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bocaholly said
Can someone explain the toilet seat joke to me, please?
I wasn't sure how culturally-dependent that one would be.
Basically genuine mother-of-pearl (I don't know its name in other languages) is nice stuff if used in the right place in small quantities tastefully. But used too much and in plastic imitation - e.g. on toilet-seats, it's tacky, and we joke about it by calling it mother-of-toilet-seat.
I always wanted to be a juvenile delinquent but my parents wouldn't let me.

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Andrew Fryer said
bocaholly said
Can someone explain the toilet seat joke to me, please?I wasn't sure how culturally-dependent that one would be.
Basically genuine mother-of-pearl (I don't know its name in other languages) is nice stuff if used in the right place in small quantities tastefully. But used too much and in plastic imitation - e.g. on toilet-seats, it's tacky, and we joke about it by calling it mother-of-toilet-seat.
Ah... thanks. We have our own version of toilet seat kitch down here in South Florida:

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My violin teacher's toilet seat looks something like this:
BTW, your TIFs sometimes make your posts unreadable. Is that something you've done, or is there something I can do to make them load properly? Judging by the formatting of this post, it's the forum.
And so that I don't hijack this thread, there are some nice things here: -
http://www.floraparts.net/pro_.....038;bid=12
I quite like this one. I thought it was jade at first, but it's horn. I like the way the button matches the frog.
I always wanted to be a juvenile delinquent but my parents wouldn't let me.

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I like it, @Irv. My best schoolfriend's violin had a scroll carved like a bearded old man's head. Im pretty sure it was rare and expensive, but I think I mentioned it somewhere recently and received the sneer that it was common, cheap and tacky.
I always wanted to be a juvenile delinquent but my parents wouldn't let me.
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