The Queen's New Flushing Toilet

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIn 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.

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   Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentI am Sir John Harington, godson to the Queen, and I bring you the future!

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentI'm the Queen. I've covered worse. Show me the box.

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   Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentBehold! A wooden throne with a tank and a flush valve, installed at Richmond Palace!

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentIt's a box.

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   Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentMajesty, observe the lever! And the water, which is this cardboard wave!

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentYour waves have no budget. I've seen better water at the Port of Long Beach, and a seagull.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe Queen raises one eyebrow. Historians say it was a good eyebrow.

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   Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentAnd I wrote you a book, Majesty! I'm told it's very well received on the desk circuit!

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    Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentA New Discourse of a Stale Subject, Called the Metamorphosis of Ajax. That's the title?

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    Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentEvery word, Majesty. Even the stale one.

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    Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentOh, it flushes! I'm delighted, and I hate that I'm delighted.

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    Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentMajesty, a godson of mine would be honored by a promotion to anchor.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThat really happened. Per Wikipedia, he was one of the Queen's one hundred and two godchildren.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHe installed her one at Richmond Palace, and the other hundred and one presumably got cards.

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    Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentSo the flushing toilet really took off after that, or did people stick with the old ways?

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHe got a toilet named after a book.