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NASA

Government Toilet Fixed, In Space

Deep Space Homer.America is back! Our astronauts floating in that useless goddamned tin can that uselessly orbits around the Earth forever can finally take off their shitty diapers and use a toilet again. This is because Our Government sent one of its three unexploded space shuttles up to low-earth orbit, at a cost of Many Billions of Dollars, to deliver a new toilet from Home Depot. That’s one small shit for man, and one giant shit for mankind. [AP/Google]


2:08 PM on Wed June 4 2008
By Ken Layne
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  1. I dunno…the whole damn story is startin’ to smell.

  2. AudicityofHope says at 2:11 pm, June 4th, 2008

    I’m more worried about the flying shit coming out of Terry McAuliffe’s ass/mouth down here on Earth.

  3. loudmouthredhead says at 2:11 pm, June 4th, 2008

    As amusing as floating feces is, I’m sure the astronauts were much happier to return to having them sucked out of their rectums. Hey kids, wanna be an astronaut?

  4. NoWireHangers says at 2:13 pm, June 4th, 2008

    Whitey on the moon, indeed.

  5. MathewBrooks says at 2:14 pm, June 4th, 2008

    Let us all give thanks and shit.

  6. AngryBlakGuy says at 2:15 pm, June 4th, 2008

    …the diaper that they haven’t used yet will be donated to the McCain campaign.

  7. AudicityofHope says at 2:17 pm, June 4th, 2008

    How did Hillary “Full of Shit” Clinton get stuck in the pipes of the space commode?

  8. Sussemilch says at 2:17 pm, June 4th, 2008

    I’m stepping in the guano
    And it’s floating in a most peculiar way
    And I’m hoping you’ll fix the loo today

  9. Oh yes loudmouthredhead! Now there’s a job for JohnnyOnDaSpot Lanny! While certainly Qualified, the man simply will not accept theposition without a Big Fancy Title, and “ShitSucker” ain’t gonna cut it. How about Assistant Secretary of ShitSucking? Lanny Davis, A.S.S.!

  10. choinski says at 2:17 pm, June 4th, 2008

    CNN.com’s main page calls it, in their infinite mastery of adult English, ‘Space Station Potty gets repairs’

  11. AudicityofHope says at 2:18 pm, June 4th, 2008

    “That’s one small turd for Earth, one giant bowel movement for mankind”

  12. AngryBlakGuy says at 2:19 pm, June 4th, 2008

    …I feel sorry for any alien that decided to go ANAL PROBING in the past week up there.

  13. ForeignSickSpecialist says at 2:20 pm, June 4th, 2008

    Is the new one reversible, like Lanny Davis’s digestive system?

  14. AngryBlakGuy says at 2:20 pm, June 4th, 2008

    …”Houston, I think I may have just given birth to and alien. Please check my diaper and confirm”

  15. tunamelt says at 2:20 pm, June 4th, 2008

    choinski: CNN is apparently everyone’s seven-year-old brother.

  16. Advocatus_Diaboli says at 2:23 pm, June 4th, 2008

    Great. Now NASA scientists can get back to shitting on science.

  17. AngryBlakGuy says at 2:23 pm, June 4th, 2008

    …all the astronauts have been forced to hold it because most of the diaper have been taken by psycho obsessed astronauts on cross country road trips!

  18. Big Al1317 says at 2:23 pm, June 4th, 2008

    What does it say about the United Corporations of America when we have to use fraking Russian toilet parts to fix the crapper on the space station?

  19. loudmouthredhead says at 2:24 pm, June 4th, 2008

    choinski: Would you prefer something like…
    1. Shiiiiiit iiiiin Spaaaaaaaaace
    2. Super Dooper Pooper Scooper
    3. Ass-tro Can
    4. Alien Turd Burgler
    take your pic :)

  20. AudicityofHope says at 2:24 pm, June 4th, 2008

    AudicityofHope: Damnit, that should be *man* not “Earth”

  21. shortsshortsshorts says at 2:25 pm, June 4th, 2008

    Ya and of course the RUSSIANS fixed it. Soviet bastards.

  22. loudmouthredhead says at 2:26 pm, June 4th, 2008

    In stead of “floaters”, would they be called “orbiters”?

    I’m sorry, it’s just been so long since I’ve had an opportunity to make poo jokes. It is to cry!

  23. Serolf Divad says at 2:28 pm, June 4th, 2008

    Anyone know what direction the toilet water flushes in low Earth orbit?

  24. Historically, these things are damned important. Also, have you considered the effects of ‘expulsion of reaction mass’ (farting) in zero-G? Let’s just say ’self-propulsion’ and leave it at that. One presumes the ’special’ toilet has restraints of some kind, or at least handles.

  25. mookworthjwilson says at 2:28 pm, June 4th, 2008

    The saddest thing though is, even though the crapper is fixed, Barry still can’t find it…

  26. Lionel Hutz Esq. says at 2:29 pm, June 4th, 2008

    Stupid carbon rod. It’s all just a popularity contest!

  27. SayItWithWookies says at 2:29 pm, June 4th, 2008

    Did they try jiggling the handle?

  28. Lionel Hutz Esq. says at 2:29 pm, June 4th, 2008
  29. Paultardville says at 2:33 pm, June 4th, 2008

    Astronauts are such elitists with their $19 million space toilets. Hillary poops in a wooden outhouse while drinking beer.

  30. Mabalz Eshari says at 2:34 pm, June 4th, 2008

    “Dropping the Kids off on the Moon”

  31. shortsshortsshorts says at 2:35 pm, June 4th, 2008

    In Soviet Russia, Toilet flush YOU.

  32. Lionel Hutz Esq. says at 2:37 pm, June 4th, 2008

    Actually, the toliet isn’t broken. The Bush political appointees refuse to believe in this science stuff, and simply believe that the astronauts should use an outhouse like they do.

  33. ManchuCandidate says at 2:39 pm, June 4th, 2008

    The space shitter is basically a vacuum that sucks and blows. It sucks out shit/piss/TP from around the astronaut’s uranus and blows the air out of the station through a vent to freeze dry stuff.

    For 5/10 million bucks, you’d think that this thing would suck or blow as much as it should.

  34. shortsshortsshorts says at 2:40 pm, June 4th, 2008

    Lionel Hutz Esq.: I was under the impression the Bush administration used the White House Press Corp. ?

  35. StrangelyBrown says at 2:40 pm, June 4th, 2008

    No money pit orbits the earth forever. Remember Skylab?

    Who was it who said “we have to continue to fund the ISS so it’s complete in time for us to dump it in the Pacific”?

  36. Stig O'Hara says at 2:44 pm, June 4th, 2008

    “PIGS IN SPAAAAAAAAAAACE!!!”….. sorry couldn’t pass up a gratuitous Muppet Show reference. Seemed appropriate.

  37. NotUrEvryDayWEzl says at 2:46 pm, June 4th, 2008

    Is this what John McCain meant when he said the government should be able to deliver water to dehydrated babies, etc?

  38. WadISay says at 2:49 pm, June 4th, 2008

    The ISS exists to perpetuate itself, in which respect it reminds me of The Great Frigging Wheel:

    Concave or convex,
    It could please either sex,
    And beat itself off in between.

  39. weirdiowasculpture says at 2:53 pm, June 4th, 2008

    Couldn’t they just hang their ass out the window like everybody else?

  40. Sean O says at 2:54 pm, June 4th, 2008

    Sniff, for the first time in my adult life, I’m proud to be an American.

  41. bitchincamaro says at 2:55 pm, June 4th, 2008
  42. CthuNHu says at 3:02 pm, June 4th, 2008

    ManchuCandidate: shortsshortsshorts:
    The space shitter is basically a vacuum that sucks and blows. It sucks out shit/piss/TP from around the astronaut’s uranus and blows the air out of the station through a vent to freeze dry stuff.

    Heck, why cant NASA just use the White House press corps?

  43. wallythepug says at 3:03 pm, June 4th, 2008

    Sure hope they took up more than just a plunger, or that was one expensive plumber service call (do they have butt cracks in space?)

  44. capitol-hillbilly says at 3:05 pm, June 4th, 2008

    they never should have let Mark Penn use their commode

  45. SayItWithWookies says at 3:06 pm, June 4th, 2008

    shortsshortsshorts: That’s just to wipe with.

  46. shortsshortsshorts says at 3:06 pm, June 4th, 2008

    CthuNHu: They can’t afford it. Didn’t you hear that the new Mars Rover is made out of what they call “recycled materials” a.k.a. WALNUTS’ many sets of artificial hips?

  47. Naked Bunny with a Whip says at 3:13 pm, June 4th, 2008

    Can the astronauts continue using the diapers if they’ve found that they enjoy them?

  48. Not_So_Much says at 3:22 pm, June 4th, 2008

    I am too old and unwise about the inter-tubes to know how to drop this in comments as a link:

    http://www.funnyhub.com/videos/pages/oops-i-crapped-my-pants.html

  49. ReelectTilden says at 3:22 pm, June 4th, 2008
  50. Doglessliberal says at 3:35 pm, June 4th, 2008

    phew, I am so relieved. Heh. Sorry.

    And WHO would want to go up to this Space Station? It is like a 1979 El Camino held together with duct tape.

  51. Scat…Hillz Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship, Klintonize. Its 8-year mission: to soil strange new worlds, to pee over new dreams and new aspirations, to boldly shit where no dem has shat before!”

  52. La dee dah. La dah dah dah…..

  53. NebraskashireGentry says at 4:54 pm, June 4th, 2008

    I feel bad for the astronauts because no matter what they accomplish up there (experiments with zero-gravity crystals? wtf?), the only thing they will be asked about upon reentry will be “the toilet situation”.

  54. Doglessliberal says at 4:55 pm, June 4th, 2008

    NebraskashireGentry: I always like the fruit-fly-mating-in-zero-gravity experiments.

  55. 1ofUS says at 6:38 pm, June 4th, 2008

    Sussemilch:
    For here
    Am I shitting in a tin can
    Farts before the turd
    Farting in the loo
    And making do-do

  56. NebraskashireGentry says at 7:25 pm, June 4th, 2008

    Doglessliberal: I’m glad they finally proved that, in space, vinegar and baking soda do not a volcano make…that’ll save my children much embarrassment at the lunar colony’s elementary school science fair.

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