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In the sixteenth century, an Elizabethan courtier, Sir John Harrington, invented a water-closet with a flushing system and wrote a book on the subject entitled A Metamorphosis of Ajax, published in 1596.
In other words, if one does not know the date of the Flushing Remonstrance no amount of thinking, soul-searching, calculation, or any other mental activity is going to yield the correct response to the question, “What was the date of the Flushing Remonstrance?”
[From san ad in TV Hi-Lites (Flushing, New York), .
The word crap , however, is derived from the Old Dutch Krappe , according to Chambers Dictionary . One authority attributes the invention of the flushing WC to Joseph Bramah, in 1782; it is said that the quality of his work made his name a symbol of excellence and I have heard the expression, “That's a bramah,’ so used.
He fitted them together late at night, over the kitchen table in an undistinguished house on Utopia Parkway in Flushing, Queens, after his handicapped brother and a tiresome, widowed mother, with whom he shared the house, had gone to bed.