BorgCo are pleased to announce their latest home entertainment offering; a toilet roll holder with a model of the Sphinx mounted on top.
When the infrared sensors detect the presence of a toilet user, the eyes light up and the Sphinx then requests them to give their age. It then demands for "thee to answer my questions three" of a difficulty and content appropriate to the age of the user.
Voice recognition software analyzes the responses and if correct, releases the clutch on the roll; otherwise it waits until the room has been has been vacated for five minutes before resetting.
Guaranteed to break the ice at parties.
NB beware if asked your favourite colour.-- 8th of 7, Dec 09 2009 about that web-connection... http://verydemotiva...030732886049260.jpg [FlyingToaster, Dec 15 2009] I absolutely love this. I'd give it more +'s if I could.-- blissmiss, Dec 09 2009 Blue, no Yellow!-- kaz, Dec 09 2009 Yeah, I love it too. This would be funny in public cubicles, with everyone settled down, whispering frantically to their respective Sphinx.
Toilet attendants might do a side-line in riddles so as to help-out their charges should they find themselves in a tight spot.-- zen_tom, Dec 10 2009 Imagines Sphinx experiencing a rapid conversion to a model of Ozymandias-- xenzag, Dec 10 2009 Imagining the graffiti scrawled on a toilet wall: Look upon my works, and despair!-- zen_tom, Dec 10 2009 It's ok. I don't need any paper.I'm just going for a Jimmy Riddle.-- Jinbish, Dec 10 2009 KInd of like Cleopatra for the Day, or hour, or so. With specter in hand.-- blissmiss, Dec 10 2009 Probably better for biscuits tins ...-- Aristotle, Dec 10 2009 You just know he's in denile about the bidet.-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Dec 10 2009 if its cruel to puppies there will be trouble.-- po, Dec 10 2009 //Voice recognition software analyzes the responses//
All good, unless you just need to blow your nose. "Whide. Whide. WHIDE dammid!-- shudderprose, Dec 11 2009 Zero - Resistance is Futile .....-- 8th of 7, Dec 11 2009 Or "Britain's got ExLax" and the viewers get to vote on who gets the easy questions from the Sphinx..-- random_patenter_syndrome_victim, Dec 11 2009 + (but I don't speak Egyptian)-- xandram, Dec 11 2009 //if its cruel to puppies there will be trouble. — po, Dec 10 2009// Especially if the puppy starts chewing up the roll of toilet paper.-- outloud, Dec 11 2009 It could be a cute Sphinx puppy (kitten ? cub ? chick ? calf ? Anyone know what a baby Sphinx is called ?)-- 8th of 7, Dec 11 2009 Sphincter, An Egyptian muscle dog.-- outloud, Dec 11 2009 OK, you get my vote, but my 8 year old's way too smart for this, but still has not learned proper judgment in TP consumption, so there's a minor flaw in the design there...-- oxen crossing, Dec 13 2009 If you buy the top-of-the-range model it has heuristic software and a web connection for question library updates.-- 8th of 7, Dec 13 2009 Nice link, [FT].-- 8th of 7, Dec 15 2009 Good thing we are already in the bathroom, cause that link just scared the shit outta me!!!-- blissmiss, Dec 15 2009 random, halfbakery