Crap!

Oh, the things you learn from the Internet: According to the Scott Clog Clinic, Houston is the nation's fifth most clogged city. Yes, there apparently is a group that studies clogs, and yes, we are talking about clogged toilets. The news was released yesterday, National Plumber's Day (today is National Zucchini Bread Day, but no one's released information on that, oddly enough).

Scott, of course, released the list of the nation's most clogged cities as a chance to push its fast-dissolving toilet paper, which ostensibly helps reduce cloggage. Part of the problem — a bigger part, we bet, than what kind of toilet paper we use — is the crap Americans tend to flush down their toilets. The Clog Clinic found that 32 percent of people surveyed had flushed facial tissue down the crapper, 9 percent had flushed feminine products, 2 percent had flushed cat litter and 1 percent had flushed disposable diapers. Two percent of people said they had flushed an electronic device (cell phone, iPod, projection TV) and 1 percent say they've flushed money or keys down the toilet. Not on purpose, we hope.

FYI, the top 10 clogged cities are, in order: NYC, Miami, L.A., Philadelphia, Houston, Atlanta, Chicago, Portland (Ore.), Indianapolis and the Bay Area.

- Next time you're in San Antonio, check out the Toilet Seat Museum!