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As often happens in the genre of contemporary lore, jokes become told as this really happened tales. The presence of a powerful punchline is a sure sign of the origin of this legend -- in real life, people don't come up with the perfect rejoinder on the spot. The First time I've seen one framed anecdote appears on a printed novelty card of the 1940s, but no matter how old the legend, it can always be modernized. Here's an example of such modernization from 1994, wherein the paint has become superglue: The dropped stretcher motif (porters laugh so hard they drop the patient, causing further injury) completes two other legends, the Hind-Lick Maneuver (dog cold-noses naked man in his genitals) and the venerable Blew Moon (wife throws flammable substance into toilet, unsuspecting husband seats himself on the throne, lights a cigarette, and things blow up). Update: In November 2005, Bob Dougherty instigated a lawsuit against a Home Depot in Louisville, Colorado, over the failure of its employees to free him in a timely manner when he sat on a glue-laden toilet seat in October 2003. Doubt has been cast on the authenticity of his claim by a Nederland, Colorado, town official who maintains Dougherty reported a similar incident in the town's visitors center bathroom in 2004. In 2013 an incident of a superglued toilet seat was reported in Commerce, Georgia. At the Bank's Crossing Home Depot, an unnamed woman had to be removed by emergency medical services personnel from a toilet seat in that store's restroom. The woman was taken to a Gainesville hospital for treatment. Upon investigation, all the toilet seats in that restroom were discovered to have a glue-like substance upon them, and a brown paper sack containing a bottle of Loctite GO2 glue was found in that room.
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