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* In ''[[Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator]]'', in response to the grandparents taking too much Wonka-Vite, the Oompa-Loompas perform a song telling the sad tale of a little girl who foolishly helped herself to the tastiest-looking stuff in her grandma's medicine cabinet — which turned out to be chocolate-flavored laxatives... It takes up [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|several pages]]. |
* In ''[[Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator]]'', in response to the grandparents taking too much Wonka-Vite, the Oompa-Loompas perform a song telling the sad tale of a little girl who foolishly helped herself to the tastiest-looking stuff in her grandma's medicine cabinet — which turned out to be chocolate-flavored laxatives... It takes up [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|several pages]]. |
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* Another [[Roald Dahl]] example is in ''[[The BFG]]'', where the titular Big Friendly Giant explains how he hates human soda, which has rising bubbles, thus causing the drinker to burp. Burping is phenomenally rude to giants, so instead they drink frobscottle, which has bubbles that sink, thus causing the drinker to... well... [[Unusual Euphemism|whizzpopper]]! |
* Another [[Roald Dahl]] example is in ''[[The BFG]]'', where the titular Big Friendly Giant explains how he hates human soda, which has rising bubbles, thus causing the drinker to burp. Burping is phenomenally rude to giants, so instead they drink frobscottle, which has bubbles that sink, thus causing the drinker to... well... [[Unusual Euphemism|whizzpopper]]! |
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* ''[http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_municipal.htm Municipal]'' by [[Rudyard Kipling]] is a dramatic (and almost epic) proof that [[Tropes Are Not Bad|this sort of humour is not always cheap]]. |
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131205055013/http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_municipal.htm Municipal]'' by [[Rudyard Kipling]] is a dramatic (and almost epic) proof that [[Tropes Are Not Bad|this sort of humour is not always cheap]]. |
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* ''[[Uncle John's Bathroom Reader]]'' zig-zags this. One page will have a fart joke, the next will have a scientific article on ''why'' we pass gas, and the third will have an article about something crazy like a gold-plated toilet. |
* ''[[Uncle John's Bathroom Reader]]'' zig-zags this. One page will have a fart joke, the next will have a scientific article on ''why'' we pass gas, and the third will have an article about something crazy like a gold-plated toilet. |
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* In [[Derek Robinson]]'s novel of the Battle of Britain, we first learn ''why'' Air Commodore Bletchley is nick-named "Baggy". Then his death is described in excruciating detail - he becomes trapped in a portable chemical toilet when the air-raid siren goes. Deciding to cross his fingers and sit it out - well, squat it out - he chooses wrongly and the whole lavatory is seen bowling across the airstrip, propelled by a hail of cannon and machine-gun fire from a strafing German plane. |
* In [[Derek Robinson]]'s novel of the Battle of Britain, we first learn ''why'' Air Commodore Bletchley is nick-named "Baggy". Then his death is described in excruciating detail - he becomes trapped in a portable chemical toilet when the air-raid siren goes. Deciding to cross his fingers and sit it out - well, squat it out - he chooses wrongly and the whole lavatory is seen bowling across the airstrip, propelled by a hail of cannon and machine-gun fire from a strafing German plane. |
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