# Toilet bomb **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 7, 2009, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166 "2009-07-07T04:36:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tio\_Gringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@Tio\_Gringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tio_Gringo)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/21 "2009-07-09T16:36:43Z")
I can’t help but wonder where the toilet is now. I imagine it sitting deep in the jungle overgrown with foliage, just waiting to be discovered one day… ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/22 "2009-07-09T16:38:22Z")
> [@Tio\_Gringo](#): > > I can’t help but wonder where the toilet is now. I imagine it sitting deep in the jungle overgrown with foliage, just waiting to be discovered one day… No. The impact would have pretty much wiped it out. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/23 "2009-07-09T20:42:32Z")
If the last user of it had eaten tofu would it be a … soy bomb? ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/24 "2009-07-09T22:22:48Z")
Everyone involved should have been court martialed, on charges of loo’d conduct. ---
**Author:** ![Rack-a-Bones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rack-a-Bones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rack-a-Bones)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/25 "2009-07-10T00:56:50Z")
> [@cornflakes](#): > > So when did they drop the kitchen sink? That was their first choice. It didn’t work so the toilet was number 2. ---
**Author:** ![Nunavut\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e95f7d/32.png) [@Nunavut\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunavut_Boy)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/26 "2009-07-10T01:18:46Z")
Didn’t the Vietnamese have any better ways of getting a head? ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/27 "2009-07-10T03:34:47Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > What? No toilet roll streamers? They tried that once; both the mission and the plane were almost lost when the pilot doubled back repeatedly over the target to cut the toilet paper into little bits. He was at just a few hundred feet when he finally chopped the cardboard core with his propeller and headed home. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/28 "2009-07-10T05:19:33Z")
Has it been established that the kitchen sink is a superior weapon to the toilet? Because I almost made a kitchen sink bomb many years ago when my roomate and I poured a bunch of lye down the sink and my roomate’s brother arrived to dump nitric acid down it (she stopped him in time.) I’ll call the Pentagon tomorrow morning. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/29 "2009-07-10T12:51:16Z")
> [@KRC](#): > > Has it been established that the kitchen sink is a superior weapon to the toilet? Because I almost made a kitchen sink bomb many years ago when my roomate and I poured a bunch of lye down the sink and my roomate’s brother arrived to dump nitric acid down it (she stopped him in time.) > > I’ll call the Pentagon tomorrow morning. Don’t bother, the NSA will get in touch with you soon. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/30 "2009-07-10T13:31:25Z")
The casualties of the toilet bomb died from septic shock. ---
**Author:** ![MikeF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/31 "2014-02-28T19:02:13Z")
If you go directly directly north from the western-most point of South America the first U.S. state you will hit is… . . . . . . . . . . . . Alaska! (Or so said the Quizzo MC the other night) ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/32 "2014-02-28T20:18:25Z")
Back then it took 50 toilets to destroy a target. Now with our smart toilets we can get it done in one. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/33 "2014-02-28T20:30:16Z")
The first drop might miss, but they’ll definiitely be hit by #2. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/34 "2014-03-01T15:54:51Z")
> [@MikeF](#): > > If you go directly directly north from the western-most point of South America the first U.S. state you will hit is… > . > Alaska! (Or so said the Quizzo MC the other night) Worst. Segue. Ever. ‘Speaking of toilets being dropped from airplanes, South America extends a great distance to the west!’ 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/35 "2014-03-01T22:06:27Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > The first drop might miss, but they’ll definiitely be hit by #2. …the marvels of ceramic engineering… ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/36 "2014-03-01T22:22:52Z")
And shortly afterwards, the first wave of tanks was launched. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/37 "2014-03-02T17:15:40Z")
It sounds like a bit of a shithouse move ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/38 "2014-03-02T18:45:56Z")
> [@MikeF](#): > > If you go directly directly north from the western-most point of South America the first U.S. state you will hit is… > . > . > . > . > . > . > . > . > . > . > . > . > Alaska! (Or so said the Quizzo MC the other night) If you go directly south from Detroit what is the first non US country you hit? Don’t cheat by googling. ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/39 "2014-03-03T02:44:21Z")
1968: 6 MILLION pounds of bombs How does that work out to pounds per man, woman, and child? And we kept bombing for how many more YEARS? Yeah, fun times, indeed! ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/40 "2014-03-03T03:17:08Z")
> [@cornflakes](#): > > So when did they drop the kitchen sink? Actually, they _did_ drop that too. It was something in response to the Tet Offensive, and aircrews were responding to the Admiral’s orders to “throw everything we’ve got at 'em.” There was just another thread about this. . . I’ll have to dig it up. Tripler Expolsive Ordnance Disposal–at least we didn’t have to deal with _that_ sh\*t. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166.md?page=3)