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Addendum: Patrick Walsh comments:
I asked my Chinese friend to translate it and he started giggling. He
says that it is something that you attach to the bottom of a toilet
seat so that when someone lifts it up there is a tiny explosion that
emits a loud noise.
I kind of want one now.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on March 13, 2009 at 07:42 AM in Education | Permalink
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Now I'm wondering what that toy really is. I mean, what could be translated as "Closetool Burnt Destructor"?
Posted by: quanticle at Mar 13, 2009 11:24:40 AM
I asked my Chinese friend to translate it and he started giggling. He says that it is something that you attach to the bottom of a toilet seat so that when someone lifts it up there is a tiny explosion that emits a loud noise.
I kind of want one now.
Posted by: Patrick Walsh at Mar 13, 2009 12:47:38 PM
That would sure scare the 5h!t out of me.
Posted by: dave at Mar 13, 2009 6:19:11 PM
When your better half tells you to keep the toilet seat down, she means business.
Posted by: at Mar 13, 2009 10:20:55 PM
Language Log has a post (with pictures of the box) on the origins of the term, http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1230#more-1230
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