#0 · Jul 01, 2003, 09:49 · Nick

Singapore Gives Five Stars to Toilet

July 1, 2003 07:42 AM EDT

SINGAPORE - Singapore's environment minister awarded the country's first five-star rating to a public restroom on Tuesday, at the start of a nationwide drive to flush out dirty lavatories.

Environment Minister Lim Swee Say launched the "Happy Toilet" campaign, which will rate public restrooms using a five-star system similar to that used for hotels.

"I am looking very forward to experiencing this toilet myself so I can walk out of the toilet feeling happy," Lim said at a news conference, before placing the award plaque outside a restroom at a suburban shopping mall in the wealthy Southeast Asian city-state.

"In total we spend almost three years of our lives on the toilet. It's natural and it's normal, so let's learn to say: 'Wow! That's a great toilet!" Sim said in the Happy Toilet program booklet.

This tightly controlled tropical island nation of 4 million people is known for its behavior modification campaigns, which have included anti-spitting drives and media blitzes aimed at making people more courteous.

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(Should I have posted this? I don't know, now I'm feeling all flushed)

#1 · Jul 01, 2003, 14:40 · Frank

"It's natural and it's normal, so let's learn to say: 'Wow! That's a great toilet!"

LMAO:) :)

Yours,
Frank

#2 · Jul 02, 2003, 05:20 · Lasher

Here's another odd story.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/americas/07/02/chile.science.reut/index.html

Lasher