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Related: About this forumPhiladelphia took a "Potty Poll" to rename its new outdoor public bathrooms
Philadelphia Inquirer link: https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/philadelphia-new-public-restroom-name-poll-20230628.html
After deciding on its new, spiffy, up-to-date public bathrooms for city parks and public areas ...
... the Philadelphia Department of Public Health must have known Philadelphians wouldnt take too kindly to the city calling its new public restrooms "Portland Loos," even though that is their actual name.
So last Friday, the department put out an online Potty Poll asking the public to help pick a Philly-related name for the six stand-alone bathrooms that will be part of its pilot public restroom project.
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Though the citys poll only offered three predetermined names for people to vote on Phlush, Philly Loo, or Philly Public Restroom Philadelphians were more than happy to flush out their own creative ideas on Twitter. There were very few stinkers among the suggestions.
Porta Jawn received an especially high number of entries, along with other punny names like Philly Jawn and Jawnny on the Spot.
So last Friday, the department put out an online Potty Poll asking the public to help pick a Philly-related name for the six stand-alone bathrooms that will be part of its pilot public restroom project.
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Though the citys poll only offered three predetermined names for people to vote on Phlush, Philly Loo, or Philly Public Restroom Philadelphians were more than happy to flush out their own creative ideas on Twitter. There were very few stinkers among the suggestions.
Porta Jawn received an especially high number of entries, along with other punny names like Philly Jawn and Jawnny on the Spot.
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Philadelphia took a "Potty Poll" to rename its new outdoor public bathrooms (Original Post)
FakeNoose
Jun 2023
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3catwoman3
(25,430 posts)1. I like "Wee The People."
cloudbase
(5,744 posts)2. Trump Dump. n/t
MichMan
(13,156 posts)3. Pissy McPisser
FakeNoose
(35,657 posts)4. Somehow I don't think that would fly
In Pittsburgh we mainly call them "Porta-Johns" but that's pretty much what everyone else calls them.
Only in Philly would they say "Jawns" instead of "Johns," or "wudduh" instead of "water".