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Green Movement, Bowel Movement, All Around the Town
By Riverboat in Flotsam and Jetsam
October 8, 2011

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Leave it to the Japanese to turn an engineering idea into an assembly line idea. A toilet maker in the Land of the Rising Sun – or should that be the Land of the Rising Moon? - launched the Toilet Bike Neo, a bike that runs on “biogas,” fuel converted from yesterday’s breakfast, lunch and dinner, and maybe a late-night leftover burrito, harvested directly from the driver who sits on the bike's toilet-styled seat. Recycling has truly made a full circle. The kind you see when you pull the handle on a flush toilet. Talk about getting more bang for your boo-boo!

The Green Movement turned a bowel movement into, well, movement. Even the Ty-D-Bowl man inside my toilet tank emitted an endorsement from his motorboat. I always wondered how he puttered around in there. Looks like corn and beans may be the best investment for the future. The only question for Japan is how to deal with Sumo wrestlers and the uneasy balance between fuel potential and fuel storage.

Give the driver plenty of room, folks. You sure as hell don't want a rear-end accident.