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Queen Elizabeth's First Flushing Toilet and a Book Called 'Ajax'
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Transcript of the segment
What BBN said on air. The facts are in the original report: Wikipedia.
Hank LedgerIn fifteen ninety-six, a courtier built the Queen a flushing toilet, then wrote a book about it. Our reporters have questions, and a cardboard wave.
Skip WaverlyI am Sir John Harington, godson to the Queen, and I bring you the future!
Lola CruzI'm the Queen. I've covered worse. Show me the box.
Skip WaverlyBehold! A wooden throne with a tank and a flush valve, installed at Richmond Palace!
Lola CruzIt's a box.
Skip WaverlyMajesty, observe the lever! And the water, which is this cardboard wave!
Lola CruzYour waves have no budget. I've seen better water at the Port of Long Beach, and a seagull.
Hank LedgerThe Queen raises one eyebrow. Historians say it was a good eyebrow.
Skip WaverlyAnd I wrote you a book, Majesty! I'm told it's very well received on the desk circuit!
Lola CruzA New Discourse of a Stale Subject, Called the Metamorphosis of Ajax. That's the title?
Skip WaverlyEvery word, Majesty. Even the stale one.
Lola CruzOh, it flushes! I'm delighted, and I hate that I'm delighted.
Skip WaverlyMajesty, a godson of mine would be honored by a promotion to anchor.
Hank LedgerThat really happened. Per Wikipedia, he was one of the Queen's one hundred and two godchildren.
Hank LedgerHe installed her one at Richmond Palace, and the other hundred and one presumably got cards.
Skip WaverlySo the flushing toilet really took off after that, or did people stick with the old ways?
Hank LedgerHe got a toilet named after a book.
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