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Blacksburg Brown

Posted 05.16.2008 by Mr. Poopypants (12)
I stumbled across PoopReport while interning at the Treasury Department in DC, next door to the White House. Like many DC interns, I found myself bored to tears. PoopReport kept me entertained for four bleak months as I prayed for a screaming comet to bring me sweat relief from this misery. Sitting in these clean marbled bathrooms, making my peace with God, just feet away from the White House, I felt empowered, much like a head of state might; and I lovingly referred to my favorite toilet as the "Throne of Democracy."

As a Jersey boy born and raised, I found DC pretentious. Granted, it was interesting to experience something different from what I was used to, but it only solidified my opinion that NYC is truly the greatest city in the world. However, commuting to an apartment I rented with a friend in Virginia, I had a lot of extra time on my hands, so I used the federal government's excess resources to print poop reports for reading material for the bus and the commode. (Don't worry, I recycle!)

Because I had been reading PoopReport for a few months, I had become acutely aware of my bathroom habits. Unfortunately, due to quiet and spacious bathrooms that were usually empty, I had nothing significant to report. (Damn my regular bowels! Although there was a close call when the Secret Service screwed up my clearance info.) But I'm proud that I hadn't had the misfortune of shitting my new suits or having to use the sardine can they call a toilet on the commuter bus.

DC is almost exactly halfway between where I live in NJ and Virginia Tech, where my good friend from high school now goes to college. So living in Virginia put me a lot closer to him (we'll call him Dave) and allowed for a few weekend trips down to Blacksburg, tucked away in the rural (read: redneck) mountains of southwest Virginia.

I had visited before, but the campus is gorgeous in mid-spring, and Dave wanted to show me a good time. After a very normal breakfast (his mom sent him down to a school with real bagels, not sandwich rolls with holes punched out of the middle), we decided to go on a hike. Dave said it would be a long hike, so I made sure to squeeze out anything that may cause trouble later on. The eight miles up and down a three-thousand-foot mountain were exhausting, and by the time we made it back to the car, we were famished.

Like little Ralphie in The Christmas Story yearning for his teacher's approval of his Red Rider BB Gun report, I've been waiting for months for a story to make my PoopReport debut. I was like a photographer waiting for the perfect weather and light conditions to capture a breathtaking panorama. I was a hungry lion waiting to strike a helpless gazelle.

Dave knew of a farmhouse in a local town that had been converted into a southern family-style all-you-can-eat restaurant. The southern twangs and accents were coarse on our ears, but the food was good. We put away fried chicken, roast beef, pitchers of cool iced tea and lemonade, along with all the fixins: buttermilk biscuits, BBQ beans, mashed potatoes and gravy, and more. We were making our way back to campus through winding backroads when the rumbling began. I hadn't reached critical mass, but I knew it would be best to find a bathroom as soon as possible. I was just beginning to wonder if I could, in fact, make it all the way back when -- damn! -- Dave announced that he needed to stop at the campus bookstore for a few knick-knacks. I put on a brave face and figured I would just ask for a bathroom when we arrived.

I waddled behind Dave for about two blocks, blaming my now-agitated bunion (remember: eight-mile hike!) for my uncomfortable gait. Once inside the store, I didn't care where Dave was or what he was looking for. I didn't even let him know that I would soon be MIA.

"Excuse me... where can I find your bathroom?"

"Oh, well, we don't have one in this building," said the emo-chic (pink-hair, pierced-nose) clerk. "But if you walk next door to the Donaldson Brown Building -- you know where that is, don't you?"

"No, sorry... I'm not from around here."

"Well if you go right over there... blah blah blah." I didn't hear the rest as I quickly made my way in the direction she pointed.

The spasms were strong and I was panicking. Even though my target was in sight, I didn't know if I could make it all the way, but I quickened my pace just the same. If I was going to lose my load, there was no way I was doing it in front of these students tying some large metal contraption to the roof of their car. (Dave theorized that there is a southern phenomenon in which the size of whatever it is you are trying to transport and the size of your vehicle have no relation to one another. As long as you have rope to tie it down, you could strap a fully-assembled gazebo and a small townhouse to the roof of a Mini Cooper.)

Wouldn't you know: just as I walked past them, I could feel a tiny burst a liquishit breach the floodgates. It was like a coat of Pam making my tectonic cheeks frictionless. It was at this moment that my journalistic instincts kicked in, for I knew this was my debut PoopReport in the making.

I practically sprinted into Donaldson Brown. When I reached the men's room, I found a reasonably clean stall and tore my pants down to my ankles. The flood burst forth with an unparalleled magnitude. The waters that were calm only moments before were cleft in twain like Moses parting the Red Sea. A tsunami in Indonesia wouldn't have rivaled the splash my payload made.

In one big blast, my body rid itself of the fetid stew that now assailed my nostrils. To make matters worse, my ass was now sopping wet; but there are no words to describe the relief I felt. Fortunately, there was only a small streak in the underwear that made for an easy cleanup.

My ass, on other hand, was another story. Normally it's a few wipes up and down the middle, but this was not "normally." I had to wipe each cheek individually and multiple times. Still, alas, my ordeal was over.

While it looked like a lecture hall, I learned later that Donaldson Brown was a conference hall and residential building. My apologies to those I may have odiferous offended.

I returned to the bookstore calm, cool, and collected to find Dave, bewildered at my disappearance. I told him it was the southern cooking as I silently cursed it, along with the rest of my South-of-Dixie experience.

Herbert (not verified) -- 05.16.2008

Dammit, I really want to go to the South. I haven't been to the US at all yet; I'm going to DC and Arlington, VA this summer, which I'm excited about. But I really want to go on a roadtrip around the Southern states.

Only tangentially related to this story, I know, but you writing about rural Virginia and "southern twangs and accents" made me think of it.

Logjam (2442) -- 05.16.2008

Ah -- the pressure of being a PoopReporter -- of trying to observe without actively creating the story. I've had the experience several times now where I think I'm witness to (and often active participant in) a breaking story, only to have it slip through my fingers, as it were. You've done an excellent job here of maintaining the proper professional balance. Excellent writing. Welcome to the PoopReport corps, Mr. Poopypants. We need a few good, and well connected, men and women.

The Thunderous ... (687) -- 05.16.2008

Outstanding story there Mr. PP. A college dump is the worst kind HOWEVER there are many bathroom options at your disposal and luckily in your case Donaldson Brown was READY for your disposal. Brings my memories back to those Marquette days. Bathrooms of every option for every occasion and emergency. Of course I could have done without the Moleman and Goose Island graffiti. And I could never understand our schools obsession with Peter Gabriel. Grab your things I've come to take you home?!?!? What was THAT all about. But I digress. This was an excellent story great use of adjectives made me feel like I was back in college again. No matter how long you are here gang just remember at some point hopefully there will be a PR from you. I am still waiting for mine.
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The Thunderous Crapper 63 Enjoying home toilet advantage since 2004!

Pooie (not verified) -- 05.16.2008

Why do southern accents bother you? Just curious. I'm from the north, but I now live in Atlanta and I find southern accents warm and welcoming.

Mr. Poopypants (12) -- 05.16.2008

It was less the accents, and more so, the entire 'South of Dixie' experience...but in general I find the NY/NJ accent more welcoming...but I guess its just what Im used to...I dont even mind the mild twang so much...but it gets under my skin when the drawl is so bad that I cant understand what theyre saying...I suppose I was juat surprised at how thick the accents were considering I wasnt in the deep South like Arkansas or Mississippi...Im not a Southern-hater...Id even say Im intrigued by the diversity wihin the American culture...the people I worked with in DC took a business trip to NYC and found I very fast-paced and stressful...but to each his own...however, the accents just add to the frustration when you are bored to tears for 4 months in DC, shit your pants in Blacksburg and on your last nerve...sometimes it even makes u wish that we let those mother truckers secede...then we could cut a mason-dixon canal and send them out to sea!

prarie doggin (2119) -- 05.16.2008

Sounds like you made some of your own southern brown biscuits and gravy. Good reporting under pressure as it were.

Deja Poo (627) -- 05.16.2008

I'm sorry that you find us such pretentious people, Mr. PP. And I'm sorry that you found your time here to be such a dreadfully boring experience. I completely sympathize. I've been working just around the corner from you for the last 5 years and lived in NoVa most of my life. The people are self-important, the commute is horrid, the heat and humidity in August are unbearable, not to mention the dumass protesters out on the mall who actually think that anybody really gives a rat's butt about what they think. It's horrid and, quite frankly, I don't understand why so many kids flock here between semesters, when they could be just as bored close to home bagging groceries or getting a tan by the pool side.

I'll tell you what though. Just to spice up your existence, I'll see whether I can arrange for some fool who has spent too many hours looking for gawd in the sunrise to hijack an airliner and smash it into the building next door. I know that wouldn't be nearly as cool as a screaming comet but, heck, it might just break up the monotony of your paid internship and would give you something to impress the chics with when you return to campus.

Just remember, Mr. PP, that many of these pretentious, self-important career government employees (and us slimey, carpet-bagging contractors too) who work everyday within 100 yards of the the White House, Congress or the Pentagon started out as snot-nosed summer interns, just like you.
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Yo quiero Taco Bell.

daphne (3609) -- 05.16.2008

Poopypants, one of the sentences you wrote has me wondering. "My apologies to those I may have odiferous offended. I would have said "odoriferously" because it sounds like an adverb is needed here. Are both ways correct?

While the story was a bit laden with references to southern culture, maybe it was those things that made the day stand out as much as almost not making it to the toilet. Cultural differences can be as offensive as anything else when one is used to voices, opinions, and speeds of life being one way and not another.

I've liked traveling across the country for this reason, though.


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

Bilgepump (1676) -- 05.16.2008

There is not enough Viagra in the world for the South to rise again.

baron von crapalot (604) -- 05.16.2008


Is it me? or is Daphne's intellect a bit of a turn on?

Hubba hubba!!!

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Did I just fart?.... hope so!

pnuttycorn (234) -- 05.16.2008

Come to Georgia, dude. I have lived here all my life, and yes the summers are unbearable, but everyone is so nice, and the winters make up for it too. Nooo shovelin snow here. I have been to Michigan a few times and what I found interesting is I saw more rebel flags up there and more backwardness than I have ever seen down here, and they call us "ignunt rednecks".
Yes they are here, but most people are laid back and nice. And got the learnin.
Oh yeah the food! BBQ!

Bilgepump (1676) -- 05.16.2008

I really dig Daphne's bingo arms.

Bilgepump (1676) -- 05.16.2008

ignorant redneck

(runs screaming like a little girl)

daphne (3609) -- 05.16.2008

baron, we need to get you laid as soon as possible. You seem to be going through some sort of sex-deprived dementia.

I DO NOT HAVE BINGO ARMS!!!


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

Gaseous Glay (110) -- 05.16.2008

Southerners are generally nicer to Northeners than Northeners are to Southerners. Better manners, I guess. Michigan is mostly Southeners who moved North.

ChiliKahKah (84) -- 05.17.2008

Great Story.

I suggest a trip further south and a visit to the Varshity in Atlanta. You will be pleased with menu of slaw dogs, chili dogs, rings and fried pies.

In the alternative, there is always a late night trip to a Krystals or an early morning visit to a Shooney's breakfast buffet. Both are guar-an-teed to give you a southern welcome.

Finally, try and find some cheap COLD beer and a bag of fresh boiled peanuts. Trust me you will need more than one roll and a few flushes for that little bit of southern hospitality.

In each instance above, you should plan ahead to have your place of respite reserved !

C Everett Poop (649) -- 05.17.2008

For a Jersey Yankee, you seemed to have no problem with the chicken, biscuirs and iced tea. Anybody that prefers NYC to anywhere in the south is probably brain damaged but your story was pretty good.

Mr. Poopypants (12) -- 05.17.2008

Like I said, I didnt write off the South entirely, I had a bad experience.

Deja - In case you forgot, they attacked DC too...and a field in PA (noone mentions that 1)...I dont think any of us have forgotten...but if thats your idea of humor than maybe I understand why the experience was so bad
Just for the record, you didnt say anything good about the place either...Im sorry youre bored too!...but lucky for me, I was only stuck there for 4 months
Forgive me if I found it outlandish that I couldnt catch a bus out of the city past 6pm in the Nation's Capital!
(Btw...it wasnt paid...I lived for 4 months by draining the savings account)

Daphne...I meant to write 'odiferously' but my sister's computer blows! (The touchpad is hypersensitive...and the cursor does things I dont want it to do)

And CEP Im not brain damaged...I never said I ddint like the buscuits ad gravy...I just prefer pastrami on rye!

Fortunately I have never been to Michigan. I would, however, I would like to visit Atlanta and New Orleans after I recover from my initial culture shock

Herbert (not verified) -- 05.17.2008

Daphne wrote above: "baron, we need to get you laid as soon as possible. You seem to be going through some sort of sex-deprived dementia."

I don't know about Baron, but I myself have never had sex at all (and I'm 18). Does this mean I too ought to be suffering from "sex-deprived dementia"? Do you regard celibacy as an inherently unhealthy way of life?

Bilgepump (1676) -- 05.17.2008

Nope, Herb, you can't miss what you never had.

prarie doggin (2119) -- 05.17.2008

Eighteen year old virgin. His right arm should look by Popeye's by now.

Bilgepump (1676) -- 05.17.2008

Unless he's ambidextrous...

Lame comment!
Herbert (not verified) -- 05.17.2008

Do you guys ever think or talk about anything except sex?

And I just love the way you assume that everyone else has the same (low) moral standards as you. For all you know, I might be genuinely celibate (in a "vow of abstinence" sense). Catholics and Mormons, to take two examples, are in theory supposed to be 100% celibate until marriage; masturbation is forbidden. And Catholic priests and members of religious orders are required to maintain total celibacy (including abstinence from masturbation and thinking about sex) for their entire lives. You don't know me; for all you know, I could have taken a religious vow of abstinence. (I haven't, but I'm just trying to make a point here.)

Great comment! +1 point
Bilgepump (1676) -- 05.17.2008

I almost never think about sex, unless its with a fresh faced, prim and proper, 18 year old British lad....

Great comment! +1 point
Logjam (2442) -- 05.17.2008

Just go ahead and stab me right in the heart with your big ole knife, Bidge.

And what are you saying, Herb, that we ought to be careful on this site not to hurt anyone feelings? It's not just sex you've apparently sworn off, but common sense. In fact, there's a relation there. It's nearly impossible to develop common sense until you get sex out of the way. And you can't get it out of the way by depriving yourself. That, in fact, is the best way to elevate its importance. Your examples of celibate priests and the Mormon youth are two of the very best examples of this.

Bilgepump (1676) -- 05.17.2008

I said ALMOST, LJ...and don't tell me that the vision of Herb's healthy pink cheeks don't do something to you...I know you better.

Shits Happily I... (138) -- 05.17.2008

Herb, get a grip (pun intended).

Mr. PoopyPants, your harrowing tale of being on a forced Shit March was well-told, and definitely great reading. Of course, when you spoke of a pretentious shithole where you were bored to tears, living in misery, and dealing with a shitty commute, I originally thought you were speaking of Westchester County, NY. It is, of course, the epicenter of the "NY Attitude" myth and the place that gives all New Yorkers a bad name.

I think your post pisses me off a little because when first living here, I was treated like an inferior species by a former employer because I committed the crime of having lived in the south. My family has been in NY for over three centuries. As a matter of fact, a famous NYC neighborhood bears a great-grandmother's maiden name. None of this matters, though--I lived in the SOUTH! Oh, the humanity!!! The element of snobbery was truly laughable.

BTW, think about the same bucolic setting. If it were in, say, Vermont (a truly great state), would you still be inclined to make "redneck" references? I have seen more of the redneck stereotype north of the Mason-Dixon line than south--toward the Midwest, to be more exact.

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Assaulting toilets since 1977!

prarie doggin (2119) -- 05.17.2008

Hell you don't have to go far. Try visiting Pennsyltucky. (sorry Frank)

crysta1544 (13) -- 05.17.2008

I've actually been to that restaurant. The buttermilk biscuits are great! Nice story.

Celiac Spew (2) -- 05.17.2008

Ah, this story reminds me of my first year in college when I was at VT. I'll never forget the time I had the runs in the dining hall and every time someone else flushed, the water in the bowl I was sitting on would surge up and down while the sink next to me would actually shoot a little water out of the drain along with a staccato burbling sound. Good times!

Artful Dodger (352) -- 05.17.2008

Sorry Herb, but your Mormon abstinence analogy doesn't hold any water. All the mormon girls I've ever known got plenty of pipe laid to them.

But oh how they'd freak if they caught you drinking a Pepsi.

Logjam (2442) -- 05.17.2008

OK, Bilge. I'll accept the qualification. But I'm afraid that the vision you paint of Herbie does nothing for me. I'm still saving myself for daphne (and you).

daphne (3609) -- 05.18.2008

Let me get this straight....

because I, as an adult, made an adult joke at the baron for hubba-hubba-ing me, I have low moral standards?

Herbert, is that what you're saying?


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

Bilgepump (1676) -- 05.18.2008

Nah, I think Herbie was implying that he digs your bingo arms.

Shits Happily I... (138) -- 05.18.2008

PD, I was thinking more of the Cleveland area, but there are definitely parts of PA that one would indeed refer to as Pensyltucky. :)
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Assaulting toilets since 1977!

Herbert (not verified) -- 05.18.2008

To clarify, I was referring to Bilgepump and Logjam, not daphne. The "low moral standards" remark was also intended to be tongue-in-cheek. Apologies if I offended anyone.

baron von crapalot (604) -- 05.18.2008


Yeah! Daphne, your moral standards are plainly high. Butt where is your underware?

(just trying to get this shit back on topic)

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Did I just fart?.... Oh shit! NO!!

Great comment! +1 point
Bilgepump (1676) -- 05.18.2008

Herbie, dear, while my moral standards may be "low" in your opinion, be glad that I have ANY at all...

By the way, I've been celibate for over two years myself, but I'd change that in a heartbeat, should the opportunity arise.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go "volunteer" down at the senior center for room checks...maybe I can find an epilectic old lady in the middle of a seizure and...uh....help...yeah, help, thats it.

John Poo-Shack (43) -- 05.18.2008

Let's get back to talkin' shit (literally) here.

prarie doggin (2119) -- 05.18.2008

Herbert. To clarify. Whose tongue-in-whose- cheek???

Blind Mullet (187) -- 05.18.2008

Whoops, look out, the poofterometer needle just flickered again...

daphne (3609) -- 05.18.2008

Mr. Poo-Shack, feel free to discuss poop at your leisure. Don't mind us. We're just doing our own thing.

Herbert, I'm glad that I misunderstood you. We are a salty bunch here (NO PUNS - I HEAR WHAT YOU GUYS ARE THINKING) and really enjoy ribbing each other. We figure as long as you're OK with poop talk, you most likely have a lax sense of humor.

And darling baron, my underwear are exactly where they should be. In my underwear drawer. Folded neatly. And waiting dispatch. (I have an excellent underwear gnome.)


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

ChiliKahKah (84) -- 05.18.2008

Daphne,

Would that be an exlax sense of humor?

Thunderbox (838) -- 05.19.2008

Good story, Poopypants. Oddly, it seems to have ignited a bit of a Brokeback Mountain situation with some of the regulars.

By the way, Herbert - isn`t one of the perks of being a Catholic priest the opportunity to form a close relationship with the choirboys?

baron von crapalot (604) -- 05.19.2008


TB, gotchya!! you mentioned Broke Back Mountain just 'cos its on the TV as we speak!

Sneaky!
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Did I just fart?.... Oh shit! NO!!

Thunderbox (838) -- 05.19.2008

I`m at work, baron - why are you watching TV on a working day? I was just worried about the gayfest and bingo-wing love-in that`s going on in this thread.

RectalTempest (3) -- 05.20.2008

"I could feel a tiny burst a liquishit breach the floodgates. It was like a coat of Pam making my tectonic cheeks frictionless."

I lol'ed

baron von crapalot (604) -- 05.21.2008


Tb, I love you, and your bingo wings, butt I work from home, it makes porcalian access so much easier, and private for that matter.

(I agree secretly, that this is becoming a bit of a love fest, butt don't tell anyone I said so.)

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Did I just fart?.... Oh shit! NO!!

prarie doggin (2119) -- 05.21.2008

Enough! You guys have me laughing so hard I almost split my skin tight Diesel jeans.

baron von crapalot (604) -- 05.27.2008


PD, Take a breath, count to ten, and remember that those jeans come with a five year, no shit guarantee.

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Did I just fart?.... Oh shit! NO!!

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