[HPforGrownups] Small flint?

[Andrew MacIan]

No: HPFGUIDX 33171

Greetings from Andrew!

Well, any form beats what we had in Nam....
--- blenberry <blenberry at altavista.com> wrote:
> First of all, I have American copies of all the
> books (unfortunately).
> 
> In CoS, Moaning Myrtle dives into the toilet and
> comes to rest "somewhere in the U-bend" (p 157).
> 
> When we encounter her again in GoF, she is described
> as "usually to be heard sobbing in the S-bend of a toilet three
> floors below" (p 461).
> 
> I don't know too much about plumbing, so which do
> toilets have?  I'm familiar with the U-bend or trap under sinks, but I
> looked behind my (American) toilet and couldn't find it.
> 
> blenberry


There's a S-bend *in* the ceramic part, between the
bowl and the external plumbing.  It is intended to be a
form of anti-sewer gas trap, and also holds the water
level, well...level.

Hsve a look at _The Way Things Work_ for more details.

Cheers,

Drieux

..who should have been a plumber; they make *scads*
more than I do....


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