seats…heir to the throne… :rolleyes:
All I can tell you is that he is probably the most “covered” person in the country in terms of tabloid reporters etc and none of them have ever mentioned it.
I always thought he collected gonks.
owlstretchingtime English to Canadian English translation, please?
Soon to be seen at the National Gallery: “Seats of Power; the Royal Thunderbox Collection, 1655-1955.”
How times have changed. When I was growing up, it was Prince Albert in the can 
Prince Charles seems pretty stodgy today, but back when he had a bit of a wild side, repressed upper-class British style. Back when he was in the Navy, he and his friends did some Monty Python-style spoof films that are pretty funny. He probably started the collection as a lark back then, and has kept it up.
gonks = medals, titles, awards, status symbols.
owlstretchingtime was being sarcastic.
No, gongs = medals, tiltles, awards, status & symbols.
Gonks = pink haired, ugly little dolls.
Someone already made a throne joke, so …
Would this collection be known as a Royal Flush?
At last I know what Neil was talking about when he described taking his exams! “I sat in the big hall and put my packet of Polos on the desk…and my extra pencils and my support gonk…and my extra pen…and my extra Polos and my lucky gonk…and lead for my retractable pencil…and my retractable pencil…and my pencil sharpener shaped like a cream cracker…and chewing gum and pencils and pens and more gonks…and the guy said ‘Stop writing please’!”
I dunno about this, but I did hear a rumour that whenever the Queen goes to the washroom, they remove and replace the entire toilet so it can’t be sold as a souvenir.
I’m not sure I buy this…