# Urinal Cakes - Do we aim for them? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 7, 2009, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinal-cakes-do-we-aim-for-them/505636 "2009-08-07T14:43:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Daylate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@Daylate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daylate)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinal-cakes-do-we-aim-for-them/505636/21 "2009-08-12T05:14:57Z")
Sign over urinals in rest room up here in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. ``` NOTICE TO HOCKEY PLAYERS ``` THE MINT IN THE BOTTOM OF THE URINAL IS NOT CANDY, AND IS NOT TO BE EATEN! ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinal-cakes-do-we-aim-for-them/505636/22 "2009-08-12T06:43:06Z")
> [@ZenBeam](#): > > Close to ten years ago, over the course of a few weeks at work, I aimed for the middle of a urinal cake, and managed to put a hole through it. > > That’s right. Bow before my greatness! That’s nothing, I can write my name. ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinal-cakes-do-we-aim-for-them/505636/23 "2009-08-12T09:25:53Z")
Any other women think first of [cakewrecks?](http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2008-05-31T08%3A45%3A00-07%3A00&max-results=15) I was totally picturing a cake shaped like a urinal. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinal-cakes-do-we-aim-for-them/505636/24 "2009-08-12T09:55:05Z")
Urinal cakes? Oh, you mean bog lollies. ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinal-cakes-do-we-aim-for-them/505636/25 "2009-08-12T18:07:07Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Marketing idea: > Urinal “cakes” made in triangular shapes and called “urinal pies”. Mmmmmm. pie! I guess the same thing made for a toilet could be called a “Moon Pie”? ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinal-cakes-do-we-aim-for-them/505636/26 "2009-08-12T22:57:37Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > That’s nothing, I can write my name. In the urinal cake? ---
**Author:** ![CutterJohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@CutterJohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CutterJohn)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2009, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinal-cakes-do-we-aim-for-them/505636/27 "2009-08-13T00:01:44Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > As usual in man matters, I’m atypical. I like peeing directly into the little holes in the drain. I avoid the cake, and aim for those holes as well, usually trying to hit each one in order. I’m pretty good at it! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2009, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinal-cakes-do-we-aim-for-them/505636/28 "2009-08-13T02:09:59Z")
I read many years ago about a merry prankster/amateur electrician who rigged a tiny fake bug in a public urinal. The bug would give the men who tried to wash it away a nonlethal but perceptible zap when their urine stream completed the circuit. May just be - probably is - an urban legend. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2009, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinal-cakes-do-we-aim-for-them/505636/29 "2009-08-13T02:39:14Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > May just be - probably is - an urban legend. _Mythbusters_ tried the ‘urinating on the third rail’ myth. They discovered that a urine stream is not continuous, so there is no path for the current. They did discover that one could make a urine connection to an electric fence, and a urinal is closer than a subway rail. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinal-cakes-do-we-aim-for-them/505636.md?page=1)