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As Alan Hamilton's item in The Times [15 June 1988, 3] reminds us, the BBC guidelines of the 1940s, since abandoned, were quite specific: “There is an absolute ban upon the following: jokes about lavatories, effeminacy in men, immorality of any kind, suggestive references to honeymoon couples, chambermaids, fig leaves, ladies' underwear, lodgers and commercial travellers.”
An unclear sense-development of this word is mapped out in the OED , but it seems to concede that the modern sense of lavatory originated at the start of this century: the (British) Army and Navy Stores catalogue of 1926 lists a lavatory paper-holder as one of its items, but it was probably earlier: The Illustrated London News reported in 1860 that each ward of the new Florence Nightingale School of Nursing had its own bathroom, lavatories and closet.
The same reaction is guaranteed by references to poofs (`homosexuals'), (big), boobs, lavatories, Y-fronts (`Jockey shorts'), and, especially, incontinence.
Only twenty years ago did those now ubiquitous and--depending on how one perceives them-- exuberantly eloquent or infuriatingly laconic logos begin to appear on highway and street signs; in terminals (do kilted Scots or slacks-clad women ever end up in the wrong lavatories?); computer screen displays; and instruction manuals for electr(on)ic gadgetry.