A note of warning
For non-regular readers, or readers who haven't been regular long enough to have experienced a Toilet Tale: Brace yourselves.
Here's how the format works: We take a classic story, for instance Jane Eyre, or Terminator, and butcher abridge it, retelling the story with toilets. Sometimes we create original stories, like the lighthearted romp A Rootin', Tootin' Toilet Tale, or the bloodcurdling drama The Body in the Bathtub: A Poirot Mystery.
Most often we use these knitted figures and turn them into characters.
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| Say hello to Tubby the Bathtub, Flushie the Toilet, and Professor Plunger. You can get the knitting patterns from Mochimochiland. |
Sometimes, though, we use other images of toilets as characters (as for instance in The Body in the Bathtub, or Lady Chatterley's Lover).
A final warning
We tried to remember when we last read Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, and the best guess we could come up with was "probably sometime in high school? Or maybe at uni?". We have relied extensively, while creating the finely tuned drama of which you are about to partake, on Wikipedia, Spd Rdng, and Cliffsnotes. Because let's be honest - there's no way we can be arsed reading the damn thing again.
Without further preamble, let us begin!
War and Piss
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| Prince Andrei Bolkonsky feels like he is pissing his life away. His wife is beautiful, but all she wants is to party. Also she favours separate taps, because she considers them "more stylish". Andrei seethes, but suffers in silence. |
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| Luckily, Napoleon Bonaparte decides to invade Russia. Finally, a chance to take action against those effeminate French and their poncy lavender soaps! Andrei joins the Hussars, the Russian cavalry. |
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| Andrei is masculine, he is handsome, he is brave. He is also almost instantly
wounded at the Battle of Austerlitz. As he lies gazing up at the sky and
watching the thousands upon thousands of dead and dying soldiers, Andrei
thinks that Napoleon seems petty and insignificant. Napoleon, riding
past, asks him, "How do you feel, mon brave?" "Piss off," replies Andrei irritably. |
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| Andrei's friend Count Pierre Bezukhov, who is considered socially awkward until he inherits an absolutely gigantic pile of money, marries a woman called Hélène. A dude called Dolohov, who is rumoured to be having an affair with Hélène, makes an ungentlemanly remark about her in Pierre's hearing. Because he is trapped in a web of patriarchal notions of purity and pride, Pierre has to defend Hélène's, and thereby his own, honour. To everyone's surprise, not least his own, Pierre wounds Dolohov in a duel. |
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| Andrei, meanwhile, returns home from the war to find his estranged wife about to give birth. She dies while engaged in this risky activity, which makes Andrei feel incredibly guilty. He pisses off and leaves his infant son to be cared for by others. |
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| Luckily, Andrei soon finds comfort in the arms of the beautiful Countess Natasha Rostova, the sister of his friend Count Nikolai Rostov. However, Natasha is also being wooed by Prince Anatole Kuragin. Andrei is jealous, and decides he doesn't want Natasha anymore. |
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| The war of 1812 kicks off, and Andrei goes to join the fighting again. He realises, as a grenade lands next to him, that he's been a dick. He wants to live, and marry Natasha. He promptly dies. (Though he gets to declare his love to Natasha very prettily on his deathbed first.) |
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| Pierre marries Natasha. They live in the country, where Pierre enjoys haymaking. Most of Pierre's money is gone, and they haven't got a pot to piss in. However, they are blessed with several children. |
Fin
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By the way, if you ever fancy a competently performed piss-up in a brewery, we heartily recommend the brewery tour at the Egill Skallagrímsson brewery in Reykjavík.
Another good brewery where one may enjoy a piss-up is the Sct. Clemens Brewery in Aarhus.
By the way, if you ever fancy a competently performed piss-up in a brewery, we heartily recommend the brewery tour at the Egill Skallagrímsson brewery in Reykjavík.
Another good brewery where one may enjoy a piss-up is the Sct. Clemens Brewery in Aarhus.
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