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Europe can't handle poop (apparently)

Posted 07.17.2007 by Dave (11451)
A few weeks ago I had a great interview with one of Europe's biggest newspapers. Three million Europeans, the reporter promised me, would soon be learning all about Poop Culture. It was to be a full page on the cover of their arts section dedicated to my theories on, among other things, the media's aversion to taking poop seriously.

More prophetic my interview could not have been. I received this email from the reporter a few days ago:

Oh Dave I'm so bummed!

The article was supposed to run last Sunday. I submitted it and my editor-in-chief loved it. We bought some cool pictures for the layout and it looked great.

But... it wasn't in there. Turns out people from 'higher-up' were shocked when they heard about the subject and pulled it out last minute. It's so weird to have people do exactly what we were warning against in the article itself! As if they didn't read it...

It's the first time this has happened to me in the three and half years since I've been working for the paper.

This is the problem with poop: no one wants to touch it. The reporter did say she'd try to submit the article to some other publications, but she didn't hold out much hope.

If you're in New York City this September, you can witness the birth of a movement. Remember Bobby Tisdale from the Poop Culture book release party? He and I are going to be co-hosting a poop culture/poop comedy series at Rififi in the East Village. Called "I Doo Indeed," it will feature poop-related stand-up comedy and storytelling from NYC's funniest comedians, punctuated with history and context from your humble webmaster.

(The debut of I Doo Indeed has been pushed back until September because Bobby has to film a pilot for Comedy Central. Let's hope the pilot fails miserably so he can focus on what's *really* important.)

But if you're not in NYC, you'll still be able to join the fun. We'll be uploading videos to IDooIndeed.com -- and if we get enough subscribers, we'll certainly be able to justify taking the show on the road. Check out IDooIndeed.com to get yourself on the mailing list.

In the meantime, I've got a sneak peak for you. First off, here's a few minutes of Bobby Tisdale and I on stage at Rififi a few weeks ago, talking about what we've got planned.

And next is the best eighty seconds of comedy from the Poop Culture book release party, edited down by Paul.

Finally, a couple of cool media sightings. First: Poop Culture is ushering in the Golden Age of Poop. And second: the Detroit Metrotimes has a crush on some of our ladies.



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Miss Simone Scat (570) -- 07.17.2007

I liked the MT article. Thanks for posting it dave.
Producing waste since 1967

GottaGoGirl (2616) -- 07.17.2007

Whoa...My name in lights! Well, sort of. Cool.

I love that picture of you, Dave (on the link).

MousePoo (149) -- 07.17.2007

Pity. Sounds like those "higher-ups" need some constipation relief.

Poop as a "no go"(har har) topic?

Years back the UK(?) edition of Glamour had a feature on the "12 sexual positions of Christmas."

doniker (1491) -- 07.17.2007

wow dave, I didn't know you were Jewish.

Fudgepump (366) -- 07.18.2007

I don't know why, but after I read this the courtroom scene from "A Few Good Men" flashed into my mind. Nicholson thundering at Cruise from the stand - "You want the POOP?! You can't HANDLE the POOP...."

Mary Queen of Scats (387) -- 07.18.2007

You're famous GGG!

Sorry to hear about the shut down Dave. Yet another example of being shit on (pun intended) by the Man.

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What do you mean you didn't see it? It was right next to the toilet!

DungDaddy (1341) -- 07.18.2007

Bummer, Dave. Keep plugging away.

SamDamnit (1191) -- 07.18.2007

I find it surprising that Europeans are so averse to ppop. The squares in London and Amsterdam, were covered in bird poop. The Germans have little shelves in their toilets, so they can look at their poop, and the French use the word "merde", like we would use "drat".
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SamDamnit!
The Emir of Crapistan

Mary Queen of Scats (387) -- 07.19.2007

Really Sam? A poop peep show mirror you say?

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No no, honey. Kitties don't sit on the potty.

Lame comment!
Anonymous Coward (not verified) -- 09.11.2007

No comment to any of this including some of the names people have been coming up with...

Great comment! +1 point
Bilgepump (1336) -- 09.11.2007

Thank goodness for that, Anonymous, because we probably wouldn't give a rat's ass what you had to say anyway....

CeliacSpew (8) -- 01.03.2008

Hi Dave !
It is so true what you say about Europeans! I'm an American who has been living in France for 13 years. I can't find any French people who laugh at poop. For example, the diarehea scene from "Dumb and Dumber" or when Fat Bastard says "I didn't have corn"! - They just don't like it. When I lent my "open minded" boss an American movie with scatological humor, he couldn't even make it to the end. He said that poop humor is for the common uneducated masses. So I looked up "humor" on wikipedia, clicked on "toilet humor", and there was a reference to "Poop Culture". I read it and now I'm a squirting member !

prarie doggin (1368) -- 01.10.2008

It surprises me also, especially when some of those French cheeses smell worse than anything I have been able to produce.

daphne (3202) -- 01.10.2008

Don't you dare give up, young man. Don't let that French cheese beat you!


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.....hugging bunnies since 1969
www.daphneszoo.com

prarie doggin (1368) -- 01.10.2008

I'm pretty confident the French will surrender.

Thunderbox (706) -- 01.10.2008

That`s a no-brainer, prarie doggin, it`s standard operating procedure for the Frogs in all situations.

prarie doggin (1368) -- 01.10.2008

Yes, I've heard that their tanks are equipped with rear-view mirrors so they can watch the war.

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