Welcome to the Piss & Moan section

11/25/09 -

Dear Editors

Attached is a photo of the left urinal on the 4th floor of the Indiana University Kelley School of Business Building. I am submitting this photo to you in commemoration of the many years of dedicated service of Larry Davidson, Professor and W. Michael & William D. Wells Faculty Fellow, to the Department of Business Economics and Public Policy and to the Kelley School of Business.

Larry told me a little over a week ago that during his many years at Indiana University this urinal has given him a great deal of satisfaction and relief and that he would like this urinal dedicated to him on the occasion of his retirement from IU. Larry is a valued colleague and, I believe, a straight shooter. I hope you will agree to this dedication by positing this photo to your web site.

09/29/09 -

HI
Discovered your site today... very good. Was amazed to see that the Philharmonic pub in Liverpool is not only [not] in your top ten.. isn't in your gallery. Don't have any pics myself but there are pics on the net...

[Ed: The urinals of the Philharmonic Rooms in Liverpool are some of our earliest photos and have been available on Urinal Dot Net since 2000]

09/29/09 -

Hello,
I think your site urinal.net is rather interesting. I have a question though, and I've wondered this for many years. Why do men need urinals in their restrooms? Men are capable of going into a stall and lifting the seat, plus a lot of times urinals don't have very good privacy. Is there really a need for urinals? I really don't use them myself much in a public restroom unless no stalls are available.
What's your feedback on this? Thanks.

08/10/09 -

Hello , I have visited your very nice website
I did like it a lot
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06/04/09 -

Dear Editor:

I just stumbled across your website while searching for a distributor of my favorite bottled spring water, Mt. Valley Spring Water from Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas. I'm sure you can imagine my amazement when the search engine produced the terms "urinal" and "Mt. Valley Spring Water" on the same webpage. (http://www.urinal.net/mvsw/)

I grew up near Hot Springs, AR drinking spring water collected and toted home in all sizes and shapes of containers from a natural public spring and fountain on Historic Bath House Row in the downtown National Park. We drank natural spring water from all manner of containers, including many types of beautifully embossed glass bottles from Mt. Valley Spring Water Company which are distributed commercially. Never would I have imagined associating Mt. Valley Spring Water with a Urinal. I consider myself a connoisseur of spring water--actually more of a water snob--as I have found no better tasting or refreshing water than that which is bottled directly from the source at Mt. Valley or even that out of the public, outdoor faucet in a downtown parking lot in my home town.

In light of my many years of water snobbery, I'm sure you can imagine my initial shock in finding the premier water of presidents featured on a website devoted to Urinals!! However, I have to admit my pride in learning that the historic Mt. Valley Spring Water Company is so well known not only for its water, but also is recognized on your esteemed website for its beautiful urinals. As a woman, I would never have known of such an honor without your insightful website featuring those incongruous vacation photos by "LD."

By the way, as a side note, I suspect the stately urinals were used as tribute to the mineral water flowing through them from the natural hot springs, which for decades served as the primary water source (for toilets, baths and heating) in most of the historical buildings of the bath houses and resorts in the downtown area of the Hot Springs National Park.

Thanks for sharing and for offering such a unique website,
Name Withheld
Native of Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas

05/18/09 -

I am purchasing a Kohler floor mount urinal for my basement. Does anyone know what is needed / how to install the rough-in for the beehive strainer? My current plumbing is 2" sch 40 PVC. Do I use a no hub similar to a shower connection? Any advice or pictures would be greatly appreciated.

05/14/09 -

hAVE YOU GOT AN ILLUSTRATION OF LORD'S CRICKET GROUND, LONDON. APPARENTLY THESE ARE VERY WELL LAID OUT AND A CLIENT HAS ASKED FOR US TO LOOK AT THEM. I HAVE 2 PROBLEMS, I AM FEMALE AND HATE CRICKET!

MANY THANKS

04/09/09 -

There's a truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story to the picture I took at the 2001 Farm Show.

Fast-forward several years after it was posted. My wife and I are at the farm where we buy our beef. Spring and fall, the farmer converts his tool shop to a meat cutting facility. As they cut your meat up, you package it. During a lull in the process, I was checking out the things on the shelves. A large photograph caught my eye. It was my picture of the urinals at the farm show! I picked it up and found out that the picture was actually the cover of a calendar. One of woody's friends made a gag calendar as a Christmas gift for him. Each month featured a different picture of the friend pretending to take a whiz in different places in Woody's house, such as his dresser drawers, the refrigerator, etc. And I thought I had a strange sense of humor.

I tried to explain to Woody, that it was my picture on the cover, but I couldn't quite get him to understand: "Woody, that's my picture! I took it at the farm show." // "Yeah, Bill said it was from the Farm Show." // "No Woody, I took it at the Farm Show and sent it into urinal.net." // "Yeah, Bill said he got it from a web site. Maybe it's the same one where you saw it. Did you print yourself a copy? That sure is a neat picture" // "Never mind, Woody. Never mind"

03/13/09 -

Hi, I find your site interesting. A site all about gathering different photo of urinals of men's restrooms throughout the world. I stumbled upon it recently. Neat and funny idea.

02/04/09 -

Dear Editor,

I wish I had seen this site before I e-mailed the folks at the Indiana University Memorial Union with my inquiry. There was a female urinal in the Union restroom (maybe more than one restroom) that I remember from the 1960's when I was a student. There were no instructions, and no one of my age had the slightest idea of how to use it. We hardly knew what it was, except that it flushed!

In a small restroom, this gigantic porcelain fixture took up a fair amount of space, especially since no one went in the stall unless desperate. It does resemble the picture you have posted from Texas A&M, so I guess I know what it is now. I wonder if IU's relic has still stands or if it has become victim of bathroom modernization.

Seriously, that stupid toilet has bugged me for over 40 years.

02/04/09 -

I went through all of your urinals, photo by photo and it took me many almost two days. Because urinals are the same; I wonder if you have a way to view all your photos in a slide show in order to save some time?

12/02/08 -

Sorry for not being specific but read the edit:

Do you any locations (state, city, place) all over America that has MALE urinals in women's restrooms and any men's restroom that men barley use because since women can pee standing up, girls has been doing it in MALE urinals like I heard a stadium around Texas build MALE urinals in the womens restroom and my boyfriend said he let me use one with him, but I just want to know, the boyfriend thing has nothing to do with it. (no rude comment please)

12/02/08 -

Hey guys.

Its Someone, you may remember that we brought you a photo of a urinal at an abandonned military complex that was sealed up for about a century and we were the first people in a veeery long time or so to see and photograph the urinal. You probably dont remember actually, youre a busy man.

Well, we have an even more ambitious project. We found what we believe to be a whole tunnel system, of unknown size, but its all sealed up exept one little vent. The doors are sealed very well with double layers of bricks with reinforced concrete in between, so no chance of it 'accidently' opening one day like that complex with the urinal mentioned above did.

We did however, after about 3 months of work, come up with a ROV thats small enough to fit through that vent. Its hard to imagine, since the vent is only 100mm x 100mm or so, but this Remote Operated Vehicle actually fits in. Its very slow, horribly underpowered and overweight (weighing in at about 1000g), and because of weight saving problems only carries one infra-red camera and only infra-red illumination, so unfortunatly it will not have color images.

Anyway, of course, if we DO come across a urinal, ill be sure to send you some pics taken from the footage.

But i am writing to you about something else. One of the things the machine will do once its in there, is leave behind a little flag, to show that our ROV has been there.

Since we are keen supporters of Urinal.net, an idea came to me to put the urinal.net logo on the flag. We have some spare space on the flag, so it will be no problem.

So what do you think about this? Its a pretty unique opportunity to get a urinal.net logo somewhere where noone has been for many decades, and probably will not be for the next many decades.

Are you ok with this?

I appreciate you are very busy and stuff but please reply quickly as the ROV is getting ready to be lowered down there in the next few days.

Thanks

-Someone

10/01/08 -

I'm glad I found your site. I have an interesting issue and a few questions.

First, you have to hear the story. Growing up on a small farm in the mountains of southern Pennsylvania, we did not have a lot of party times. Each year, though for Memorial Day, my dad's friend had a party at his mountain cabin. He kept bottles of orange and grape sodas (Wible's orange soda and Grape Ne-Hi) along with other sodas on ice in what I thought was a bathtub. We were very poor, and didn't often get the treat of a soda pop, so some of my favorite memories were reaching my hand into the icy cold water and pulling out yet another soda pop. My sister says she remembers her stomach sloshing from being able to drink all that we could handle.

So...here's the issue. I am 52 now, and last year my father completely destroyed the memory (at first). I happened to reminisce about how wonderful it was to reach into that bathtub. My father said....Oh, that wasn't a bathtub. I said (timidly) Oh....What was it? He said, "IT WAS THE URINAL FROM THE BRICKYARD".

AAAAGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!

When he said he thought it was still up on the mountain at the abandoned cabin, I immediately said that I wanted it. So, now I have it. It's about 10 feet long, and about 2 feet wide, about 8 inches high. It is bolted in 4 pieces, with a drain in the middle. My father said his friend said he took it from the Mount Union Silica Brick Company when it closed. I did some research, and the company opened in 1901, and closed in 1953.

So, apparently, I have a 100 year old cast iron and porcelain urinal. First of all, do you think, o wise urinal guru, that is really is a urinal. Being female, I'm not really an expert, but it looks like a sink to me. Our plan is to first clean it, then paint the cast iron bottom, then figure out how to re-glaze the porcelain which is pretty chipped. Then we'll build a frame for it, and put it outside the beach cottage and fill it full of ice and beer for parties.

What do you think? Any thoughts?

08/22/08 -

I'm probably pissing in the wind here, but you have a post in "piss and moan" that says in part...

4/19/06 -

"One of the places my dad worked in the automobile business was Mel Burns Ford (now out of business) in Long Beach, California. They had a customer men's room wherein the sink and the urinal were often confused. They were both long & multi gang, and looked similar, the sink being mounted only slightly higher on the wall. My dad said over the years, he had stepped in there a number of times to find someone peeing into the sink."

Well, I own a 1969 Ranchero GT that was originally sold at Mel Burns, and I am trying to find memorabilia from the dealership to display with the vehicle. Any way you might have the poster's email address, or can forward a request for me?

[Ed: Unfortunately, the original poster cannot be located.]

08/06/08 -

HELLO URINAL.NET
BEING A PLUMBER FOR 25 YRS. AND NOW I'M IN THE ESTIMATING DEPT.
I REALLY DO ENJOY THIS SITE,
I GUESS YOU COULD SAY " I DO GIVE A PISS "
KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK !
HEY ! YOUR ZIPPER'S OPEN .

12/17/07 -

Dearest friends from urinal.net.

A strange affinity had me come back for more after I had seen your website a few years back. Having always kept your site in the back of my head, i had taken some bizarre urinal pictures - sometimes under risky conditions: People in a busy public restroom in the People's Republic of China will look disturbed when they catch you while you're trying to get the best angle with your camera.

11/26/07 -

Hello, and congratulations for this most unusual site. It is very different, and as a woman, I get to see places I am not usually allowed in. Mind you, a lot of them are very boring and I don't think I am missing much. I did however love the Victorian ones from Rothesay, and as I live in Scotland, I promised myself I would visit them (if they allow me...). That page was so good that I have put a link to it on the Rothesay page on trivago, in the hope that even more people visit your fun site.

11/19/07 -

I found your site when it was the only image result that came up on a search for "Westport bar Kansas City." I thought it was pretty funny and ended up reading through the beginning of the Piss and Moan section (where this might end up). There I was directed to the Private Residence page, and made my way to Rod M's House and couldn't get enough of your comment. You say "It appears that Rod's house boasts at least two urinals," when clearly there is only one with mirrored walls around it. Maybe you should have given more consideration to that Senior Technical Writer with good urinal experience. Don't change it. Hopefully people will get as much of a kick out of it as I did.

11/14/07 -

I can only imagine the crazy stuff that arrives in your mailbox... I was sort of, uh, apprehensive about visiting the site - but its very well done. Great job.

10/03/07 -

WE HAVE A ZURN AQUAFLUSH URINAL, IT RUNS A LONG TIME BEFORE IT STOPS, AND SOMETIMES, IT DOESN'T STOP. CAN YOU TELL ME HOW TO FIX IT?????????
THANKS

09/19/07 -

Joe,

Expect to her from my attorneys. Learn how to spell.

Sincerely

[signature removed]
President & CEO

07/09/07 -

Hi:
While building link & trivia pages for my Web Site, I came upon urinal.net. I thought to myself: how interesting can pictures of urinals be? Well, I found out and have actually bookmarked your Web Site it's so entertaining. I never realized there were so many different urinal designs, some of them downright elegant. Hell, some of this stuff is art.

Also I must say, your privacy policy is entertaining too. It's a DISGRACE, but I get a kick out of honesty. I see it so seldom...

05/31/07 -

LOL O.K of all things a site dedicated to Urinals around the world. :} Now I really have seen it all.

04/27/07 -

Dearer Joe,
Hey man I really love your site and pretty much check it every other day for new urinals. Seeing that I like your site so much I am thinking sending your site a photo of a very special urinal.

03/26/07 -

I like my urinal the best, why the hell isn't it here? ...Stupid face man guy.

03/16/07 -

I loved these in Paris, but searched all over your site and couldn't find reference to or queries about them. I think they were called "pissoirs" or "pissoirtierres", and they were outdoor urinals, just on the street, a low fence (rising only to chest or neck height) forming a screen, and the part you peed on was a sheet of stone (the "tierre") that had water constantly running down it probably pumped straight from the Seine and routed right back there. Anyway, I think that they're being (or have been) phased out, and I would love to know if there are any extant and where I could find them—or even what the official name is, so I could ask some Parisians? I've not found a lot in other internet searching, either. I know there are other outdoor urinals in other countries the Netherlands, e.g. but I have a soft spot in my heart for the 19th-century-style Parisian ones. Any help you could offer: name, locations, facts—would be really appreciated! (Of course, when I find them, I'll take pictures and send them to you!)

03/16/07 -

i think ur sight is really pointless

03/05/07 -

10/20/03 -

dear sir/madam

could you please tell me were I could find out more information about the toilets that are in Leidsplein Square in Amsterdam and also in Soho, London. I may be interested in purchasing some of them.

10/18/03 -

Dear editor,

I give you high praise for a site that reminds us all to teach the young when they grow up not to let our world wipe out urinals from existence. There are many in this world due to their fears and phobias have forced businesses to take out the trough style or floor urinals to be replaced with the more modern day single person usage partitioned urinals... As I view all the newly added [photos] and the Top 10 and Top 100, I am reminded how different cultures around the world more so than USA have a more liberal open view providing urinals for public use without the need for four walls and partitions. It is sad that there are so many groups or orginizations that feel they know the needs of the masses and can influence the decision makers its in our best interests to limit, restrict, or take away our rights completely.

Your site's success offers a valuble teaching tool: about the world's customs and cultures... value art in all forms including the many various styles, colors, shapes of urinals; the creative and inovative advances we have made in plumbing yet relishing the old; bring back the word urinal when mentioned in conversation... in print, radio, internet, tv etc.; [promote urinals] thru public interest to have more shows, films, etc.; someday just maybe a urinal will be featured to make a world record involving the urinal somehow for worldwide exposure... You have spent so much time to keep this site free to view... this is my way of toasting you for excellence.

Sorry my funds do not allow me to give a donation or permit me to buy the merchandise.

10/18/03 -

Very entertaining site! Reminded me of when I was in Paris and the women's bathroom was pay only but the men's room was free. So as a lady of fine distinction I went promply to the men's room. I wish I had a picture; you would have loved it. Next time I'm traveling I'll have to take some pictures and share them with the world. Keep up the good work!

10/16/03 -

Your site is fascinating and quite entertaining. Thank you for making it with good taste in mind... (it is quite sophisticated in format) seeing that my 14 year old daughter found it. She was helping me research an antique item I bought recently to be used as a garden sink...

10/14/03 -

Bravo!! What a unique and awe-inspiring website!! While my brother was sitting at home scratching [his] out-of-work ass he found this site and sent it to me, thinking he'd gotten a one up for all the internet crap i've sent him, but he was so very wrong. I've been inspired to seek out urinals of distinction myself for my own use and amazement and shall, if an opportunity presents itself, submit a urinal for your consideration to be displayed for urinators of the web to consider for a destination of urination. As for my brother, I hope he is looking for a job on the net and not just "pissing off time." Thank you for this interesting website.

09/23/03 -

I recently came across your site while looknig for a urinal photo to put a picture of a friend's face in. Although urinals have never facinated me or grabbed my attention in anyway, I found this site... addicting... The things you find on the internet... got to love it.

09/20/03 -

Love your site - very amusing. Can't understand the people who get so incensed they have to curse at you!

08/29/03 -

Dear Editor,
I recently linked to your site through a joke-of-the-day type site, and was amused at comments on your women's urinals page. It seems that most folks can't comprehend why women would ever use one, but I remember when and why they were originally used.

I'm not all that old (mid 30's), but I remember when urinals were in use back in the day where you had to pay a dime to open the stall door. That was back during the time when women's fashions included wearing a girdle as a mainstay of daily dress. Rather than struggling in and out of girdles, garter tabs, and the like, the women's urinals began appearing as the solution. All the ladies had to do was walk up, straddle, and be done with the deed. No unhooking, unbuckling, or undressing required.

I don't know if you want to add my explanation to the website, but I thought you might like one woman's recollections. Have a nice day.

08/17/03 -

Dear Mr. Rinator,

I'm pleased and honored to have contributed, and my colleagues are understandably proud.... Keep up the fine work on your noble enterprise.

08/12/03 -

What an interesting site !! ... Lets face it, they are one thing that is essential for mankind, more so than DVDs and mobile phones. etc. Keep up the good work !

08/02/03 -

Great site!!! I'm a designer and I've gotten some good Ideas for my next building. Thanks

08/02/03 -

I think your site aims high right on the target. Keep aiming in the right direction.

07/26/03 -

Love this site, keep telling my friends about it. Its great!

07/03/03 -

I have to say that I think the site is great. It has great current and historical value, but the best part is your piss and moan section. I love it and your dry commentary.

07/03/03 -

Dawufman writes in to comment on the recent posting of photographs from the tiny desert town of Aguila, Arizona

Joe, I SALUTE YOU! THANK YOU! You are a gentelman and a scholar!

You have now helped us make our 'spot on the map'! If this turns into a tourist attraction we will put up a kiosk at our only cross street with a urinal and a computer that can only access your site. The locals are planning a street fiesta next week to celebrate.

Since this is a very small town and word travels here like a dust storm we have uncovered 4 MORE urinals!.... not counting the converted cattle feeder (it leaks all over the place) at one of the local ranches. He said it could be photographed as long as I didn't say where it was exactly....
They all want the notoriety now.. see what you have started... I now have to schedule shooting sessions for them this weekend! We just have to beat out Bisbee (AZ) even if we have to install more.

Oh Yes and another thing! The towns women are demanding a womans urinal since they saw one on your site. We are working on modifying one with fiberglass and body putty, but I don't think they'll 'buy it'. Are they expensive?

Locals have been waiting for the photo to be posted... to see which urinal would be featured this week in URINAL.net, since it was brought up at the Lazy 'G' last Friday nite at the "town meetin'". They were amazed that there were TWO! Some even called home and told mama to "turn on the computer, weez on de innernet"! It's gonna be one heck of a 4th this Friday.

There has been so much excitement here over this, that I will only submit ONE PER WEEK until all are posted.

Oh just for reference, is it politically correct to photograph a urinal without a 'cake' in it? A strainer? I have been admonished for this by a "sanitation technician" who works in the next town 25 miles away, so I thought I'd ask an authority on the subject.

Take Care (and take one for me......)

07/02/03 -

Subject: ur website is so weird!

hi. i'm a girl, and i thought it would be a funny site. it was kinda funny, kinda boring. i hate urinals because i don't ever wanna use one! in my class at school, for tornado drills, it seems my class always has to go in the boys bathroom! last year i had to stand next to the urinals, and there were, like, these pink things in them, and they smelled! it was so gross!!!

06/30/03 -

Subject: help!

Hi there.
My name is Kimberley and I am desperately trying to find out who manufactures the urinals with flies printed on them...
I am working on a movie and we want to find these.
thank you for ANY help you can provide!

06/30/03 -

To Whom It may concern:

I am receiving complaints from my customers that your website continually comes up on search engines when they are looking for my deli's website. I would appreciate it if you would remove the ad and picture of my company's urinal from your website.

This will be the only written notification that I will send to you.

Sincerely,
Jeff Simpson
Owner
The Sequoia Sandwich Co., LLC
6613232500

06/29/03 -

Being a female, I found this site very interesting. Among the boring standard urinals, there are some real standouts, especially in Hong Kong, Las Vegas, and Mexico. I was surprised to see how clean most of the facilities were.

06/18/03 -

I love your site! One of these days I'm gonna take a road trip and use as many of these as I can!

06/18/03 -

A great site. We found you while searching for a local get away for/from my mother-in-law; it had a review, from you.

06/03/03 -

hey,
my friend and i read about your site in Stance magazine, checked it out and stuff, and were like, this is tiight... Anyway, thanks for the great site, its seldom someting gives me a greater desire to piss then water, this site is one of those seldom things.

05/23/03 -

Hi Joe,
Just thought I would let you know I passed on your website to the guys at Mojo radio. They loved it!
Kris will put it on their hotlinks soon.

05/02/03 -

Subject: Urinals at Italian Village Restaurants Chicago

Are you guys totally nuts?? Why do you have so much time to badger our food when you know nothing about us???

04/24/03 -

I drive around with a urinal in the trunk of my Lexus. This particular former wall mount model was in my office men's room until said "lavatoire" was recently remodeled. It carries a bit of sentimental value because it caught, and allowed me to retrieve for medical scrutiny, a kidney stone. This past fall I photographed the urinal in and around Providence RI, adjacent to many public sculptures and monuments. Here is a sample. I'm otherwise normal.

04/07/03 -

I must say I have not seen such a kick [expletive deleted] site since deadmalls.com. I remember the days when my school chums and I would look through such sites as deadmalls and laugh our [expletive deleted]s off. I now have a new favorite site in urinal.net. The commentary is the best. I love the little snippets about each urinal, that makes it. As soon as I am done I will be emailing my friends from past about your site so we once again can laugh our [expletive deleted]s off. Its your site and our twisted humor that makes memories and keeps us in touch. Thanks for the effort and material, its great.

04/07/03 -

My friends and i were so inspired by your website that we declared last saturday international urinal apprication day and we went out to celebrate.

04/06/03 -

Thank you for such an informative site, and also thank you for using several pictures from my collection in your website (Costa Rica). I feel very privileged to be associated with scholars and gentlemen such as yourself. I will continue to seek out those urinals that I deem appropriate to have a place of honor on this esteemed site.

04/06/03 -

Compliments for the effort put into this piece of work!

04/06/03 -

From: Pcmchl@aol.com
To: editor@urinal.net
Subject: urinals

this site sux

03/31/03 -

I love your site!!! I have been dreaming of a site like this for years, then I found your's. Yes! :-)

03/27/03 -

Dear editor of one of the most surprising websites, :-) We are amazed that one of the visitors of our village pub has posted a picture on your site... we will offer you a traditional lambic-style beer in our bar. Thank you very much.

the pubowners.

02/06/03 -

I am the director of the European Business Polytechnic (Europai Uzleti Polytechnikum)in Budapest, Hungary. Accidentally I come across the contents of your website (www.urinal.net/eupoly/) which I consider absolutely and extremely unethical and unlawful. We have never given any sort of permission to any representative of your company to provide information about our school on the net. Consequently I definitely do insist on you withdraw this page from the web immediately, unless you are prepared to face serious charge and lawsuit.

dr Edit Mozer
Director of EUP

02/06/03 -

Who would have thought there would be a whole website dedicated to urinals? Go figure.

The reason that I am contacting you is that we deal with Alzheimer's disease and other dementia related disorders. I speak to caregivers, helping them create more Alzheimer's-friendly environments. Among the problems they face is misinterpreting planters, pots, and even fountains for urinals as they progress deeper into the disease. When I was in Atlanta I happened to photograph a long fountain that looked just like a trough urinal. I joked with a friend how likely it would be to one day find someone misusing it. I am now looking for a photo of a trough urinal that resembles this photo so that I might put them both up on a screen and compare the. Your shot of the Skylark will do just fine. Would you please grant me permission to use a copy of your photo for presentation and possibly publication.

11/26/02 -

I was in Lisbon Portugal last year and came across some of THE COOLEST mens rooms I have EVER seen. I don't have any pictures of them unfortunately but thought maybe you could get the word out to some fellow travelers to get them for you. The city of Lisbon(Lisboa) has a pretty cool club/disco area right under its main bridge(the sister bridge to the Golden Gate actually) These discos have some pretty amazing plumbing in their facilities, cascading waterfalls, lots of water and marble VERY COOL and I am not that fascinated by plumbing.

11/15/02 -

What a fine place on the web you have created! It definitely seems as if we share come common interests and sensibilities. Thanks for carving out place on the web for urinals.

9/24/02 -

Thank you Super Urinal Man.
Since the Landlord of the Chequers Inn, Wareside UK, saw his stalls on the worldwidewee he has spent all his time in the bog.
Out: the orange reflectors, mix-n-match pipework and glossed-over plastic
In: potpourri, doilie-concealed spare loo rolls, tissue boxes...
hang on a bit, I'm in the ladies'!
The gents' is much better too.
Thanks again. Cheque to the usual address?

9/20/02 -

Your site's fantastic, only comparable to the fascinating experience of entering to an unknown restroom and wondering "what kind of urinal will I find this time..."

8/22/02 -

I really enjoy your site and have mentioned it to many people. It has been the topic of discussion at our lunch table many times!

8/20/02 -

From: Ferrari <rcferrari@yahoo.com>
To: editor@urinal.net
Subject: Urinal.net

Another web site affected with terminal cuteness. Too bad you don't know the difference between funny and stupid.

8/20/02 -

I can't believe your website! What a great idea.

8/19/02 -

Highly amusing and weirdly interesting - let's face it, everyone who drinks the finer things in life (draft beer) spends a lot of time staring at these things.

8/19/02 -

Hi, my name is [name deleted], I just find out your website by the Yahoo "Yahoo! Picks for August 18, 2002".  It is very interesting and it really make me wonder about the subject of the different urinal around the world.

8/19/02 -

I found your site in Yahoo's Picks for this week. I was so pleased to find McSorley's urinal on the site (and on the top 10). I've moved out of New York several years ago and so I haven't been to the pub in some time, but I've enjoyed describing these porcelain treasures on may occasions. And now, there's a pic!

8/6/02 -

This is the best site that I have ever been to, and praise to the inventor. You have made the most brilliant website ever!!!

7/22/02 -

I work for the airline that operates out of IYK and am familiar with the Two Sisters Restaurant. I was so thrilled to see that our little community finally got some recognition. I think your site is such a wonderful example of how the internet can really change lives.

7/17/02 -

Some of the men at the office where I work don't know how to flush a Urinal, so I created the attached [PowerPoint presentation]

I hope you find it amusing.

6/21/02 -

[Just] another enthusiast thanking you for putting up a site like Urinal.net

6/21/02 -

I think your site is quite mad; I approve!

Have just seen the picture of the outdoor urinals at Charing Cross. Around Christmas/New Year time I saw some similar to these at Shepherds Bush in West London. I think these were just temporary, there was a fairground nearby...

6/1/02 -

This is one of the best sites I have ever seen!!!!

5/20/02 -

To the editor,

I unfortunately do not have a photo to submit, but I would like to nominate a urinal to add to your esteemed list. This would add to you list of urinals in the state of Nebraska. Unfortunately the one at the Henry Dorly Zoo is so pedestrian. I am a graduate of the College of Architecture at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. The building for the College of Architecture is the oldest on campus (being built in the 1890's). The mens room there had two huge semi ornate porcelain urinals that date from nearly the completion of the building. In the porcelain was cast the name of the manufacturer of the urinals; the "Hinsdale Company". Because of that, they were refereed to around the college as "The Mighty Hinsdales". They were so loved and honored that each autumn the college would hold a celebration called "Hinsdale Day". The day would be celebrated with a reception in the main gallery of the college with apple cider and brownies. Guided tours of the mens room would be offered to the female faculty, staff, and student body. When the college facilities were extensively remodeled, renovated and expanded in the mid-1980's there was no question that the Hinsdales had to be moved and saved. They were reinstalled in a mens room in renovated facilities and honored with a engraved brass plaque mounted on the wall above them at eye level. The plaque explained the history and lore of the "Mighty Hinsdales" and ended with this quote from Shakespeare, "for this relief, much thanks".

I hope that the lore of Hinsdale Day has continued at the College of Architecture. I was a student there from 1977-1979, and having lived in southern California since then I have not had much contact with the University.

5/16/02 -

You certainly deserve praise for originality and daring. I will continue to recommend your site to friends who may be more porcelain-oriented than myself.

5/16/02 -

I think your site is a real pisser keep up the good work!

5/13/02 -

From: robert anderson <gwenstefani63@msn.com>
To: editor@urinal.net
Subject: greetings

you are obscene...i will report you to the pmrc, that is, the parents music resource center
064608417

4/19/02 -

Yes, I am female, and very curious about this stuff... after all I am a janitor that cleans urinals daily and I think I have a pretty good job... I'm fascinated by urinals, and I think my job is great, getting to see all urinals in many different locations.

I love your site! It's really great!

4/18/02 - A professor of Anthropology writes about our site as a collection:

My sense is you start with a great class of objects--everybody has to pee, so its a universal experience-- and focus on the experiential aspect of standing before a urinal, so its less about the variation in urinals or their history than our common experiences taking leaks in all sorts of weird places with different shaped receptacles and often-disgusting physical conditions. I would guess thats why so many folks peruse the page and find it oddly magnetic: its easy to find some common experience here somewhere, so maybe deep down thats what the page is about at a social level--taking a leak is a great social leveler for folks of all classes and cultures and in all times and places. You would know better than me if there is a pedagogy intended here, something visitors are supposed to "learn" from the collection: this is not really clear to me, but every collector has their own emphases, and I've assumed yours is using a piece of material culture to see a universal experience [emphasis added]. Let me know if that sounds true in some fashion or if I've thought too long about this. I have this list of good collection criteria around and could send it to you just to see what I started with in framing the subject.

Its a great site and an interesting idea.

4/16/02 - from an internet blog:

The whole concept is completely rediculous [sic], yet I found myself browsing the entire site.

4/9/02 -

Love the site.... Great idea.

2/10/02 -

As a retired plumber and having fitted many dozens of urinals nationwide,
I find your site 'a breath of fresh air'...

1/17/02 -

You are just too good.............!!
Keep up the great work.

1/15/02 -

I find it remarkable just how accurate you are. Keep up the great work!

1/14/02 -

hi,
sorry my bad english,
this site is the best, very congratulation.

1/11/02 -

Awesome site. Well, not "awesome" but it beats working.

1/2/02 -

After a e-mail conversation with a friend using the restroom in a rural village in Japan, someone sent me to your site. What an incredible collection of toilets.

12/25/01 -

I'd be honored if you used my photo of the German Autobahn urinal.

12/25/01 -

Thank you. Your site is very interesting, and I enjoyed the pictures.

12/13/01 -

may your urinals stay diverse and interesting for ever more

12/10/01 -

Some urinal Haiku I wrote after stumbling upon your site.

Lovely works of art
Urinals of yesteryear
Vitreous beauty

Lucky is the man
To hear that powerful flush
From that Sloan handle

11/28/01 -

I didn't say before, but I have been a fan of your site for some time now... Anyway, the quality of [your] pics is superb; there are certainly some unusual urinals in the US especially the pedestal type...

11/14/01 -

Your website has been a source of daily amusement for me and for this reason I am pleased to send you my contribution.
...
I am wishing you all the best with your most informative website and once again I would be honoured to feature with my contribution.

10/19/01 -

Let me take the opportunity of saying what a nice and very original site you have. Thank you very much

10/17/01 -

Subject: wow

Hey there: I just read about this site in PM magazine. My wife always made fun of me when I took pics of urinals. We've done a lot of travelling and I have several pics of funky urinals. When I get a chance, I'll scan them and send along your way. This is great. I've used some of the one's on the site, especially the Cairo Train Station (I lived in Egypt for 3 years).

10/13/01 - An exerpt from an email from a representative of the Sloan Valve Company

If you're not familiar, Sloan manufactures Flush Valves for Both Urinals and Closets which are used the world over. Many of your photos show our product hard at work, like a little chrome sentinel standing guard, ready for action - A lone Soldier manning his post in the vastness of the Urinalverse.

10/12/01 -

Lads, i heard ye on the Gerry Ryan show this morning in Dublin,... hell ye were well asleep!!! Far from full of life but hey whats the craic [sic]? ... Well i said id bookmark ye'r site so well done....only the greats get into me favourites...

Anyway ill give it a look but only cos i have [expletive deleted] all work to do today and even if i did its friday so [expletive deleted] that.

Hey whats this about job opportunities?

10/9/01 -

I think that is the most bull[expletive deleted] site I have ever seen in my life.

10/9/01 -

Hello, all you guys at the offices of Urinal.net, a site I love visiting!

Your site is the best!!! Since I am female, I don't get a chance to see these things... You boys are great, and keep up the excellent work! I want to see more!!

I love checking out your site, in fact I look every day to see if there are any new urinal fixtures or troughs posted.

Keep up the good work, because your site is by far the best online!

10/4/01 -

Your site is a riot!!!

We 6 females had so many laughs over these strange looking urinals.... Keep those pictures coming in!!!!!!!

10/2/01 -

Thank you so much for your site. Not only are you a scholar, but a gentleman.

9/24/01 -

Thanks for the site, at first it may seem ridiculous, but it is indeed funny and educational. I have seen a few of those in your archives, especially the one from Madonna Inn at San Louis Obispo.

9/24/01 -

This is the greatest site ever...!!!!!!!!!!!!!

9/21/01 - From an internet message board:

Why in the name of rampaging haggis has someone made a website about Urinals?

9/7/01 -

Hello you lovely people
Love your website, and thank-you for satisfying my curiosity - being female, I don't get to see too many of these.
All in all, 9/10, lads!

8/31/01 -

I heard you on the radio here in phoenix Arizona and laughed at the idea of your site. A few days later, I came across some cool looking urinals in Budapest, Hungary and immediately thought of you.

8/30/01 -

Hi there,
What a fun site! I'm brazilian and a bit ashamed that only ONE urinal, in Bahia, is shown.
But, what a great idea!
I had great fun.

8/27/01 -

I was doing a search for something (totally different) and your site came up .. so i had to check it out. Very well done and entertaining... interesting to see how different the urinals are from around the world and the times thru history...

8/17/01 -

I think Urinal.Net is a great site. It is exciting to see the various fixtures, especially the older urinals.

8/17/01 -

Congratulations to your excellent idea. it's been great fun to browse through your website and check out all the different places where men can get rid of all the beer.

all the best and keep rocking

7/19/01 -

I read a tiny article about you in today's paper and just had to see it to believe it. Needless to say, only on the internet can you see something that will always be a topic of small talk whenever serious discussions are not in order. You made me laugh so hard I had to go you-know-where.

7/14/01 -

Your site is, oddly enough, one of the more entertaining places I regularly visit. Thanks for giving people's bladders a good laugh and hours of good clean fun.

7/14/01 -

And they say it can only happen in America! Well done anyway for being original. Thought you might be interested in a call of nature which I had back here Down Under to an Outback country garage. Very surprisingly the urinals were in pristene condition but above hung a sign which read, "If you piss on the floor at home please do so here....we want to make you feel at home." I never thought to take a photo but then I didn't know of the existence of "urinal.net" and the pity is I guess I'll never pass that way again.

7/10/01 -

[G]reat site... I hope your future is flush with success...

6/26/01 -

I discovered your website in October, when I was searching around for urinals for the fun of it. As I do RA duty over the summer I am constintally on your site. It's one of the best sites out there!

6/21/01 -

I frequently stream in to urinal.net -- I love your site!! I've got a small urinal [because I have a small bathroom] that I will soon have installed and use at home. Do other guys have [or want?] home urinals? Any pictures of "at home" urinals? Of course, for guys, "the world is a urinal". Seems to me that when it comes to urinals, there isn't much middle ground -- you either love 'em or you hate 'em. Keep up the great work...

6/18/01 -

I think you have performed a fine service with your website.

5/17/01 -

I ran across your site on "Internet Tonight" on TechTv...Great idea!

5/14/01 -

EXCELLENT SITE!! ... Indeed, your site is quite the pisser and I intend to leak the secret out.

5/6/01 -

I was completely unaware that such a magnificent site had been created. A search for urinals led me here i was simply devastated that I had not thought of the idea myself. I must say, though, i doubt I could match the splendor of your site. You've rekindled my interest in photography. I'm dusting off the old Voigtlander as i type this.

4/18/01 -

Very amusing site. My hubby found out about it from an article in Maxim magazine.

4/12/01 -

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3/29/01 -

Editor,
What a great site. Your team does a great job of keeping it updated.

3/22/01 -

Dear Sir(s): This is what the 'net' is all about!! Very creative site.

3/15/01 - This note was posted on a website called www.boringguys.com

Next on the list is Piss your time away [urinal.net]. The title alone leaves room for ridicule among other things. I wish my vocabular [sic] was larger so that I could rant along side the rest of the BG/GEKKO guys, but instead I just gotta grumble the best way I can....in Spanish! Yo me orinaria en el keyboard si no lo ensusia!!!!!! [author's emphasis] Eether [sic] way, I almost cried from being so uninterested and disgusted.

3/15/01 -

Hi--Just a note here to tell you that you are doing good work! I love urinal.net.

3/13/01 -

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3/1/01 -

Interesting site. Those guys on the [USS] Hornet had it made! I served aboard the USS Yorktown, a carrier of the same class as the Hornet(Essex Class). Yorktown was built in 1943. I was aboard from 1963 to 1966. The urinals in the enlisted heads were stainless steel! not porcelain, and we had to keep those things shined up every day. "like a diamond in a goat's ass" according to the Chiefs. The commodes were the same and also had to be kept shined.

2/28/01 -

I admit I didn't find your site by accident, like everyone else on here claims, but it is very.....intriguing?! Where else can you look at pissers and art in the same picture? This has got to be the coolest site out there because you don't waste time with all the crap! :)

2/28/01 -

great site!

2/25/01 -

Your site is awesome.

2/13/01 -

Your site is fantastic.

1/2/01 -

Superb Site!!!

Rejoice in effluential majesty. Unfortunately I don't have a photo for you at the moment but you must try & get someone to grab a shot of the 'Pierhead' restored Victoriana loos at Rothesay, Isle of Bute, in the Firth of Clyde, SW Scotland. It's touted as a tourist attraction by the local council and the place itself is a living working work of art complete with attendants/guides in period costumes. So much so it's a bloody shame to 'go' there.

Regards, & keep up the good work, JaMac

1/2/01 -

I happened to stumble onto your wonderful website...

...and sometimes there is a rare gem of a site like yours.

11/27/00 -

What a great site! Keep up the great work.

11/9/00 -

Your website is very informative and educational...

10/28/00 -

When i took a vacation to San Diego, California, i just happened to go to OLD TOWN. now, they dont exactly have great urinals there, buts its where they placed them that counts. The urinals were outside, in the middle of no-where, with no doors. they had walls, but only on the sides!

9/20/00 -

Fascinating site, which I found by chance! ...

There used to be some interesting ones at Nanchang airport, and I recall using a very basic outdoor example at Micklethwaite Wesleyan Reform Chapel in Yorkshire. Alas, many of these examples of older urinals have now been swept away, and I fear that few will remember them or lament their passing.

Keep up the good work!

9/16/00 -

From: Edwin Seefeldt <edbobbie@conninc.com>
To: editor@urinal.net
Subject: discusting [sic]

I stumbled across "URINAL.NET", by accident. I have never seen anything so repulsive in my life. I cannot imagine the amount of time and money wasted on such a project. What morron [sic] dreamed up this. I've seen many "[expletive deleted] for brains" projects, but this one takes the cake.

Later.........

9/13/00 -

Subject: awesome site

"Five Flushes"

9/12/00 -

"I think that's quite a good site. Someone has taken note of the variety and functional beauty of the mundane. Urinals are quite interesting in their variety and the character they develop with age.

I'm thinnking that maybe [site name removed] should have a site of the week and this should be the first. It's a site where photography is the most important feature, it has the work of many photographers, it's interesting and engaging, and dammit, I like it!"

9/10/00 - This newspaper article appeared in the Palm Beach Post on 9/8/00

9/10/00 -

Best site on the net!

9/3/00 -

Very interesting site. You guys need to check out the urinals at the MAIN STREET STATION in downtown Las Vegas, NV. They are made out of Plexiglass and are mounted to a huge piece of the Berlin Wall. Since the urinals are transparent, it seems as though one is relieving themselves directly on the "Wall", which, by the way, displays a Certificate of Authenticity and lots of the original graffity from East- and West German "Artists".

(3/14/01) A trip to Las Vegas was undertaken by some memberes of the staff of Urinal Dot Net and pictures from Main Street Station Hotel and Casino can now be found in our urinal gallery.

9/1/00 -

Just thought of a few things. I don't have any pictures but I know where there are a few interesting urinals in England and France. THe McDonalds on the Champs Élysées in Paris (the one near the Arc de Triomphe) has an ornate marble wall style (or bog as they say in England). There is a semi-circle of urinals at the British Museam (1st level). Directly west of the Tower of London there are three of the old classic public restrooms all with very old long wall style urinals. The train station in Newport, Wales has rather oddly placed urinals. They're on a platform and they are parrallel to the stalls. The urinals at the hotel bus lobbey in Heathrow Airport are classic 1960's British urinals. And the urinal at the Palace of Versailles (the one in the back) is odd in that you go down a set of stairs and whenever anyone opens the door you are visible to the enitre courtyard. There also is a classic old British public restroom at Covent Garden (down some steps) I went on my trip last December and some of my details are a little sketchy but maybe you can have some of your foreign "correspondants" grab some photos.

9/1/00 -

Great Site!!! ...

8/29/00 -

Hello --

Great site, great site, great site. Bathroom humor always is a winner and you are obviously at the top of that heap (really, that's a good thing)...

Again, great site -- don't let it go down the tubes.

8/28/00 -

... Thanks for a really interesting site!

8/21/00 -

What a great website! ...

8/17/00 -

...Terrific website, btw. Just discovered it.

8/15/00 -

You have a great site here....

8/9/00 -

Congratulations on your site...

5/8/00 -

Have your heard about the urinals at the Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo, California? The San Luis Obispo Chamber of Commerce is proud of them and considers them a tourist attraction for the city.

Here's the excerpt from the brochure: MEN'S ROOM AT MADONNA INN:

"A trip to San Luis Obispo wouldn't be complete without visiting the men's room at the Madonna Inn. As crazy as it sounds, this room is a popular stop for both men and women. Unfortunately, if you're a man and need to use this for it's original purpose, be prepared to be interrupted by giggling women with cameras. Madonna Inn is a motel with each room having its own theme (like the caveman room). There is also a restaurant, wine cellar, and a few shops in the main building. Mrs. Madonna loved the color pink which you'll see everywhere but luckily they haven't repainted in awhile so it's not as fluorescent as it once was. Once you enter the main building, go down the staircase at the right. This will take you to the wine cellar, and pay phone in the Flintstones-like rock cave. The men's restroom is to the left. Here you'll find the attraction... a urinal that looks like a waterfall which is activated when you break a beam of light. Yep, that's it!"

A trip to San Luis Obispo has been recently undertaken by the employee-owners of Urinal Dot Net. Please, go to the Madonna Inn page to see the photgraphs.

4/19/00 -

Hello Joe U. Rinator,

Thank you! I love your site. Brilliant is what comes to mind. You made my morning.

3/24/00 - The following resume and cover letter was submitted for our attention. We are currently working on an adequate compensation package for this candidate.

Please send all inquiries and praise to editor@urinal.net