Funny bidness -- the Toilet Restaurant

The news has been particularly commodious this week. Among the highlights:

Sim Jae-Duck of Seoul, Korea is so serious about campaigning for clean restrooms for the world's needy that he is constructing a new $1.6 million manor in the shape of an enormous loo. Jae-Duck, founder of the World Toilet Association, will open the Toilet House to the public next month. Visitors can rent the home for a night for a mere $50,000, proceeds of which go to fund the Association's goal of providing toilets to those in need.

Theme restaurants may have finally reached their pinnacle (or bottomed out) in the Toilet Restaurant, a restaurant in a Taiwan spot that features toilets for seating and serves its noodle dishes in dog-dish sized ceramic toilet bowls. I'm hoping they don't have any chocolate desserts on the menu.

India is playing host this month to the seventh World Toilet Summit (WTS). Representatives from forty-plus countries will gather in New Delhi to track progress on their goal of providing sanitary toilets to the entire human population by 2025. According to the World Health Organization, as referenced by Reuters, 2.6 billion people currently have no access to a proper toilet. This does not include tourists wandering around Manhattan.

Finally, I can't adequately describe this flash game created by the World Toilet Association, other than to say that if you're up for a scatological challenge...