$25,000 tub anyone?

It may resemble the Jolly Green Giant's salad bowl, but this bathtub from PS Craftsmanship is more like a one-person ark.

It's made of wood, ikoro to be precise, which comes from Africa and was formerly used to make ships.  This tub features post-ark technology.  To make it watertight, the wood is impregnated with an epoxy resin and then thickly varnished, so it works and feels like enamel or porcelain.  If the flood comes at the millennium's turn, you'll be ready.  The bathtub costs $25,000; sinks also available from $1,800 to $4,000.   Interested?
You can call 718-729-3686 for more information.

You may understand your spouse's spending 20 minutes on the throne if it looked like this one from Sherle Wagner, a designer known for 24-karat gold- plated basins, swan-necked faucets and other baroque bathroom fixtures. 

The toilet, which Wagner calls a "water closet casing", is carved from rose aurora marble and boasts a rose quartz lever and gold-leaf seat cover.  A matching "bidet casing" and pedestal lavatory are also available.  Marble sounds a little cold so let's hope Wagner follows Japan's lead and heats the seat.  The commode retails for $10,666; the bidet casing and sink, $9,823 and $8,400, respectively.
Call 212-758-3300 for more information.

Speaking of toilets...

Cartoon
by
Jeff
MacNelly

Toilet Smugglers?!?

Would you believe it ?!?  We're not kidding you here!
Americans are crossing the border to purchase illegal 3.5-gallon-per-flush toilets!

That is correct: Canada has become a major supplier of illegal 3.5-gallon toilets. These toilets were banned by Congress in 1992 under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act.   The1.6-gallon toilets are supposed to be the law of the land, but many Americans are not happy with them, "the result being that U.S. citizens now spend more time flushing their toilets than on all other forms of exercise combined"
-Dave Barry.
Apparently, Customs Service officials are saying that Customs makes NO EFFORT to confiscate the toilets. "As long as they tell us they have them,'' the official said ", it makes no difference to us.''   Read more about this hilarious, true story at  Smuggler's Blues  written by Dave Barry.