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City Council Okays Dual-Flush Toilets
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Elyssa Goldberg
Published Oct 14, 2010
Modified Oct 14, 2010
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Yesterday we brought you a video of 5 jumbo hot dogs making it to the bowels of our sewage system via super toilets with dual-flush capabilities. Today, the Daily News affirms the City Council has made it official: No longer do we have to let it mellow if it's yellow or flush it down if it's brown to be earth conscious. Since the lifting of the ban on dual-flushers, we have buttons to conserve water for us.
As dual-flush enthusiasts everywhere rejoice, we can almost see a shyer Council Speaker Christine Quinn blushing as she talks potty, "One button is for a long flush, the other is for a short flush. You would get to choose, depending on the nature of the transaction that was done, er, completed as it relates to the toilet." All it has to do is pass through Bloomberg first.
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