Just to show everyone out there I have a lighter side to myself, I want to correct some information contained in Tuesday’s Trivia Treat cartoon.

Thomas Crapper was not the inventor of the modern flush toilet. In fact the whole “life story” about him (Flushed with Pride) is a completely fictional account written by Wallace Reyburn.

The characters in this book have highly suspect names and the author used bad puns (i.e. Crapper perfected WC “after many dry runs”).

istory shows the first flush toilet was used by the royalty of Crete around 2000 B.C.E. The predecessor of the modern WC was developed and patented by Alexandar Cumming in 1775.

Add to this that the same man who wrote Crapper’s “biography” also wrote “Bust Up: The Uplifting Tales of Otto Titzling,” the supposed inventor of the brassiere.

With such characters as Philippe de Brassiere, Hans Delving and Lois Lung, it should be obvious Reyborn has succeeded in pulling off quite a hoax.

I hope the comic editor will be more careful about his trivia facts in the future.

Scott Stocking

Campus Minister