Time to discuss the important things

[Scout26]

What?  None of you guys know how to use the three seashells?

I grew up in Indiana, and live in Illinois.  What's a "seashell"?

[230RN]

I was wondering about how they were used, toilet-wise, too.  (I know what a seashell is.)

But I was afraid to ask.

[Perd Hapley]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBI8uCKi2lI

[BlueStarLizzard]

[Chuck Dye]

It's like déjà vu, all over again!

I load'em as they come from the package, which means how the package landed on the shelf determines orientation 'til I bring home the next package (in a year or two. )

[vaskidmark]

I don't know how they got by with only 3 shells. They were all eating Taco Bell.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/toilet-tissue-anthropologists-uncover-all-the-ways-weve-wiped/

According to the BMJ piece, a Greek axiom about frugality cites the use of pessoi and their purpose: “Three stones are enough to wipe.” The modern equivalent is probably the purposefully self-contradictory “toilet paper doesn't grow on trees.”

Which also has an influence on certain cultures prohibiting the use of the hand on a designated side (usually the left) for eating, or to be extended for greeting or the exchange of money, etc.

According to some [highly questionable] sources it has been only recently that the diet has been such so as to produce anything but hard, well-formed scat that would allow for the three-objects style.  While I don't buy that I will note that the digestive systems of diverse omnivores/carnivores generally follows that form, while the scat of vegans such as cows is more prone to plopping wetly.  Except for that one bear who asked the bunny if it had a problem with "stuff" sticking to its fur.

stay safe.