20 questions today, 4/16/2010

[TheUnabeefer]

I am guessing they are gonna riff on Cinematic Titanic's live riff of East Meets Watts.

[MontyServo]

Sweet, I might actually be back from lunch in time today!!!

Fun day:  First, I single-handedly flood half the building at work, and now a 20Q game!!!

You do know you are not supposed to use that much toilet paper.

What really happened was the flushing part went fine.... but the REFILL part just wouldn't stop.  And it wasn't just a subtle calm refill... but had the pressure of someone blasting a firehose directly into a toilet bowl, causing an upward blast of water in a sorta fountain style thing.

Within a minute, the entire men's room was flooded... within five(5) minutes, the entire hallway was flooded... and the plumbers gave an estimate of 45 minutes until they were going to show up.

I'll let you imagine how much more flooded in that 45 minutes.  It's a wonder no one bothered to turn off the water though.

I was right?

Your building doesn't have any sort of on site janitor or maintenance man?  He should have been able to turn off the water at the commode.  Even in the case of a massive failure like a water line breaking, there should be shut off valves to isolate the restroom.  Worst case, you can kill the entire building.

I've seen the same thing happen at the hotel I work at.  Guy goes to the bathroom in the middle of the night, flushes toilet and goes back to bed, not realizing the toilet is overflowing.  Since it is the middle of the night, nobody notices until the water is leaking down to the lobby from the 14th floor.

[TheUnabeefer]

Sweet, I might actually be back from lunch in time today!!!

Fun day:  First, I single-handedly flood half the building at work, and now a 20Q game!!!

You do know you are not supposed to use that much toilet paper.

What really happened was the flushing part went fine.... but the REFILL part just wouldn't stop.  And it wasn't just a subtle calm refill... but had the pressure of someone blasting a firehose directly into a toilet bowl, causing an upward blast of water in a sorta fountain style thing.

Within a minute, the entire men's room was flooded... within five(5) minutes, the entire hallway was flooded... and the plumbers gave an estimate of 45 minutes until they were going to show up.

I'll let you imagine how much more flooded in that 45 minutes.  It's a wonder no one bothered to turn off the water though.

I was right?

Your building doesn't have any sort of on site janitor or maintenance man?  He should have been able to turn off the water at the commode.

I've seen the same thing happen at the hotel I work at.  Guy goes to the bathroom in the middle of the night, flushes toilet and goes back to bed, not realizing the toilet is overflowing.  Since it is the middle of the night, nobody notices until the water is leaking down to the lobby from the 14th floor.

We have a maintenance guy... well, we have a few, but the one who was here today is the young kid who doesn't quite speak English, and wasn't quite sure what to do.  Poor kid actually looked quite overwhelmed.... probably thought "I'll just go sweep things up today and then go home" and then had to deal with a waterpark.

[MontyServo]

Sweet, I might actually be back from lunch in time today!!!

Fun day:  First, I single-handedly flood half the building at work, and now a 20Q game!!!

You do know you are not supposed to use that much toilet paper.

What really happened was the flushing part went fine.... but the REFILL part just wouldn't stop.  And it wasn't just a subtle calm refill... but had the pressure of someone blasting a firehose directly into a toilet bowl, causing an upward blast of water in a sorta fountain style thing.

Within a minute, the entire men's room was flooded... within five(5) minutes, the entire hallway was flooded... and the plumbers gave an estimate of 45 minutes until they were going to show up.

I'll let you imagine how much more flooded in that 45 minutes.  It's a wonder no one bothered to turn off the water though.

I was right?

Your building doesn't have any sort of on site janitor or maintenance man?  He should have been able to turn off the water at the commode.

I've seen the same thing happen at the hotel I work at.  Guy goes to the bathroom in the middle of the night, flushes toilet and goes back to bed, not realizing the toilet is overflowing.  Since it is the middle of the night, nobody notices until the water is leaking down to the lobby from the 14th floor.

We have a maintenance guy... well, we have a few, but the one who was here today is the young kid who doesn't quite speak English, and wasn't quite sure what to do.  Poor kid actually looked quite overwhelmed.... probably thought "I'll just go sweep things up today and then go home" and then had to deal with a waterpark.

It is easy to panic in a situation like that, if you don't know what to do.  He probably could have shut off the water supply right at the commode.  If that is broken, then there should be a shut off valve somewhere that kills the entire restroom.  If all else fails, just shut off the water to the entire building.

But that stuff should be first week training for that guy.  Where and how to shut off water and electric (and gas if you need to.)

[TheUnabeefer]

It is easy to panic in a situation like that, if you don't know what to do.  He probably could have shut off the water supply right at the commode.  If that is broken, then there should be a shut off valve somewhere that kills the entire restroom.  If all else fails, just shut off the water to the entire building.

But that stuff should be first week training for that guy.  Where and how to shut off water and electric (and gas if you need to.)

One would think.... I think the main maintenance guys have the day off (like all the management does today) and he's just kinda like the apprentice janitor or something.  I really have no idea.

It was fun though!!!  Wooo!!! Flood!!!!

[RVR II]

Sooo...
Is this 20Q's have to do with Floods er something cause I don't know if Avatar had floods in it cause I never saw the movie

[Scribblesense]

It is easy to panic in a situation like that, if you don't know what to do.  He probably could have shut off the water supply right at the commode.  If that is broken, then there should be a shut off valve somewhere that kills the entire restroom.  If all else fails, just shut off the water to the entire building.

But that stuff should be first week training for that guy.  Where and how to shut off water and electric (and gas if you need to.)

One would think.... I think the main maintenance guys have the day off (like all the management does today) and he's just kinda like the apprentice janitor or something.  I really have no idea.

It was fun though!!!  Wooo!!! Flood!!!!

"Oh my god, it's their sewage! Hooray!"
- Bill (?) from the Two Towers Riff

Ooh, maybe they're finally doing Return of the King! One can dream (and have their dreams mercilessly crushed)!

[MontyServo]

It was fun though!!!  Wooo!!! Flood!!!!

Yay!  Poo water!   

Whenever we have an overflow that leaks down into a lower room, we always tell that person that a pipe broke.

Nobody wants to hear that poo water is leaking into their luggage.

[gonzodamus]

Considering the DVD that comes out on April 22nd, I think this is going to be one of those New Moon style 20Qs. 

[RVR II]

Considering the DVD that comes out on April 22nd, I think this is going to be one of those New Moon style 20Qs. 

Ditto!

[Scribblesense]

Considering the DVD that comes out on April 22nd, I think this is going to be one of those New Moon style 20Qs. 

The extended-extended version of Return of the King, with pop-up annotations, 3D compatibility and optional pig Latin language track is coming out on the 22nd? Why didn't I hear of this sooner?   :sarcasm:

[TheUnabeefer]

It was fun though!!!  Wooo!!! Flood!!!!

Yay!  Poo water!   

Whenever we have an overflow that leaks down into a lower room, we always tell that person that a pipe broke.

Nobody wants to hear that poo water is leaking into their luggage.

Well the poo part was gone... this was the refill water, so relatively clean.

I am thinking maybe they will be riffing 2012, but that's because I just was forced to watch it again.

[gonzodamus]

It was fun though!!!  Wooo!!! Flood!!!!

Yay!  Poo water!   

Whenever we have an overflow that leaks down into a lower room, we always tell that person that a pipe broke.

Nobody wants to hear that poo water is leaking into their luggage.

"You know what they call poo gas in Scotland?"
"No, what?"
"Crud vapors"

[MontyServo]

Bill Corbett just posted a picture on Twitter.

http://yfrog.com/bgatzj

I wonder if he is trying to give us a clue?  Or throw us off the trail?  Or maybe he was just bored and it has nothing to do with 20Q's?

[JackTheRIFFER]

That was just me and him on vacation last week.