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Untold billions of dollars are wasted every year by employees falling asleep, e-mailing, playing Doom, etc. in the bathroom.
The Brown-Noise Generator attaches to your standard dunny and operates when weight is on the seat.
The (mildly obnoxious) noise has 3 advantages:
1) shields the occupant
from outside noise
2) ensures that the occupant won't want to spend alot of time in the stall
3) ensures that the occupant doesn't have to spend alot of time in the stall
Wikipedia: Brown note
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_note
Srimech is right! [jutta, May 01 2008]
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the "myth" is it's based on the length of your intenstine, iirc... people have different lengths of intenstine I imagine, so a fine-tune frequency control might be in order. |
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That would be true if the (sp.->) intestine were a rigid, resonant pipe, filled with a uniform gaseous media, and the vibration were applied to its open end. A gooshy mass 'o guts wouldn't have the structural rigidity to vibrate even if it were enimatically polished and flatulently filled from end to end. |
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whoa that's weird... I actually do know how to spell 'intestine'... apparently my fingers don't...err, "enimatically" ? |
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Since I just made that one up, I doubt you'll be able to prove it's not spelled correctly. <grin>
<edit><ungrin>Except I realized later that I didn't follow the root spelling so, yes, it should have been "enematically". |
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-_- or I could do what I did which was to look in a dictionary... I still think 'alot' is a word; yes I *know* it isn't, but "a lot", to me, implies usage as a group. |
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Low frequency sound makes you feel nauseous. It may not achieve objective 3) of actually speeding up the process and it's too low to hear so won't achieve 1) but I'm pretty sure it will manage number 2). |
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A pedantic point, but this mythical frequency should be called the brown note, not brown noise which is something different. |
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I thought this was "Brown-Nose Assistance". |
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"Yes sir, I'll get your problem fixed right away. You're pretty smart, noticing so quickly that your software and your hardware aren't getting along very well." |
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