A quick way to locate news stories for PoopReport is to search in Google's news section. Bait your hook with terms "dung," "restroom," or "feces, " and you'll be up for hours sorting through slimy creatures pulled up from the depths.

However, you'll get the biggest haul -- around 7,000 hits -- with the term "toilet."

After 'toilet,' my bait of choice is "loo," the term Brits use to conveniently refer both to the throne they plunk their royal bums down on, and to the room in which that throne resides. The term 'loo' doesn't attract that many hits -- 600 or so. And, of course, most of these are from stories appearing in the press of the UK and other countries that shit 'n' speak the Queen's English.

But the hits you get on the 'loo' lure tend to be keepers. A big reason for this is that "loo" invites endless punning.

Here's a smattering of skip-to-my-loo headlines that I just snagged on the first three pages of a Google cast:

Cheeky Loo Paper Ad Makes The Most Of The Newspaper Medium

Oh crap! Cop shoots man while on loo

Privy pros go potty over China's dial-a-loo

How to get your kitty to poo in the loo

Ian gets dunked as Phil runs loo-se

If you compare stories landed with "toilet" to those landed with "loo," I think you'll conclude that the British are more playful about poopernalia than are Americans. Could this really be?

And if it be, is it due mostly to the fact that the word "loo" is light and playful, while the lugubrious "toilet" blunts the imagination, like a thud to the head with a cold chunk of porcelain?

The cause of Shameless Shitting may be well served by ditching the term "toilet," flushing it right down the loo and replacing it with something that goes a little better with poo.