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FakeNoose

(35,657 posts)
Wed Jun 28, 2023, 06:23 PM Jun 2023

Philadelphia 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 wouldn’t 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 city’s 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 OP
I like "Wee The People." 3catwoman3 Jun 2023 #1
Trump Dump. n/t cloudbase Jun 2023 #2
Pissy McPisser MichMan Jun 2023 #3
Somehow I don't think that would fly FakeNoose Jun 2023 #4

FakeNoose

(35,657 posts)
4. Somehow I don't think that would fly
Wed Jun 28, 2023, 08:33 PM
Jun 2023

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".

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